TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Doris Day.
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Birthdate: April 3, 1924
Doris Day
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
1.9089
3
1950s
3.2203
23
1960s
2.6805
15
1970s
No Reviews
0
1980s
No Reviews
0
1990s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9858
2.9858
Doris Day Movie Rankings
1
3.0817Interior decorator Jan Morrow and composer Brad Allen share a phone line. Brad keeps the line occupied all day talking to his girlfriends, which annoys Jan terribly and animosity between them builds up. ...more about Pillow Talk
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $8.96
(10 sellers)
2
2.9922Story of torch singer Ruth Etting's rise from 1920s taxi dancer to movie star, simultaneously aided and frustrated by Chicago mobster Marty Sydney's headstrong ways and pressure tactics. ...more about Love Me or Leave Me
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
3
2.9278Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. ...more about Pajama Game
DVD from $3.20
(14 sellers)
4
2.9164
Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. ...more about Man Who Knew Too Much
DVD from $9.41
(11 sellers)
5
2.9097
When Alex enters the lives of the musical Tuttle family, each of the three daughters falls for him. He is charming, good looking and personable. Laurie and Alex seem made for each other and become engaged. ...more about Young at Heart
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
6
2.7887
Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. ...more about It Happened to Jane
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
7
2.7579
Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. ...more about Calamity Jane
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
8
2.7450
Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. ...more about Young Man with a Horn
DVD from $3.99
(15 sellers)
9
2.7161
Drama critic Larry McKay, his wife Kay, and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kay settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York. ...more about Please Don't Eat the Daisies
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
10
2.5674
Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. ...more about Midnight Lace
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
- Not Available on DVD
11
2.5628
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are both in the advertising business, but for different agencies. Annoyed by Jerry's methods of using alcohol and women to ensure contracts for his agency, Carol tries to get him thrown out of his profession. ...more about Lover Come Back
DVD from $4.93
(11 sellers)
12
2.5373
Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe, headed by Hap Schneider. Unfortunately, the troupe has fallen on hard times, forcing the members to get jobs cleaning hotel rooms. ...more about Lucky Me
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
13
2.5354
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. ...more about Send Me No Flowers
DVD from $5.99
(14 sellers)
14
2.4886
Pop and Kitty Wonder are the owners of the Wonder Circus and because of Pop's addiction to gambling they are constantly in debt and the creditors are very close to foreclosing on them. ...more about Billy Rose's Jumbo
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
15
2.4734
The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. ...more about Tunnel of Love
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.4734
Based on a true story, Ronald Reagan stars as Grover Cleveland Alexander, a former worker for the telephone company whose hobby is pitching baseball. ...more about Winning Team
DVD from $31.85
(12 sellers)
17
2.4369
James Gannon, the hardboiled city editor of a newspaper, believes that the only way to learn the business is by way of the School of Hard Knocks, and has a very low regard for college-taught journalism, so he's not pleased when his managing editor orders ...more about Teacher's Pet
DVD from $3.90
(12 sellers)
18
2.4095
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. ...more about On Moonlight Bay
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
19
2.4017
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her. ...more about It's a Great Feeling
- Not Available on DVD
20
2.3638
Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theatre at an arts exposition in Paris, France. ...more about April in Paris
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2991
Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters of Catalina Island. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her work (a research lab). ...more about Glass Bottom Boat
DVD from $12.71
(14 sellers)
22
2.2816
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. ...more about Lullaby of Broadway
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
23
2.2556
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. ...more about My Dream Is Yours
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
24
2.2314
The trials and tribulations of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as Marjorie Winfield's boyfriend, William Sherman, returns from the Army after W.W.I. ...more about By the Light of the Silvery Moon
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
25
2.1964
Her new husband's behaviour convinces Julie Benton that his jealousy is dangerous, and when he admits he killed her first husband she realises she has to get away. ...more about Julie
- Not Available on DVD
26
2.0898
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter (Doris Day) bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. ...more about Tea for Two
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.0560
Cathy Timberlake is an old fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Philip is a romantic businessman who is taken by Cathy's honest heart. ...more about That Touch of Mink
DVD from $7.14
(10 sellers)
28
2.0058
Five years to the day after his wife Ellen disappeared in the sea after a plane crash, lawyer husband Nicholas has her declared legally dead, remarries and sets off to Monterey with new wife Bianca. ...more about Move Over
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $10.04
(10 sellers)
29
1.8642
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. They start dating and decide to get married. ...more about With Six You Get Eggroll
DVD from $7.18
(12 sellers)
30
1.8125
Comedy-thriller starring Doris Day as an industrial designer who gets herself into a whole heap of trouble when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company in Paris. ...more about Caprice
DVD from $11.15
(11 sellers)
31
1.8036
Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. ...more about Romance on the High Seas
DVD from $8.68
(13 sellers)
32
1.7885
Ginger Rogers, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister (Doris Day) who has married a Ku Klux Klansman (Steve Cochran). ...more about Storm Warning
DVD from $31.85
(12 sellers)
33
1.7729
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress ...more about Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.7501
At a diner party, Beverly Boyer, wife of an obstetrician and mother of two, tells the manufacturer of Happy soap about her experiences with his product. Charmed by her spontanious appearance he offers her a chance to tell her story in his commercials. ...more about Thrill of It All
DVD from $8.89
(10 sellers)
35
1.1108
Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this 1960s romantic comedy about a pair of lovebirds prone to constant bickering. This argumentative streak is only intensified when the American couple moves to the English countryside. ...more about Do Not Disturb
DVD from $9.99
(11 sellers)
36
Josie Minick is a widow, who is forced to fend for herself. Josie living in a cattle country, finds herself in odds and war with the cattlemen of the town, when she decides to make a sheep farm her livelihood. ...more about Ballad of Josie
- Not Available on DVD
38
Songwriter Gus Kahn gets the Hollywood treatment. The film chronicles his success and decline, with his wife Grace sticking by him the whole time. ...more about I'll See You in My Dreams
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
39
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. ...more about Rowan & Martin at the Movies
- Not Available on DVD
40
This Columbia Screen Snapshots entry (production number 4858) is strictly a photo-op of scenes where various performers show up at premiers of their current film ( Ronald Reagan and Doris Day)or married performers out on the town (Virginia Mayo and ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life
- Not Available on DVD
42
Broadway director Bix Bixby, down on his luck (thanks to gambling), is reluctantly persuaded to go to West Point military academy (with Eve, his gorgeous assistant and on-and-off love) to help the students put on a show. ...more about West Point Story
DVD from $12.42
(11 sellers)
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