Doris Day

DORIS DAY'S 100TH BIRTHDAY is celebrated tonight with Move Over Darling on BBC4. Her co-star James Garner later revealed why she was 'the sexiest star I ...

He had also signed her up for the CBS TV comedy show The Doris Day Show without her knowledge – and spent her advance fee. 1963's Move Over Darling was another box office smash for the actress, who was teh biggest global box office draw in 1960 and 1962-1964. Nick bursts in and pulls her off. "I think Doris is a very sexy lady who doesn't know how sexy she is. I don't think she could have had the success she's had if she didn't have this sexy whirlpool frothing around underneath her All-American-girl exterior." The Silver Screen veteran said: "I've had to play love scenes with a lot of screen ladies, but of all the women I've had to be intimate with on the screen, I'd rate two as sexiest by far - Doris and Julie Andrews, both of them notorious girls next door." Jim, if we don't speak for a while, I forgive you for breaking my ribs. I don't know how, because Jim hates the telephone. He went even further talking about Day: "Doris didn't play sexy, she didn't act sexy, she was sexy. "We didn't see each other much over the following years, but we've stayed friends because we talk on the phone regularly. And Doris was a joy to work with. She's so sweet and so professional - she made everyone around her look good.