MGM's fitting classical opening for the Freed unit musical based on an 1897 stage production, The Belle of New York, 1952, and the opening scene introducing Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main and Alice Pearce. watch
Oscar-nominee Doris Day ("Pillow Talk," "The Man Who Knew Too Much") stars as a widowed writer who is mistaken for a spy when she is hired to write a biography of handsome research scientist Rod Taylor ("The Birds," "The Time Machine"). A frolicking comic adventure packed with celebrities, including TV's legendary pioneer Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde (TV's "Bewitched" and "The Hollywood Squares"), Dom De Luise ("Blazing Saddles," "The Cannonball Run"), Emmy-winner Dick Martin (TV's "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"), Emmy-winner Alice Pearce (TV's "Bewitched"), Emmy-winner and Oscar-nominee Ellen Corby (TV's "The Waltons," "Vertigo"), and Robert Vaughn (TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."). watch
