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Doris Day (born April 3 1924) is an United
States|American singer, Actor|actress, and animal
welfare advocate.  A vivacious blonde with a
wholesome image, she was one of the most prolific
actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in
Evanston, Ohio|Evanston, Ohio. The second of two
children, she was named "Doris" after silent movie
actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother liked. Her
family was Catholic, despite her parents' divorce.
 She later embraced Christian Science. 

Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract
that enabled her to travel to Hollywood,
California|Hollywood with her partner, Jerry
Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she
injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She
sang with the big bands of Barney Rapp, Bob
Crosby, and Les Brown, before setting out on her
own in the late 1940s. It was Barney Rapp who
convinced her that "Kappelhoff" was too awkward a
name and suggested "Day" after the song "Day after
Day" that was part of her repertoire. She never
really liked the name Doris Day, thinking it
sounded too much like a stripper; this was ironic,
since she eventually became associated with a
nearly opposite image of wholesomeness and
innocence.

With Brown, she charted 12 popular music hits,
among them her first two # 1's: "Sentimental
Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the
Time". "Sentimental Journey" earned her a flood of
letters from World War II GIs. She admitted coming
to hate singing "Journey", but never tired of
reading the letters. On her own, she had more #
1's, including "Secret Love".

Day acted in many films, in most of which she
sang.  In Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too
Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much, she
sang "Que Será, Será", which won an
Academy Award|Oscar. "Que Será,
Será" (Spanish for "What Will Be, Will Be")
became her signature song, and was cover
version|covered by Sly & the Family Stone in 1973.
Day began her film career in 1948 as a peppy,
Betty Huttonesque persona. She continued to make
saccharine and somewhat low-level musicals such as
Starlift, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and
Tea for Two for Warner Brothers until the cycle
exhausted itself. In 1955, she received some of
the best notices of her career for her portrayal
of singer Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me
(movie)|Love Me or Leave Me, co-starring James
Cagney. She continued to be paired with some of
Hollywood's biggest male stars, including James
Stewart (actor)|James Stewart, Cary Grant, David
Niven, and Clark Gable. 


In 1959 Day entered her most successful phase as a
film actress with the hugely popular Pillow Talk
co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong
friend.  The film received positive reviews and
was a box office favourite. It also brought a
nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress
for Day.  She and Hudson made two more films
together. Many of her 1960s films ignored her
singing abilities and painted her as a
good-hearted woman with a strong will, a hint of
naïveté, and the purest virtue this side of a
nun. Times as well as attitudes changed, but Day's
films did not. Critics, comics and pundits
attacked Day as "the world's oldest virgin" and
audiences began to shy away from her repetitive,
gimmicky roles. Day herself found many of her
mid-late 1960s films to be of very poor quality
and did them only at the insistence of her third
husband, Marty Melcher. One of the roles he turned
down for her was Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (a
role that went to Anne Bancroft).

Upon Melcher's death she learned that he had
committed her to a television|TV series. From 1968
to 1973, she therefore starred in her own
situation comedy, The Doris Day Show.  Its theme
song was "Que Será, Será". Day
continued with the show only as long as she needed
the work to help pay down her debts.

Though generally presenting a happy, carefree
image to the public, she had four difficult
marriages:
# To Al Jorden, a trombone|trombonist whom she had
met when he was in Barney Rapp's band, from March
1941 to 1943. Her only child, Terry Melcher|Terry,
was born in this marriage, but Jorden was
physically abusive.
# To George Weidler, (a saxophone|saxophonist),
from March 30, 1946 to May 31, 1949. Weidler never
could accept the fact that his wife would become a
bigger star than he, and they broke up after eight
months. Weidler and Day met again years later and
he helped her become involved in Christian
Science.
# To Marty Melcher, whom she married on her 27th
birthday, April 3, 1951. This looked like a happy
marriage, and lasted much longer than her first
two. Melcher adopted Terry (thus becoming Terry
Melcher), and also produced many of Day's movies.
However, when he died in 1968 it turned out he had
been spending her money without restraint, leaving
her bankruptcy|bankrupt, and owing thousands. Her
money difficulties continued for a number of years
after his death, she ultimately returned to
financial security. Day also later revealed that
Melcher had physically abused Terry.
# To Barry Comden, from April 14, 1976 to 1981.
Comden was her only husband outside show business.

