“I had become a new kind of sex symbol - the woman men wanted to go to bed with, but not until you married her. Sexy but pure. One thing I was careful about in those films was to avoid vulgarity, which I truly despise. I liked those scripts about the man-woman game as long as they were done with style and wit and imagination. In my vocabulary, vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”

-Doris Day 

Doris Day & Rock Hudson in production still from Pillow Talk (1959, dir. Michael Gordon)

“I’m tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes, the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky. You doubtless know the remark dear Oscar Levant once made about me—‘I knew her before she was a virgin.’

Well, I’m not the All-American Virgin Queen and I’d like to deal with the true, honest story of who I really am. This image I’ve got—oh, how I dislike that word ‘image’—it’s not me, not at all who I am.”

-Doris Day (photo by Jimmy Mitchell, circa 1963) (via)

Rock Hudson & Doris Day on the set of Lover Come Back (1961, dir.  Delbert Mann) Photographer: Leo Fuchs (via)