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Today's feature is a classic comedy featuring one of my favorite movie couples: James Garner and Doris Day. Garner's a successful obstetrician whose wife(Miss Day) becomes a star of soap TV commercials and the chaos that ensues. Carl Reiner's quite funny as a hammy TV actor while Kym Karath(Gretl from "The Sound of Music") is as cute as can be as Garner and Day's daughter. Scripted by Reiner("Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid") and directed by Norman Jewison("Fiddler on the Roof"), this is a funny, clean comedy and my pick for the best of Doris Days 1960s comedies. It's also interesting to watch from a modern-day perspective in that the film's perpsective(much to the annoyance of feminists and collectivists) says that if the family can afford for the wife to be a stay-at-home mom with the kids, it's best that she does so. Not a politically correct message by any means. Enjoy.
1 posted on 04/14/2013 12:51:05 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

Ping for later...:)

Never saw it...


2 posted on 04/14/2013 1:01:28 PM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Robert Duvall)
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To: ReformationFan

Unfortunately my mother gave me James Garner’s autobiography to read. He’s a flaming Democrat & a jerk besides. He’s always been one of my favorites, but no more. We watched another of his movies not too long ago & I just couldn’t enjoy it.


3 posted on 04/14/2013 1:17:01 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: ReformationFan

Then for a super dessert you can catch one of the best films ever, “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, on TCM at 8:00 EST.......


9 posted on 04/14/2013 2:29:55 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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