Forever Bermuda’s newly launched #OnThisDayBDA feature looks back at the 1962 release of ‘That Touch of Mink,’ the romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day, which featured numerous scenes filmed in Bermuda.
One of the biggest box office hits of 1962, although a lengthy portion of That Touch of Mink is set in Bermuda most of the scenes which supposedly take place here were actually shot in Los Angeles.
The luxury Bermuda resort where Grant and Day stay for the frustrated fling is in fact the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.
But thanks to some clever exercises in creative geography in the Universal Studios editing room, genuine Bermuda location footage is featured throughout the sequence — including shots of the airport, Mangrove Bay and the Great Sound.
Cary Grant’s Philip Shayne character sings Bermuda’s praises throughout the film — at one stage he gestures out the window of the hotel suite he is sharing with Cathy and says: “Nowhere else in the world can you see beaches with pink sand”, although somewhat ironically the footage he is pointing towards shows the beachless inlets of of the Great Sound.
He continues: “Pirate ships used to anchor in that cove. Only pirates from the best families, naturally. The others couldn’t afford it.”
