"This film was chosen by Ross Hunter, the producer of her hit comedy, “Pillow Talk.” Playing the role in the film had a great effect on her physically. As the expert she is, she tried to develop a mental image of the woman she was playing and the part became very real to her. She said, “I became that woman to the best of my ability. To create the fear which the character I played had to project, I re-created the fear in myself which I had once felt in my own life. I relived it. It was painful and upsetting.” In one particular point in the emotional climax of the film, Doris has a very dramatic scene on a descending staircase. She says, “I wasn’t acting hysterical, I was hysterical, so at the end of the scene I collapsed in a real faint.” Production of the film had to be suspended for a few days. http://www.dorisday.net/midnight_lace.html
Doris, I have read, was thinking about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband and father of her only child- who beat her in the stomach and threw her across the room, almost causing her to have a miscarriage. .
okay--now i must see it again! i have seen it a couple of times, but it has been years... there are certain things about it that remind me of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone... the creepiness of thinking you are being followed...
Re; unflattering, nonsensical, Rock Hudson dominated remarks; I rarely comment on posts not complementary to subjects I have posted (which are few)- but suppose, just suppose that by some outside chance Doris’ secretary drew her attention to FR and this post about her, (as some have their secretaries do because they want to keep up on what’s being said about them- and I’ve read that she’s a staunch Conservative and reads and participates in some sites.)
Is this really what we would want her to surmise about what we think of this fine Conservative super star?
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