She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

This success began with Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall.

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* Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), d. Michael Gordon

It's also common to use this technique to simultaneously portray both participants in a telephone conversation, a long-standing convention which dates back to early silents, as in Lois Weber's triangular frames in her 1913 Suspense, and culminating in Pillow Talk, where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line.

* Pillow Talk ( 1959 )

He portrayed humorous characters in Pillow Talk, the first of three profitable co-starring performances with Doris Day.

* Pillow Talk ( 1959 )

Pillow Talk is a 1959 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gordon.

Upon its release, Pillow Talk brought in a then staggering domestic box-office gross of

Doris Day sings three songs in the film: " Pillow Talk " during the opening credits, " Roly Poly " in the piano bar with Hudson, and " Possess Me " on the drive up to Jonathan's cabin.

* Down With Love, a 2003 film that parodies elements of Pillow Talk.

* Production notes and theories about " Pillow Talk "

* Article on " Pillow Talk "-Bright Lights Film Journal

* Article on " Pillow Talk "-DorisDay. Net

* Pillow Talk Movie Premiere-RockHudsonBlog. com

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According to Oliver Wang, author of the 2003 Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, recording artist (" Pillow Talk ") and studio owner Sylvia Robinson had trouble finding anyone willing to record a rap song.

In 1972, Robinson sent a demo of a song she had written called " Pillow Talk " to Al Green.

" Pillow Talk " has been called an early example of prototypical disco music and went on to sell two million copies.

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After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.

He was accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow for allowing forces under his command to conduct a massacre upon hundreds of black Union Army and white Southern Unionist prisoners.

Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “ The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity .” Andrew Ward downplays the controversy, “ Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word .” John Cimprich states, “ The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ...

The name " Surrealistic Pillow " was suggested by the ' shadow ' producer of the album, Jerry Garcia, when he mentioned that, as a whole, the album sounded " as Surrealistic as a pillow is soft.

Pillow was founded in 1818 by John Snyder, a land developer from Mercer County, as Snydertown ( Schneiderstettle ).

A postal official substituted the name " Pillow " after General Gideon Pillow, who was popular at the time for his victories in the Mexican-American War.

Pillow was quickly hit in the foot but ordered the attack forward.

Surrealistic Pillow was the first blockbuster psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco, announcing to the world the active bohemian scene that had developed there starting with The Beats during the 1950s, extending and changing through the 1960s into the Haight-Ashbury counterculture.

Sei Shōnagon, author of The Pillow Book, was a lady in waiting to Teishi.

A series of six low-budget Universal Horror movies starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and based on the radio show was produced in the 1940s: Calling Dr. Death ( 1943 ), Weird Woman ( 1944 ), Dead Man's Eyes ( 1944 ), The Frozen Ghost ( 1945 ), Strange Confession ( 1945 ) and Pillow of Death ( 1945 ).

It was later determined by Alan Wlasuk ( then head of EPICenter ), Brad Pillow ( EPICenter ) and Steven Dompier ( Island's president ) that a more codified file format was needed.

The file format was created and implemented by Brad Pillow ( EPICenter ) and Bryan Hunt ( EPICenter ) and was developed in response to this need for a less board specific file format.

" Somebody to Love " was also a track on their influential album released in February 1967, Surrealistic Pillow.

Sei Shōnagon was a trend-setting court lady of the tenth century who wrote in ‘ The Pillow Book ’ of her dislike for “ a new cloth screen with a colourful and cluttered painting of many cherry blossoms ”, preferring instead to notice “ that one ’ s elegant Chinese mirror has become a little cloudy ".

" His first and best-selling book, Helmet for My Pillow, a war memoir, was published in 1957.

In the UK, his biggest hit was with the song " Tears On My Pillow " which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in July 1975 for one week.

He was not perceived by casting directors as tall or handsome enough for leading roles but during the late 1950s Adams had supporting roles in several successful television productions including one episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1958 ) starring Steve McQueen and films such as Our Miss Brooks ( 1956 ), No Time for Sergeants ( 1958 ), Teacher's Pet ( 1958 ) and Pillow Talk ( 1959 ).

" According to American Film ( 1986 ), " Nick Adams, who was ... gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor in Pillow Talk.

In January 2007, Reuters reported that a Pillow Fight League was operating in bars in Toronto.