I just purchased from Goodwill a brand-new sealed Doris Day & Rock Hudson 1960s movie entitled something along the lines of "Don't Send Me No Flowers" for only 47 cents. Paul Lynde was excellent and starred a man who sold cemetary plots. And Doris Day was cute but Elizabeth Montgomery would have been so much better. Doris' hair kinda bothers me.
I don't know. At that time in the 60s Doris Day was the number one female actress and she and Rock Hudson had great chemistry as did the movie's with Tony Randall. I couldn't imagine anybody else but Doris Day with Rock Hudson. She was a great actress. Paul Lynde is funny in every movie he is in.
"Flowers" is the result of the success of "Pillow Talk", a sophisticated for its time (1959), witty comedy that starred (together for the first time) Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter and a host of well-known film & TV supporting players of the time.
It was so successful (well-reviewed and a hit at the box office, which is all that counts in Hollywood!), chiefly because of the palpable chemistry between the leads, that it spawned a few more movies trying to recapture the same lightening in a bottle: "Lover Come Back", "Send Me No Flowers", also, "Mover Over Darling" and "Thrill of it All" with James Garner ("Maverick", "Rockford Files") replacing Hudson, to similar but lesser effect.
While they all have their charms and "Thrill" is one of my faves of the bunch, "Pillow Talk" remains the "cream of the crop" and certainly the most charming, funny and well-regarded of the bunch.
They're all available on DVD, some have begun to come out on Blu-Ray which is fantastic as the improvement on an HD widescreen is phenomenal and the digital surround sound rivals that of real movie theaters (if you have the setup, of course!).
Universal recently release PT on BD with Digibook packaging which includes a 40-page booklet of info and pics of the film, several new bonus features including a new 22-minute featurette as well as being remastered for High-Definition Widescreen (2.35 ratio) and DTS-HD digital sound.