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That Touch of Mink is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann, and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young and Audrey Meadows. Plot.
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage. 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.
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That Touch of Mink may not be quite as good as Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back, the Stanley Shapiro scripted comedies that preceded it, but it’s still a delightful comedy romp. It was the second biggest money-making film of 1962 and the first film to gross more than $1 million at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall. Eventually, it grossed nearly $2 million...
Out of respect for Cary Grant’s long and distinguished film career, Doris Day, the number one box office star in the world, allowed his name to precede hers as they shared equal billing in That Touch of Mink. At a time when she was clearly more popular, she had been similarly generous with only two male co-stars, James Stewart, The Man Who Knew Too...
“They don’t come much flimsier than this: playboy Cary Grant pursues cute Doris Day back in the time when, apparently, good girls didn’t; and Doris certainly won’t. Quite silly, but with two of the screen’s greatest charmers in tandem, it’s irresistible.” – The Guardian “A very popular Doris Day vehicle from her post-Pillow Talk second coming, in w...
"That Touch of Mink" isn't the greatest film ever made, but, like so many other offerings of the period, it is a solid piece of cinema, and deserves a better visual release. Currently Artisan Home Entertainment bolsters a "Digitally Mastered" disk, but the only mastering that was done was to put the film onto DVD format in the first place, and nothing more.
Love arrives with a splash when a handsome and eligible tycoon (Grant) and a beautiful working woman (Day) meet over a curbside mud puddle. He's enchanted by...
That Touch of Mink. In her autobiography, Doris Day wrote: "Of all the people I performed with, I got to know Cary Grant least of all. He is a completely private person, totally reserved, and there is no way into him. Our relationship on That Touch of Mink (1962) was amicable but devoid of give-and-take...Not that he wasn't friendly and polite ...
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Delbert Mann. Director. Stanley Shapiro. Screenplay. Nate Monaster. Screenplay. Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss.
