Apart from a couple of well known titles, but I just scored a 14 film set on blu-ray for less than $30, so I'm working through them.
Question: Was Doris Day considered attractive? I can't remember ever really seeing her before, though I of course know the name.
Watching this now, she seems (while hardly unattractive) very plain and, well, very freckly.
Yes she's usually attractive but is playing a rather plain woman in this.
That's part of the fun of this film, that vacationing family caught up in a big 'intrigue'.
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What's attractive is, of course, always entirely subjective. But the answer to your question is that she generally was.
It should be noted, however, that her image for most of her career was not one of glamour, in the way of a Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly or Marlene Dietrich. Her persona was rather that of the small-town girl with a "natural" look and vaguely tomboyish quality, and indeed Day herself detested excessive cosmetization in the form of heavy "glamour" makeup and hairstyles (into which she was forced in her first few films, and to which she contemptuously referred as her "lacquered look").
And although she appeared only as a blonde in all her feature films, she was a natural redhead; hence, the freckles. And most among her audiences found it all very appealing.
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As your question is more about Doris Day, then you should have titled your post 'New To Doris Day'.
To answer your question, Doris Day was considered attractive woman at that time, and she was an attractive one.
Hitchcock is an auteur, his movies have a style unique to him. I hope you like him as much I always have. His renown is well deserved. My personal favorite Hitchcock are Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Psycho. Pay no attention to the trolls here who love to dis major movie titles just to get a response.
shareThe only movie I've seen of his that I haven't liked is Vertigo. It's a visually stunning film, of course, but something's always bothered me about it. Maybe it's that it seems so "stylized" that it almost seems more like one of the matte paintings he used than a dynamic film. Of course, that's one reason many love it.
I just saw The Man Who Knew Too Much for the first time at a local theater (they do a "Hitchcocktober" series of a number of his films) and liked it very much. Maybe not as much as some of his others, but it was still a good suspense film.
Other than this and the films you've named, I've also seen The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Marnie, Rope, and Strangers on a Train. Any suggestions on what I might watch next? The other movies the theater will be showing (besides ones you mentioned) are Notorious, Suspicion, and To Catch a Thief.
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I'd watch Suspicion, then To Catch a Thief, then Notorious of the ones they're showing. North By Northwest is a must for everybody not just Hitch fans. I don't remember the ones I've mentioned already but Psycho is a must, too.
shareDoris Day was the American "girl next door." Very attractive in a very wholesome way, that was her image.
What an odd question. She was the top film star several years in a row in the late 50s-early 60s.