Pillow Talk SECRETS FROM THE SET

THE COMEDY WAS A TURNING POINT IN ITS STARS' LIVES - BUT ALMOST DIDN'T HAPPEN!

- Louise A. Barile

One of Pillow Talk’s most memorable scenes uses a split screen to show Doris Day and Rock Hudson having a flirty conversation on the phone while in the bath. Both characters are in their own apartments, but the visual trick makes it appear as if they are speaking to each other from opposite ends of the same tub.

While tame by today’s standards, Universal Pictures deemed the scene too sexually suggestive and nearly cut it from the film. And that wasn’t the only problem Pillow Talk had getting to the silver screen — even the title was thought to be too suggestive! At one point, the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1959 that brought Doris her only Oscar nomination, was going to be renamed Any Way the Wind Blows.