38 Doris Day Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Pillow Talk is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Jan, an interior decorator, who lives alone in New York City. She seems to be quite happy in her life, but the only apparent problem in her life is the party line, which she shares with her neighbor Brad, who is a Broadway composer and playboy. Brad soon finds himself attracted to Jan.

Jerry and Carol are both in the advertising business, although they work for different agencies. Carol is annoyed by the fact that Jerry uses alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency. Therefore, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession, but Jerry manages to bribe the girl who was supposed to testify against him. Soon, due to a series of misunderstandings, Jerry is left with a campaign for a product which has not even been invented.

Three years after their loving marriage, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff happen to be on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Most of the passengers do manage to survive, but unfortunately Ellen is presumed dead after she is swept off her lifeboat. She is eventually declared legally dead, and Nicholas gets remarried to another woman named Bianca Steele. However, things get complicated when it seems that Ellen is still alive, and it is revealed that she was actually stranded in an island for the past five years.

Send Me No Flowers is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of George Kimball, a hypochondriac, who lives with his wife Judy in a suburban area. After experiencing chest pains, he begins to believe that he is dying. He decides not to tell Judy, as he believes that it will upset her. Instead, he tries to choose her next husband.      

Philip Shayne is a wealthy businessman who finds himself attracted to Cathy, a young old-fashioned country girl, due to her honest heart. Although Cathy falls for him too, the problem is that she wants to save herself for marriage, while Philip is not interested in marriage, and only wants an affair.

Put on trial for accidentally killing her abusive husband, Josie Minick is finally acquitted. Returning to the ranch she first tries to rejuvenate her ranch; but when she fails she turns to sheep farming instead of cattle, annoying her male neighbors in the process. Not the one to give up, she also sets up a women's suffrage movement, showing how tough a woman can be.

On November 9, 1965, when a mega-blackout hits the Northeast, Waldo Zane, a New York executive, who has just misappropriated his company’s millions, gets stranded with car-breakdown and ends up at a Connecticut cottage. The cottage-owner, actress Margaret Garrison, has angrily retreated to her cottage after witnessing her husband’s infidelity. More chaos follows when her husband finds the two together in bed. 

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense thriller film, which revolves around an American family who were vacationing in French Morocco, only to be dragged into a huge conspiracy. 

Producer Harry Eberhart, aiming to lure his cadet nephew, Tom Fletcher, towards Broadway, hires impoverished Broadway director Bix Bixby to help the cadets at West Point put on a professional-level show. However, Bixby soon runs afoul of the Commandant of Cadets for his disregard of disciplinary rules and is recruited as a temporary cadet himself.

Candy Williams is a part of a struggling theater group that is compelled to work in a hotel where famous songwriter Dick Carson notices Candy. Dick is producing a new show and hopes for a backing from his friend Lorraine’s oil-tycoon father. As he falls for Candy and decides to take her as lead, a jealous Lorraine gets set to create problems.

Prolific lyricist Gus Kahn’s luck changes for the better when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy, who becomes his composer. Later Gus and Grace get married and he achieves even more success until he loses all his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash. 

Augie and Isolde Poole turn in an application to an adoption agency, after failing to have a baby. Unfortunately, misunderstandings alienate Estelle Novick, a representative of the agency and later a drugged Augie starts believing he has impregnated Estelle. Augie must prove his innocence and save his marriage. 

An Air Force crewman, Rick, lies to Neil Wayne, a film star, that he is headed to the war zone, in order to impress her. She eventually develops a liking for him, but chaos ensues, when she finds out that he was lying. 

A female industrial spy works for a cosmetic company owned by Sir Jason but later joins the rival company run by Matt Cutter to steal the secret formula for a hair spray invented by Dr Clancy. Christopher White who works for Cutter tries to stop her but his own real intention is obscure. As the movie progresses, the lives of two are at risk and more secrets tumble out.

After manager Doug Blake is dumped by star Gary Mitchell, Doug travels to New York to discover a new star and finds Martha Gibson. After a series of mishaps, Martha makes it big and even falls in love with Doug but her kindness towards Gary causes more problems.