Shaking the Blues Away 

Judy was better !

​@@davidvack4382 And you're worse, much worse.

Nobody cares!​@@davidvack4382

This film established her as an actress and not just a pretty singer. Her range is surprising. She finally had a good script to work with.

She's*

an inter-national one!!!!!

Any time you see Helen Rose in the opening credits as costume designer, drop everything and watch that movie!

@Ronald McFondle the prettiness is her personality and warmth that she shows in all her movies that makes her special to me

I second the motion. Modern "music" is just a lot of blaring ear-splitting noise!

I'm proud of my step-mom, Isobel Lennart, who wrote the screenplay and my Dad, John Harding, \who played Ziegfield in the film. This is a great number - Dorris Day's mom even backed us a Chrismas cake. Thanks for putting it up Shaquille!

@@jbharding if you are still alive,hear this: the best staged Ziegfeld-type number ever done at MGM. take that, Ann Miller, and those part of that labored, lugubrious Great Ziegfeld film of 1936. this was awesomely good, thrilling, so very good, good, good.

@@richardlee8495 Richard, first off I am happy to tell you that I am still very much alive. On behalf of my wonderful stepmother, Isobel Lennart, I thank you for your wonderful and good comment regarding her film. I agree also that Ann Miller although very talented, beautiful and bright seemed, to me, to be more that a bit over exuberant in her very difficult (technically) dancing, but Love Me or Leave me was a great movie musically and by any other standard.

@@jbharding glad to hear you are very much alive, John. and thank you for responding. and your father played Ziegfeld on the stage in Funny Girl? i did see it, and recall a very handsome, refined man in the part. do you take after him? and your stepmother, lest we forget, did a splendidly good screenplay for Love Me or Leave Me, and was indispensable to the success of Funny Girl. don't you agree, Ms. Streisand? Ms. Streisand?? R

@@richardlee8495 My father was a very handsome, refined man, but, unfortunately, he did not play Ziegfeld on the stage, ever. In Love Me or Leave Me, he played Greg Trent, a Ziegfeld-type character. Dad said that in one scene Cagney manhandled him - sort of. Similar to Hitchcock appearing about all of his films, Dad was in quite a few Isobel Lennart films. She was not a bad connection for dear old Dad to have. Eons ago, back in the early fifties, Dad, decided to retry his earlier effort at being an actor, but he ran into a roadblock - the name, "John Harding" had already been taken. Back in the days only one actor could have a name. There was another John Harding! Driving back home to Malibu, Dad told me what had happened. "Too bad," I said. Whereupon, Dad, said that he had checked the other John Harding out - and that John Harding had the exact same home address as we did. Yes! I was the other John Harding! I had recently made a commercial for Coca Cola, and, for that, I got registered as "John Harding." As we drove on, Dad looked at me and asked that I release the name to him. "Well, I guess..." I said. Dad gave me a stern look and said, "You would like to keep your weekly five dollar allowance, wouldn't you?" So that is how Dad got his name back. Now, there are many John Hardings in IMDB, not just Dad and me. A bit of move history...

She is my all time favorite star!

She was so multi talented and beautiful. And from what I understand she was a lovely person.

Is like to see Monroe try to do this.

So true!!!!!!

I love the appreciative comments Decades later no one compares !

Agree, so could Judy ! Without the cheesecake!

Love her the best ever

I have the original LP

Oscar worthy. And a great movie. Probably Miss Day’s greatest role!

@@ernestbennett376 calamity jane

This film is available on DVD via Amazon and is also available in HD format.

Doris Day always put on a good performance and she lived a good long life.

I agree and I’m 13

I totally agree. (15 y old) :)

Believe me some of us do. I’m sixteen and many of my friends still appreciate the talent of old Hollywood movies and stars. We aren’t all ignorant like the older people like to think.

Marvelous costuming.

According to her bio, while she was laid up in bed recovering, she started singing along with the radio out of boredom, and discovered a talent she didn't know she had. Life takes strange turns.

Yeah, I love that!

@@gulmerton2394 I bet you do

Cliche yes but the great thing about this number is that it's a pretty accurate representation of a Ziegfeld show from the 1920s. Besides Walt Disney florenz Ziegfeld was one of just a few are the greatest entertainment producers that ever lived he always set the bar and push the envelope even in the earliest parts of the 20th century

much better

Nothing and nobody beats Anne Miller but great just the same

@@williamf4544 How can compare...Doris better voice, Ann better tap dancer...Doris sexier, sorry Ann fans...Ann was just great with tap dancing.

That's why one of the production photos from this number was featured as the cover of the Columbia LP soundtrack recording.

@@williamf4544 there's a reason Anne Miller is alone on the stage, because she can hold her own. Much prefer the Anne Miller Easter Parade Version. :)

He received his final of three Oscar nominations for this role. Too bad they overlooked Doris Day.

Saw movie! James Cagney, Doris Day no one like them!

This was Doris only ever Oscar nomination.

@@nicholastroutman5931 Even James Cagney was impressed with her acting skills!

The world is going to hell in a hand basket...whatever that means

@Dr. Emory Carl Sims: I agree with all your sentiments, and technology has probably played a big part in the degradation of culture. However, I have noticed that from 1949 to 1965 was a virtual Golden Age of creativity and excellence. Then the unraveling began. Many commentators have noted the negative effects of the Sexual Revolution with the advent of the "Pill" followed by no-fault divorce and so forth. The more I have examined this insight the more credence it seems to have.

You can't get tired of her singing!

Her career would have changed if she had entered MGM with the old Freed unit for we likely would have seen her dancing with Gene Kelly and Astaire working earlier with Chuck Walters

Sassy walk in dance number ❤❤❤

Yes Richard,"The Band Wagon" is my favourite too.

Maya put a link to it in her post.