Doris Day Add to My Celebs Age 90 Birthday Apr. 3rd, 1922 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Height 5' 7"

Doris Day's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Doris Day Show Doris Martin Doris Day's Best Friends Herself - H…

Main Movie Roles 1985 - Volunteers 1985 - That's Dancing! 1968 - Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? 1966 - The Glass Bottom Boat 1965 - Do Not Disturb 1964 - Send Me No Flowers 1963 - The Thrill of It All 1963 - Move Over, Darling 1962 - Billy Rose's Jumbo 1962 - That Touch of Mink 1960 - Midnight Lace 1960 - Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1959 - It Happened to Jane 1959 - Pillow Talk 1958 - Teacher's Pet 1958 - The Tunnel of Love 1957 - The Pajama Game 1956 - Julie 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 1955 - Love Me or Leave Me 1954 - Young at Heart 1954 - Lucky Me 1953 - Calamity Jane 1953 - By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1952 - April in Paris 1951 - Storm Warning 1951 - I'll See You in My Dreams 1951 - On Moonlight Bay 1951 - Lullaby of Broadway 1950 - Tea for Two 1950 - Young Man with a Horn 1949 - It's a Great Feeling 1949 - My Dream is Yours 1948 - Romance on the High Seas

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents divorced while she was still a child and she lived with her mother. Like most little girls, Doris liked to dance. She aspired to become a professional ballerina, but an automobile accident that crushed a leg ended whatever hopes she had of dancing on stage. It was a terrible setback, but after taking singing lessons she found a new vocation, and began singing with local bands. She met trombonist Al Jorden, whom she married in 1941. Jorden was prone to violence and they divorced after two years, not long after the birth of their son Terry. In 1946, Doris married George Weidler, but this union lasted less than a year. Day's agent talked her into taking a screen test at Warner Bros. The executives there liked what they saw and signed her to a contract (her early credits are often confused with those of another actress named Doris Day, who appeared mainly in B westerns in the 1930s and 1940s). Her first starring movie role was in Romance on the High Seas (1948). The next year, she made two more films, My Dream Is Yours (1949) and It's a Great Feeling (1949). Audiences took to her beauty, terrific singing voice and bubbly personality, and she turned in fine performances in the movies she made (in addition to several hit records). She made three films for Warner Bros. in 1950 and five more in 1951. In that year, she met and married Martin Melcher, who adopted her young son Terry, who later grew up to become Terry Melcher, a successful record producer. In 1953, Doris starred in Calamity Jane (1953), which was a major hit, and several more followed: Lucky Me (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and what is probably her best-known film, Pillow Talk (1959). She began to slow down her filmmaking pace in the 1960s, even though she started out the decade with a hit, Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960).

Her husband, who had also taken charge of her career, had made deals for her to star in films she didn't really care about, which led to a bout with exhaustion. The 1960s weren't to be a repeat of the previous busy decade. She didn't make as many films as she had in that decade, but the ones she did make were successful: Do Not Disturb (1965), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) and With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). Martin Melcher died in 1968, and Doris never made another film, but she had been signed by Melcher to do her own TV series, "The Doris Day Show" (1968). That show, like her movies, was also successful, lasting until 1973. After her series went off the air, she made only occasional TV appearances. Today, she runs the Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California, which advocates homes and proper care of household pets. What else would you expect of America's sweetheart?


TRIVIA:

• Performed two songs in films that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: "Secret Love" from _Calamity Jane (1953)_ (qv) and "Que Sera, Sera" from _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)_ (qv). Introduced four songs that were nominated: "It's Magic" from _Romance on the High Seas (1948)_ (qv), "It's a Great Feeling" from _It's a Great Feeling (1949)_ (qv), "I'll Never Stop Loving You" from _Love Me or Leave Me (1955)_ (qv) and "Julie" from _Julie (1956)_ (qv).
• Was a good friend of 'Judy Garland (I)' (qv) after meeting her on the Warner Bros. lots. She was filming _Young at Heart (1954)_ (qv) as Garland was filming _A Star Is Born (1954)_ (qv).
• It was during the location filming of _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)_ (qv), when she saw how camels, goats and other "animal extras" in a marketplace scene were being treated, that Day began her lifelong commitment to preventing animal abuse.
• Her son 'Terry Melcher' (qv) had rented the house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Bel Air, California, at which 'Sharon Tate (I)' (qv) and her friends were murdered by the Manson Family. On March 23, 1969, 'Charles Manson' (qv) had visited the house looking for Melcher, a music producer and composer who had worked with 'The Beach Boys' (qv), 'Bobby Darin' (qv) and 'The Byrds' (qv). The house was now sub-leased by Tate, and her photographer told Manson to leave by "the back alley," possibly giving Manson a motive for the later attack. Melcher had auditioned Manson for a recording contract but rejected him, and there was a rumor after the murders that Manson had intended to send a message to Melcher, a theory that police later discounted.
• Referenced in the song "Dig It" by 'The Beatles' (qv).
• Her only UK appreciation club is called 'Friends of Doris Day' and is based in Oxford UK.
• Referenced in the song "Dirty Epic" by 'Underworld' (qv).
• Has often cited _Calamity Jane (1953)_ (qv) as her personal favorite of the 39 films she appeared in.

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