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Doris Day Bio
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Doris DayAs one of the greatest and most astute actresses ever, Doris Day has led a long and abundant life riddled with success, respect, loss, and fulfillment both professionally and personally. She has been referenced in several contexts in songs and movies and has garnered a spot among the top actors and actresses of all time.
Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff on April 3, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German immigrant parents. She had two siblings, one of whom died before she was born. Her parents divorced when she was still young and she grew up in her mother’s custody. As a young girl she showed a strong interest in dancing and dreamed of becoming a ballerina. Her dreams were shattered at the age of fourteen when she endured injuries from a bad automobile accident.
Rather than wallow in pity, Day turned her interest in the performing arts to singing. At sixteen years of age, she began touring with the Les Brown Band where she met her first husband Al Jordan. Though their marriage was short-lived owing largely to Al’s abusive temperament, they had a son, Terry, together.
Day’s vocal popularity led to success as an actress when her manager introduced her to producers at Warner Bros., whose executives subsequently signed her to a contract that led to eight movies in two years. Her film debut was in 1948 as Georgia Garrett in Romance on the High Seas, also starring Jack Carson. Day was frequently cast with Carson and many of Hollywood ’s leading men of the era, such as Kirk Douglas, James Cagney, Gordon MacRae, and even future President Ronald Reagan.
She continued to be one of Hollywood’s biggest box office draws during the 1950s and starred in numerous films including the Oscar-wining Calamity Jane, which is reported as being Day’s favorite role ever. She continued to be paired with some of Hollywood's biggest male stars, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Clark Gable. In 1956, Day starred in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much with Jimmy Stewart. It was in this film that she sang "Whatever Will Be, Will Be" (Qué Será, Será), which won an Oscar and became her signature song, even though she would have preferred not to have sung it.
Though Day continued to experience success in Hollywood, she experienced constant turmoil in her personal life. In 1951 she married for a third time, this time to Martin Melcher, who adopted her son, Terry. When Melcher, who had managed her career since their marriage, died in 1968, Day was in for a shock. Though she had spent the previous decade as one of the top-billing actresses of the silver screen, Melcher had squandered away her money, leaving her in serious debt. She was forced to file a lawsuit against her deceased husband’s business partner, Jerry Rosenthal, to recover.
Despite the fact that Day’s acting career had waned, she carried out obligations her husband had signed her for including in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show, which ran from 1968 to 1973. Since that time, Day has focused on her private life, business endeavors, and philanthropy. She heads the Doris Day Animal Foundation and is owner of the Cypress Inn, a pet-friendly hotel located in Carmel, California. Her son, Terry Melcher, died in 2004 at the age of sixty-two from melanoma complications. YUDDY |
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