Lover Come Back

Director: Delbert Mann Delbert Mann

Overview

"Rock Hudson and Doris Day team up again for the 1961 comedy Lover Come Back. Featuring the duo as a pair of rival advertising executives who fall in love amid their bitter and relentless competing, the film was directed by Delbert Mann and is featured on this straightforward DVD offering from Universal. The Best Original Screenplay nominee is presented in widescreen with its English soundtrack mastered in Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. In lieu of any commentary tracks, deleted scenes, or other bonus goodies, the disc is rounded out by optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles. This DVD is also available as part of Universal's Rock Hudson and Doris Day Romance Collection which also includes Pillow Talk and Send Me No Flowers."

Product Details

Release Date:	04/06/2004
UPC:	0025192121425
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	NR
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	25,770

Special Features

Closed Caption; [None specified]

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Doris Day	Carol Templeton
Rock Hudson	Jerry Webster/Doctor Linus Tyler
Tony Randall	Peter Ramsay
Edie Adams	Rebel Davis
Jack Oakie	J. Paxton Miller
Jack Kruschen	Dr. Linus Tyler
Ann B. Davis	Millie
Joe Flynn	Hadley
Howard St. John	Brackett
Karen Norris	Kelly
Jack Albertson	Fred
Charles Watts	Charlie
Donna Douglas	Deborah
Ward Ramsey	Hodges
John Litel	Board Member
Chet Stratton	Leonard
Mina Vaughn	Party Girl
Barbara Frederick	Party Girl
Nelson Leigh	Northcross
Richard Deacon	Dr. Melnick
Hilda Plowright	Cleaning Woman
Kathleen Mulqueen	Cleaning Woman
Joan Patrick	Ramsey Receptionist
Al Hodge	Bass Player
Billy Benedict	Musician
Ted Bessell	Elevator Operator
Barbara Dorothy Clarke	Dancer
Frank De Vol	Composer
Fletcher Allen	Fur Truck Driver
Russ Bender	Gates, Private Detective
Nicky Blair	Pianist
Barbara Clark	Dancer
Ray Daley	Martin
Joan Kelly	Alice
Nolan Leary	Judge Raskob
Frank London	Taxicab Driver
John Morley	George
Nelson Olmsted	District Attorney Wesson
Actor	Actor

Technical Credits

Stanley Shapiro

Paul Henning

Delbert Mann	Director
Stanley Shapiro	Screenwriter,Producer
Paul Henning	Screenwriter
Robert Arthur	Executive Producer
Martin Melcher	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The second of their signature trio of romantic comedies, Lover Come Back (1961) mixes the sexual sparring between Doris Day's ethical career woman Carol and Rock Hudson's scheming Lothario Jerry with a lightly humorous satire of the advertising business. Taking on the ultimate 1950s profession, and 1950s sexual mores, Jerry's efforts to outwit "undersexed" (but divinely dressed) business competitor Carol with an accidentally successful ad campaign for non-existent product VIP and an identity subterfuge send up both consumer desire and male-female sex roles. As with Pillow Talk (1959), the 1980s revelation of Hudson's sexuality adds an extra edge to Jerry's feigned sexual innocence and fears of impotence (not to mention his walk through a lobby wearing only a woman's fur coat), but the joke's already on the notion that men always pursue It and women shouldn't, as Day muses in song, "Surrender." Tony Randall's worthless advertising scion is the ultimate example of both corporate vacuity and privileged weakness, as he unknowingly sets Jerry's VIP campaign in motion to assert his negligible power. Snappily directed by Delbert Mann, Lover Come Back became another Day-Hudson hit, and earned an Oscar nomination for Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning's screenplay.