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...Thrill of It All. The cinematic succession of unsuccessful assaults on Doris Day's virtue not only has ended with this latest film, but has also gotten a few jumps ahead of the ladies in the balcony: Doris is married to Obstetrician James Garner and is the mother of two singularly objectionable children. With apple-cheeked efficiency, she finds time both to sell soap on TV and to assist as mobile midwife when Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce...
Then in the final segment, "The Coolin," the chorus luxuriated in the thrill and poignancy of returned love, with "a sigh to answer a sigh and a lip to find...
Bible readings were Saratoga's biggest thrill when "Old Smoke" Morrissey hit town in 1861. But not for long. Gambler, dandy, ex-bordello bouncer, heavyweight boxing champion (and later a U.S. Congressman), Morrissey opened Saratoga's first race track, spent $190,000 building his Club House into one of the most enticing gambling mousetraps in the Western Hemisphere. Practically overnight, high livers from around the world began beating a path to Old Smoke's door...
...Thrill of It All presents, among other things, what may be the chicest accouchement of all time: Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
Ross Hunter produced The Thrill of It All, and it has all those little Ross Hunter touches-coy tingles over connubial sex ("Is it your wife's birthday tonight?" "No, but it may be somebody's"), wise-apple kiddies ("Daddy, Mommy's down in the cellar with a man"). But one thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going...