Midnight Lace is mystery thriller made in 1960. It stars Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, & Roddy McDowall. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Doris Day Doris Day (born April 3, 1924), is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ... Rex Harrison in Cleopatra (1963) Sir Reginald Carey Rex Harrison (March 5, 1908 – June 2, 1990) was a British theatre and film actor. ... John Gavin (born John Anthony Golenor on April 8, 1928) is an American film actor and former US Ambassador to Mexico. ... McDowall as a child actor Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (September 17, 1928 – October 3, 1998) was a British actor. ...

Plot

Kit (Day) and Anthony Preston (Harrison) never had a real honeymoon and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. Next the telephone calls start. Then there is a new man on the block, the architect of a building going up next to the Prestons' vintage apartment. That vintage building has the kind of curving stairwell and cage-type elevator that Hitchcock and other suspense masters have loved. Could Kit merely have an overactive imagination? Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899–29 April 1980) was a British-born American film director and producer, a master of the suspense thriller genre. ...

Cast

The movie also stars Myrna Loy, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, Hermione Baddeley, John Williams, Richard Ney, Anthony Dawson, Rhys Williams, Richard Lupino, Hayden Rorke & Doris Lloyd. A publicity photo of Myrna Loy Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American motion picture actress. ... Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) was a popular English cinema and theatre actor who overcame the loss of a leg during World War I, to enjoy a long career, initially as a romantic lead and then in character roles. ... Hermione Baddeley (November 13, 1906 - August 19, 1986) was a celebrated British character actress of theatre, film and television. ... John Williams (April 15, 1902 – May 5, 1983) was a British stage, film, and television actor. ... Richard Ney (November 12, 1915 – July 18, 2004) was an American actor and investment counselor. ... Anthony Dawson (October 18, 1916 – January 8, 1992) was a Scottish-born actor. ... Rhys Williams (December 31, 1897-May 28, 1969) was a Welsh-born character actor in movies and television, whose career spanned several decades. ...

Awards

Doris Day was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama. Designer Irene was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color. The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. ... Irene Lentz (December 8, 1900 - November 15, 1962) was a fashion designer and Hollywood studio costume designer known by her first name, Irene. ... This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies. ...

External link

• Midnight Lace at The Internet Movie Database