Picknick im Pyjama (1957)

Picknick im Pyjama: Directed by George Abbott, Stanley Donen. With Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr.. An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory’s boss to help oppose the workers’ demand for a pay raise.

“When it was released in 1957, The Pajama Game joined a long procession of song and dance Movies that grabbed us all who watched them with their energy, vitality and infectious romance. Doris Day bounces and radiates her way across the screen as only she can and has done many times previously in musicals, singing, dancing and looking great, teaming up this time with some of the cast from the Broadway Production, Eddie Foy Jnr., Carol Haney, Rita Shaw and John Raitt. As you would expect from this array of talent something special would arrive, and it didnu0026#39;t take long for us to taste it. In the opening minutes we are treated to one of Choreographer Bob Fosseu0026#39;s routines with Eddie Foy Jnr. and Rita Shaw singing and stepping to u0026#39;Iu0026#39;ll never get jealous again u0026#39; and as the show moves on more memorable sequences appear like Carol Haney dancing to u0026#39; Steam Heat,u0026#39; Doris Day singing u0026#39; Seven and a Half cents u0026#39; and everyone it seems giving a rousing rendition of u0026#39; Hernandou0026#39;s Hideaway.u0026#39; The Pajama Game is alive with Fiftieu0026#39;s colour, vigour and good old fashioned song and dance, put together by ideas and talent that perhaps in those days we had the chance to take it all for granted. Sadly…..these days, with the absence of musicals we donu0026#39;t have that opportunity.”