Clear as Sunshine

O GET SOMETHING OF THE MEASURE OF THE EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT THAT Doris Day was capable of as a screen actress, just look at one particular scene she plays in a Marrakech hotel room in (1956). Her character’s husband, a physician played by James Stewart, is preparing to break the news of their young son’s kidnapping to her, but only after he has administered, without asking her permission, a knockout dose of sedative. It’s a wrenching exchange, with Day first holding out against taking the pills before giving into Stewart’s paternalistic browbeating, then fighting with every ounce of her