Send Me No Flowers
- Director: Norman Jewison
- United States, 1964
Like Sidney Lumet, Jewison’s career is still going strong today, four decades after his feature debut and the studio star vehicle Send Me No Flowers isn’t the sort of movie with which you’d associate him.
On paper, it looks hammy: a hypochondriac overhears his doctor discussing a terminal diagnosis and believes it his own, so he sets about finding his wife a replacement husband. On paper it doesn’t stand up. On paper, it’s ridiculous material for a marital comedy.
Somehow Rock Hudson as the hypochondriac with the ever dependable Doris Day (also still working) as his wife manage to keep the movie from catching cold: if you can swallow a pill of disbelief, Send Me No Flowers is charming, warming and most importantly, it’s funny.
