Send Me No Flowers

Send Me No Flowers is an American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison in 1964 with Doris Day and Rock Hudson in the lead roles. The film is by Pillow Talk and Lover Come two, the third and last love comedy, Doris Day and Rock Hudson shows together.

The screenplay is based on the spectacle Send Me No Flowers: A Comedy in Three Acts, which was performed in 1960 for a short time on Broadway and was written by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore. The title song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach.

Action

The hypochondriac George Kimball listens during a routine doctor's visit on a Friday morning at random a telephone conversation with his doctor, Dr. Morrissey, which is about a terminally ill patient. As Dr. Morrissey explains his interlocutor, he does not plan to put the patient about his impending death in knowledge. George believes - as for the audience already understood is wrong - firmly believe that he was the patient from whom handle the phone call and had only a few weeks left to live.

In this belief, George leaves the office and informed the same day his friend and neighbor Arnold Nash about his seemingly imminent death. Arnold pointed out to him that George's wife Judy will probably remarry after his death, what George prompted to look over the weekend along with Arnold a suitable new husband for his wife Judy, but without informing them about the health of her husband to want. His peculiar attempt Judy together with her former school friend Bert, Judy finally put in the faith, her husband George she cheating with another woman. In order to free himself from this accusation, says Judy George of his approaching death, whereupon Judy tried in vain to reach the over the weekend for fishing weggefahrenen Dr. Morrissey.

Only on Sunday evening is this suddenly at the doorstep of Kimball's to a good mood to offer them a part of his captive during the weekend fish. While George is at this moment in bed, Judy learns from the doctor that her husband really healthy " like a fish in water " was. For Judy resulting from this information as self-evident that George had its early demise just made up to hide an affair. Enraged, she throws then George out of the house and plans to leave the city. George tries in vain to change her mind. It was not until the next day the undertaker Mr. Akins, in which George's Day has previously purchased a burial, the receipt just this transaction past brings, Judy is convinced that George was not having an affair, but has actually only believed wrongly, his death stand before.

Criticism

" An imaginary patient who already prepared his own funeral, is cured by the jealousy of his wife. Mat Star comedy with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. "

Awards

For her portrayal of Judy Doris Day received a 1965 Laurel Award for Comedy Performance. Rock Hudson was also nominated for his role of George in the Laurel Awards, but finished only third place.

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