Doris Day – Tea For Two (1950) – Opening Credits
Doris Day – Tea For Two (1950) – Opening Credits This film was the first in which Doris Day received top billing and marked the first time she danced on-screen. Tea for Two is a 1950 American musical film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, and the score by Harbach, Irving Caesar, and Vincent Youmans was augmented with tunes by other composers. Set in the Roaring Twenties, the story centers on Nanette Carter, a Westchester socialite with show business aspirations. She offers to invest 000 in a Broadway show if her boyfriend, producer Larry Blair, casts her in the starring role. What she doesn’t realize is Larry is two-timing her with ingenue Beatrice Darcy, who he envisions as the lead. When he accepts Nanette’s offer, she imposes upon her wealthy, penny-pinching uncle, J. Maxwell Bloomhaus, to lend her the money. He’s willing to do so, on one condition – for the next 24 hours, his niece must answer “no” to every question she’s asked. Comic complications ensue when the cast arrives at Nanette’s estate to rehearse, and composer and pianist Jimmy Smith, who has romantic designs on the girl, falls victim to the bet she’s made with her uncle. Nanette wins, only to discover Uncle Max has lost all his money in the stock market crash. The only person still solvent is attorney William …
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Walter Wells on January 27, 2012
Whose name is blotted out in the credits?
Lisa Hall on January 27, 2012
Click on the Video Response to see Doris Day sing “I Know That You Know” and then dance with Gene Nelson while Gordon MacRae accompanies them on the piano.