My Dream Is Yours

Doris Day's second film, My Dream Is Yours (1949), was also her second with director Michael Curtiz and co-star Jack Carson. She would make a total of four films with Curtiz, and three with Carson. Day became very fond of both men and credited them with helping her to learn the ropes as a film actor. Michael Curtiz had taken a chance on the band singer who had never acted before, and cast Day in Romance on the High Seas (1948). In her autobiography, Day recalled that Hungarian-born Curtiz, who was famous for mangling the English language, advised her early on not to take acting lessons. "I sometimes like girl who is not actress," he told her. "Is less pretend, and more heart." He told her that no matter what the role, her own strong personality would come through, and that's what makes stars. "You have natural thing there in you, should no one ever disturb." Day heeded his advice, and found that acting came as naturally to her as singing. And, in fact, she realized that she preferred acting and singing in films to singing live on radio or with a band. Even before shooting was finished on Romance on the High Seas, Curtiz realized that Doris Day would become a star, and began preparing the follow-up film, My Dream Is Yours. A satire of the radio industry, My Dream Is Yours is a loose remake of Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934), with elements of Day's own pre-movie career as a radio and band singer. Jack Carson is a radio talent scout fed up with arrogant radio cr... more