It was her first time seeing a Rock Hudson film and she refered to his looks as "the ugly younger brother of Cary Grant." Now, I LOVE Cary Grant but what she said was downright sacrilege!! Haha It's all in good fun, but seriously- I have never heard "ugly" used in the same sentence as Rock Hudson!!
Love this movie- one of the best romantic comedies of all time :-D
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
I can see the resemblence between the two but I couldn't say one was uglier! Generally I probably prefer Cary because he has that sarcastic wit but in Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson is just sexy as hell. The phone calls where he is playing up to Jan are just delicious!
This is one of my fave DD movies (heck, it's one of my favourite ever movies) and they make a gorgeous couple.
I'd be interested to hear who your sister thinks is attractive. Ugly people fall in love and get married all the time. I guess there is someone out there for everyone.
BTW: I think Rock Hudson is one of the all-time best looking men ever!
I love Cary Grant and think he was extremely good looking, stylish, charming, deft comedian (and whatever else you might like to add) but Rock Hudson looked like a Greek god.
Apropos of that, I remember being amused in the movie "Giant". Here was Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, both of whom looked like they stepped down from Mt Olympus, and their son was played by Dennis Hopper. Those genes certainly skipped a generation.
I think Cary was absolutely gorgeous. But I think Rock was a perfect specimen of a man from head to toe and everything in between. If you asked a computer to produce a photo of the perfect man, it would produce a picture of Rock Hudson.
I heard an apropo line spoken in the third of the Rock Hudson - Doris Day films today; Send Me No Flowers (1964). When the character played by Clint Walker runs into old flame Doris Day he makes a comment when introduced to her husband played by Rock Hudson that he Clint Walker always thought she would marry a Cary Grant type. I guess that was supposed to be funny - maybe there was an ongoing comparison between the two men at the time. I think actually saying a Rock Hudson type would have been funnier.
Huge Cary Grant fan. The weirdest thing happened to me while watching this. No exaggeration I literally forgot what Grant looked like while watching Hudson. It was the strangest thing. Any other actor I could think of, I could picture. Not Cary. Spoooky….