Doris Day
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode celebrate one of the great doyennes of Hollywood in what would have been her centenary year.
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode celebrate one of the great doyennes of Hollywood in what would have been her centenary year.
Cultural historian Christopher Frayling joins Mark to revisit the rare career retrospective interview he conducted with Day in 1989.
And Ellen speaks to Queer cinema expert Emma Smart and singer Rufus Wainwright about the importance of both Doris Day and Judy Garland, who would also have turned 100 in 2022, to LGBTQIA+ communities.
Plus actor and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman shares her favourite Doris Day film in Viewing Notes.
Screenshot is Radio 4’s guide through the ever-expanding universe of the moving image. Every episode, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode journey through the main streets and back roads connecting film, television and streaming over the last hundred years.
Producer: Hester Cant
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