THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT

The Glass Bottom Boat
Euterpe / MGM, 1966, Color, 110 minutes, ***½
Released June, 1966

Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10 Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a hilarious blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre.

Day plays a Girl Friday at a hush-hush aeronautics think tank. When colleagues suspect she's an espionage agent, Jennifer chaotically sets out to clear her name. Looney Tunes alumnus Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility - or zany insensibility - embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. With top comedians Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin in tow, The Glass Bottom Boat is loaded top to bottom with seethrough fun.

The support cast includes Paul Lynde as a security agent and Dom DeLuise as a bumbling spy. Even Robert Vaughn gets into the act with a cameo as Napoleon Solo from TV's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Lots of laughs!

Produced by: Martin Melcher and Everett Freeman
Directed by: Frank Tashlin
Assistant Director: Al Jennings
Written by: Everett Freeman
Music by: De Vol
Songs: "The Glass Bottom Boat" by Joe Lubin;
"Soft as the Starlight" by Joe Lubin and Jerome Howard
Art Direction: George W. Davis and Edward C. Carfagno
Set Decoration: Hugh Hunt, Henry Grace
Miss Day's Costumes Designed by: Ray Aghayan
Doris Day Hair Styling by: Barbara Lampson
Make-Up Supervision: William Tuttle
Recording Supervisor: Franklin Milton
Director of Photography: Leon Shamroy
Special Visual Effects: J. McMillin Johnson, Carroll L. Shepphird
In Panavision and Metrocolor
Film Editor: John McSweeney

Cast: Doris Day [Jennifer Nelson], Rod Taylor [Bruce Templeton], Arthur Godfrey [Axel Nordstrom], John McGiver [Ralph Goodwin], Paul Lynde [Homer Cripps], Edward Andrews [Gen. Wallace Bleecker], Eric Fleming [Edgar Hill], Dom DeLuise [Julius Pritter], Dick Martin [Zack Molloy], Elisabeth Fraser [Nina Bailey], George Tobias [Mr. Fenimore], Alice Pearce [Mrs. Fenimore], Ellen Corby [Anna Miller], Dee J. Thompson [Donna], Additional Cast: Robert Vaughn [Cameo as Napoleon Solo], Theodore Marcuse [Spy with Cigar], Christopher Riordan [Party Guest / Plant Worker]

Musical Program: [0:03} The Glass Bottom Boat (sung by Doris Day and Chorus behind titles); [0:44] The Glass Bottom Boat (sung by Arthur Godfrey and Doris Day); [0:46] Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) (sung by Doris Day and Arthur Godfrey); [0:49] Soft as the Starlight (sung by Doris Day)