Pillow Talk

Ross Hunter wrote that after he made this film, no theatre managers wanted to book it. Popular movie themes at the time were war films, westerns, and spectacles. Hunter was told by the big movie chains that sophisticated comedies like this movie went out with William Powell. They also believed that Doris Day and Rock Hudson were things of the past and had been overtaken by newer stars. Hunter persuaded Sol Schwartz, who owned the Palace Theatre in New York, to book the film for a two-week run, and it was a smash hit. The public had been starved for romantic comedy, and theatre owners who had previously turned down Hunter now had to deal with him on HIS terms.

A party line phone would not ring if any phone on the line was off the hook. To call another phone on the same line, a special code was dialed, then the phone was hung up which would cause the originating phone to start ringing. When the phone stopped ringing, the caller would know that the other party had answered. This is not how Brad does it.

As Doris Day sings 'Pillow Talk' over the closing credits, the film finishes with 'the end' on two horizontal pillows followed by 'not quite', 'not quite', 'not quite', 'not quite' stacked vertically on four pillows.

Featured in The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (1971)