{"id":74453,"date":"2026-02-01T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/?p=74453"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:38:23","slug":"pillow-talk-1959-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/pillow-talk-1959-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pillow Talk’ (1959) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In New York, interior decorator Jan Morrow (Doris Day<\/strong>) shares a party line with the charming but womanizing composer, Brad Allen (Rock Hudson<\/strong>). After Jan fails to lodge a complaint about Brad, who is monopolizing the line to flirt with his latest conquests, Brad discovers that his anonymous adversary is not only female but strikingly attractive. Amused and intrigued, he sets out to win her over\u2026 by posing as a down-to-earth Texas rancher named Rex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was my first time watching Pillow Talk<\/em>. Obviously, I had heard of it, and I knew Down With Love<\/em><\/a> (2003) had been influenced by this brand of romantic comedies, so I was excited to finally watch it! Pillow Talk<\/em> is a very charming Hollywood rom-com that’s pretty easy to enjoy, even as it shows its age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite an outlandish premise – though admittedly, I do love an outlandish premise – where Hudson’s Brad is essentially catfishing Day’s Jan, you still can’t help but like the guy. Rock Hudson is just that<\/em> charismatic. And Doris Day is a delightful heroine with some pretty impeccable comedic timing. Even better? Hudson and Day are marvelous together on screen, and the film’s biggest strength is their banter. There are some genuinely funny moments in this film, many of which come from Tony Randall<\/strong>, who plays Brad’s best friend and Jan’s persistent suitor, Jonathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that said, Pillow Talk<\/em> leans heavily on deception, and while that can feel uncomfortable for audiences today, I can’t ding the film too much for it, given how often this trope is used in the genre. But many of the jokes do feel dated, and I had to constantly remind myself that the gender politics in play are just reflective of the era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the premise is amusing, it’s also pretty thin and doesn’t really lend itself to a 105-minute film, so the movie eventually began to feel a bit repetitive. I think they could have easily shaved 15-20 minutes from the film, making it more compact and less filler-heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I enjoyed Pillow Talk. It was a pleasant movie to watch on a very cold Friday afternoon. It’s stylish and breezy, and has some truly funny moments that still land in 2026. Rock Hudson and Doris Day have great chemistry, which carries much of the movie\u2019s charm. It’s an enjoyable pick for fans of romantic comedies, especially classics, as long as you go in knowing it doesn\u2019t fully escape the limitations of its era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watched:<\/strong> 01\/30\/2026
Notable Song<\/strong>: Pillow Talk by Doris Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pillow Talk: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen’s succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in\u00a0the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[718,1],"tags":[5493,5495,5498,5499,3230,5494,3652,5496,5497,2075],"class_list":["post-74453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews-p","category-reviews","tag-5493","tag-doris-day","tag-lee-patrick","tag-michael-gordon","tag-nick-adams","tag-pillow-talk","tag-3-stars","tag-rock-hudson","tag-thelma-ritter","tag-tony-randall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82123,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions\/82123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}