Bingham, Dennis, 1954-2010-10-212010-10-212006Bingham, Dennis. “’Before She Was a Virgin. . .’: Doris Day and the decline of female film comedy in the 1950s and 1960s.” Cinema Journal 45, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 3-31.Bingham, Dennis. “’Before She Was a Virgin. . .’: Doris Day and the decline of female film comedy in the 1950s and 1960s.” October 21, 2010. Available from IUPUI ScholarWorks. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2288.0009-7101https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2288This post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Permission granted through posted policies on copyright owner’s website or through direct contact with copyright owner.Doris Day's complicated "dialogue" with her audiences varied over the decades, and endures, in a distorted way, in popular memory. This article studies the decline of her film stardom and her retirement from films as concurrent with the definitive end of the female comic as the unequivocal subject, rather than object, of comedy.en-USDoris DayFemale PerformersFilm ComedyLover Come BackPillow TalkDay, Doris, 1924-Romantic comedy films -- United StatesArticle