Doris Day has some advice for President Bush (She's GOP pro-Bush...)

LA Daily News.com ^ | 06-24-04

[veronica]

Doris Day chatted with President George W. Bush about their mutual love of dogs when he phoned to congratulate the iconic performer and animal welfare advocate on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The Prez told Doris that he's an animal person, and talked about his Scottish terrier Barney and about the critters on his ranch.

And then Day advised the president that he'd get more votes if he'd quit hunting.

She tells us that her sentiments about Bush's hunting won't stop her from voting for him. "I'm pulling for him every step of the way," she makes clear.

Day, who starred with Ronald Reagan in two films, remained friends with the Gipper through his presidency. Like him, she switched from Democrat to staunch Republican - part of a Hollywood social set she recalls including Jimmy and Gloria Stewart, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and Jack and Mary Benny.

She remembers once quizzing Reagan as to what he'd done with his giant sheep dog, Lucky, who had disappeared from the White House. Reagan sent her a photo of Lucky at the wheel of an old red Jeep full of dogs on his California ranch with the message, "Look who's in the driver's seat." She says Reagan's recent death was hard to take.

Day, who turned 80 in April and who does not travel by air, opted to stay home in Carmel when the Medal of Freedom presentations were made Wednesday. Still, she's deeply affected. She broke into tears when talking with us about the honor. "To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of a tribute from my country ... I love this country so much ..."

Asked whether she'd ever act again, the top box-office movie actress of her time says, "You never know. It's up to God. If I were meant to, I'd be led to it. I pray about everything that comes to me. That way I don't have any hassles in my mind."

[the OlLine Rebel]

In all fairness, I think what is meant by "B actor" is that they top out in "B movies".

Realistically, Reagan just didn't crack it into all-time great movies that are remembered by millions over time. Nor much in movies that made it big at the time, either. (IOW, really popular movies at the box office.)

[4everontheRight]

Oh and do you remember (I can't remember which movie) where she had (dang! I can not remember her name...she had red hair and played Bewitched's mother) her friend who worked in the cafeteria? It was like one of those old ones with the people behind the vending machines...for lack of a better way of describing it..I think they called them an automat?

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[GeorgeW23225]

She is a member of the Bel-Aire Presbyterian Church, and has been for a long, long, time.......

[texasbluebell]

One of my favorite DD movies: "Julie", made in 1956.

Worth searching for if you haven't seen it yet. Fairly unknown movie, pretty intense, probably hard to find in local video stores though.

link to amazon

[MeekOneGOP]

http://funkin.net/sites/dorisday/film.html

The following is a complete list of the 39 films in which Doris starred.

1948 Romance On The High Seas
1949 It's A Great Feeling
1949 My Dream Is Yours (20K b&w movie still)
1950 Tea For Two
1950 West Point Story
1950 Young Man With A Horn
1951 I'll See You In My Dreams
1951 Lullaby Of Broadway
1951 On Moonlight Bay (55K signed colour poster)
1951 Starlift
1951 Storm Warning
1952 April In Paris (37K b&w movie still)
1952 The Winning Team
1953 By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
1953 Calamity Jane
1954 Lucky Me
1954 Young At Heart (11K b&w movie still)
1955 Love Me Or Leave Me
1956 Julie
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1957 The Pajama Game
1958 Teacher's Pet
1958 The Tunnel Of Love
1959 It Happened To Jane/Twinkle and Shine
1959 Pillow Talk
1960 Midnight Lace
1960 Please Don't Eat The Daisies
1961 Lover Come Back
1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo/Jumbo
1962 That Touch Of Mink
1963 Move Over Darling (16K colour movie still)
1963 The Thrill Of It All
1964 Send Me No Flowers
1965 Do Not Disturb
1966 The Glass Bottom Boat (11K b&w picture)
1967 The Ballad Of Josie
1967 Caprice
1968 Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?
1968 With Six You Get Eggroll

[Howlin]

She made "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" with David Niven.

Ha! I was just telling my stepdaughters about how she put her youngest son in a play pen with another one stacked on top of it when they lived in that apartment in NYC!

And I told them that all he could say was "Co-kee-cola."

[EagleMamaMT]

I love those two musicals! I've been intending to look for them on video or DVD but haven't done it yet. I guess Doris Day is about my all-time favorite female movie star. I find myself watching her movies over and over and I never tire of them. Another great movie musical I love was "Calamity Jane" with Howard Keel.

[texasbluebell]

That could be the case.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh yeah. I really like James Garner. "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files" were great. His movies too.

My post #126 here has links to a few more of Doris Day pics/movies.

[ZULU]

Maybe YOU should learn something.

Anti-hunting advocates are often anti-gun advocates and just because she is supporting Bush doesn't necessarily mean she is a conservative.

[ZULU]

Oh??


And I guess I have no right to express opinions contrary to yours or Ms> Day's???

[ZULU]

No. I don't drink coffee.

Do you? Coffee nerves getting to you?

[Howlin]

I love that movie! It was on not long ago on AMC........I just cannot stop myself from watching them!

[Peach]

See - all the best people love Doris Day movies.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Howlin]

We were just talking over the weekend about the fact that if we'd never seen certain movies, we practically wouldn't be able to SPEAK because we use so many of the phrases from the movies in real life!

Arthur
Blazing Saddles
Major League

I brought up Please Don't Eat the Daisies, because I say "Co-kee-cola" all the time! Now my grandkids say it!

And, of course, now that we have grandkids, Nemo is another one we have seen, so everybody goes around saying "Mine. Mine. Mine." all the time!

[cyncooper]

That movie is so great...the Happy Soap one we've been talking about.

James Garner is an OB and Arlene Francis is his patient who is pregnant. An "older mom" and it was quite a surprise for her and her husband. When Doris and James have dinner at their house the husband's father decides Doris would make the perfect spokesperson for "Happy Soap", but her new career throws a wrench into her marriage.

They also have two kids and a funny housekeeper.

It's adorable---and smart and funny, too.

[Howlin]

That's the Reagans church, too.

[bad company]

Just don't usually see your posts so viceral.