All in a Day's Work Trivia Quiz

Answer: interior decorator

Her career as an interior decorator figures significantly in the film as, at one point, he asks her to redecorate his apartment and she, having discovered his subterfuge, complies but with a gaudy horrid design, as revenge. For this picture, Day was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards and for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards, winning neither.

Answer: circus owner

In this movie, Kitty Wonder struggles to keep her circus afloat, despite her father's gambling debts and a take-over attempt by a competing circus. Jumbo is the elephant who figures significantly in the plot. Novelist Sidney Sheldon and playwright Ben Hecht contributed to the script.

Answer: flight attendant

Julie's work as a stewardess (which is what flight attendants were called in 1956) somehow qualifies her to fly an airliner after Lyle kills the pilot and wounds the copilot. Day actually took flying lessons to prepare for her role. "Julie" was shot extensively on the Coast of California near Monterey, where Doris Day would settle once she retired from films and television.

Answer: lumberyard owner

Abby efficiently runs the family lumber business left to her after her first husband's death. There is a split-screen scene in which Abby and Jake are each in their own beds, which is director Howard Morris' homage to the split-screen bathtubs scene in "Pillow Talk". Alice Ghostley, who plays Abby's housekeeper, was a success on Broadway, on television ("Bewitched", "Mayberry R.F.D.") and in film ("To Kill a Mockingbird").

Answer: university professor

"Teacher's Pet" is the only film in which Doris Day and Clark Gable were paired, alas. The conflict is between her scholarly classroom approach to journalism and his hard-hitting experience as a city desk editor without formal education. Gannon goes undercover as a student in her class to show her up. Romance ensues.

Answer: rancher

Josie Minick first attempts to raise cattle and then, that failing, sets herself to raising sheep, all against a backdrop of male ranchers who attempt to persuade her that ranching is no job for a mere woman. While Day did not think this to be one of her better films, it was especially popular with feminist audiences.

Some movie critics suggested that it was a remake of Day's "Calamity Jane" (1953), only without music.

Answer: labour union official

This is a story about a strike in a garment-making plant. Babe Williams is a sewing-machine operator who is the chair of her union's grievance committee. This brings her into conflict with factory superintendent Sid Sorokin (John Raitt). A satisfactory negotiated settlement results, as does true love.

The film features three hit songs: "Steam Heat", "Hey There" and "Hernando's Hideaway". The Broadway production won the 1955 Tony Award for the Best Musical.

Answer: advertising executive

Day plays an educated, ethical advertiser against Hudson's sex-sells unscrupulous advertiser in this film. Carol Templeton believes in market research and in bringing genuinely improved products to consumers. Jerry Webster uses the sex appeal of Edie Adams to market a not-yet-existent product. Day won the Laurel Award for the Top Female Comedy Performance for this movie.

Answer: tour guide/writer

Security is tight at the space laboratory where Bruce and Jennifer both work: him as a scientist and inventor and her as a tour guide and writer. They connect when he asks her to help him write his autobiography. The confusion begins when Jennifer is overheard talking to Vladimir on the telephone; Vladimir turns out to be her dog ... but his name sounds like that of a Russian spy. One of the best scenes in the film is where she sings "Que Sera, Sera" accompanied only by Arthur Godfrey on his ukulele.

Answer: owner of a mail-order lobster business

The story is of a small-town businesswoman who runs a mail-order company which sells live Maine lobsters. When a railroad company delays a shipment of her lobsters, resulting in their demise, she sues the corporate giant and wins. In an act of unfair play, the railroad threatens to reroute its trains around the small Maine town in which she lives, thereby cutting its business connection to the rest of the country.

She is championed by her lawyer-politician boyfriend George (Jack Lemmon) and it all works out well in the end.

This film is the only pairing of Day and Lemmon, which is unfortunate, given the chemistry.