Pillow Talk
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| Pillow Talk | |
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 Pillow Talk DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Michael Gordon |
| Produced by | Ross Hunter Martin Melcher |
| Written by | Russell Rouse Maurice Richlin Stanley Shapiro Clarence Greene |
| Starring | Doris Day Rock Hudson |
| Music by | Frank De Vol |
| Distributed by | Universal International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 7, 1959 (USA) |
| Running time | 98 min. |
| Language | English |
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Pillow Talk is a 1959 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a man and woman who share a telephone line and grow to hate each other, and then start to love each other. It features Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter and Nick Adams.
The movie was written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene. It was directed by Michael Gordon.
It won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Doris Day), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Thelma Ritter), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
This is the first of three movies in which Day, Hudson and Randall all starred. The other two are Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers. Elements from the plots of these films, particularly Pillow Talk, were parodied in the 2003 comedy Down With Love, with Renée Zellweger in the Doris Day role, Ewan McGregor in the Rock Hudson, and David Hyde Pierce as the Tony Randall character.
At one point, there is a rather oblique reference to the possibility that Rock Hudson's character may be gay (although he clearly isn't). This is rather ironic, given that Hudson was gay, but this was not generally known at the time.
