Old Movie Teams
Weren’t they also in that other movie?Doris Day & Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRea and Doris Day appeared together in six films, though one of them — So You Want a Television Set (1953) — a ten-minute one-reeler, uses them only in a tongue-in-cheek cameo. Starlift (1951) also showcases their talents briefly among a cavalcade of other performers. But in Tea for Two (1950), The West Point Story (1950), On Moonlight Bay (1951), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), they enjoy a great deal of the spotlight as they croon and dance and romance in the charming, albeit typical, hollywood fare of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.
Gene Nelson may be considered a third in this duo, for he appears with Doris and Gordon in Tea for Two and The West Point Story. He also teamed with glamorous Doris in Lullaby of Broadway (1951) and partnered with cowboy Gordon in Oklahoma (1955).
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is there an album of their songs together? i’d like to own it.
In a further reply to Kevin, the reason for there not being any Doris Day duets on disc with Gordon MacRae is because of contractual limitations imposed at the time, Doris was contracted to Columbia and Gordon to Capitol Records. It simply wasn’t allowed as I understand it. Great shame I agree.
Doris Day is magnificent and I suspect a fine human being and Gordon MacRae absolutely magnificent did he smoke or drink he died so young? And Nelson totally incredible
They were SO good together! They both had GREAT voices, and their voices were really good together! I LOVE EVERY movie I’ve seen with them in it!