In 1985 Day hosted her own talk show, Doris Day's
Best Friends. The show generated unexpected press
when her old friend Rock Hudson appeared in the
first episode. Day was taken aback by Hudson's
emaciated and wizened frame, as he had always been
in top physical condition. Soon after, she and the
world learned that he was dying of AIDS. Day stood
by his side.

In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League,
and she currently devotes much of her time towards
the cause of helping animals.

She wrote a best-selling autobiography, Doris Day:
My Own Story.
 
In 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom but refused to attend the ceremony because
of a aviophobia|fear of flying. In November 2004
her son Terry died from complications of melanoma.


She is part-owner of the Cypress Inn in Carmel,
California, where pets (dogs and cats) are
welcome.


==Songs ==

*"A Guy Is A Guy"
*"Again (1949 song)|Again"
*"Anything You Can Do"
*"Any Way the Wind Blows"
*"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
*"But Not For Me"
*"By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"
*"Confess (song)|Confess" (duet with Buddy Clark)
(also done by Patti Page)
*"Cheek To Cheek"
*"Dream A Little Dream Of Me"
*"Everybody Loves A Lover"
*"Everybody Loves My Baby"
*"Hernando's Hideaway" (bigger hit done by Archie
Bleyer)
*"Hooray For Hollywood"
*"If I Give My Heart to You" (also done by Denise
Lor)
*"I'll Never Stop Loving You"
*"I'm An Indian Too"
*"It All Depends on You"
*"It's Magic"
*"It's a Great Feeling"
*"It Takes Time"
*"Julie (song)|Julie"
*"Just One of Those Things"
*"Love Me or Leave Me (song)|Love Me or Leave Me"
*"Love Somebody" (duet with Buddy Clark)
*"Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway"
*"Move Over, Darling (song)|Move Over, Darling"
*"My Darling, My Darling" (duet with Buddy Clark)
*"My Young and Foolish Heart"
*"Once In A While" (bigger hit for Patti Page)
*"On Moonlight Bay (song)|On Moonlight Bay"
*"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"
*"Pillow Talk (song)|Pillow Talk"
*"Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon"
*"Secret Love"
*"Sentimental Journey"
*"Singin' in the Rain (song)|Singin' in the Rain"
*"Someone Like You (1949 song)|Someone Like You"  
*"Tacos, Enchiladas and Beans"
*"Teacher's Pet (song)|Teacher's Pet"
*"When I Fall in Love" 
*"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (song)|Whatever Will
Be, Will Be" ("Que Será, Será")
*"You Are My Sunshine"
*"You Do Something For Me"

==Filmography==

*Romance on the High Seas (1948)
*My Dreams Is Yours (1949)
*It's a Great Feeling (1949)
*Young Man with a Horn (1950)
*Tea for Two (movie)|Tea for Two (1950)
*The West Point Story (1950)
*Storm Warning (1951)
*Lullaby of Broadway (movie)|Lullaby of Broadway
(1951)
*On Moonlight Bay (1951)
*I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
*Starlift (1951) (Cameo)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952)
(short subject)
*The Winning Team (1952)
*April in Paris (movie)|April in Paris (1952)
*By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
*So You Want a Television Set (1953) (short
subject) (Cameo)
*Calamity Jane (movie)|Calamity Jane (1953)
*Lucky Me (1954)
*Young at Heart (movie)|Young at Heart (1954)
*Love Me or Leave Me (movie)|Love Me or Leave Me
(1955)
* The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man
Who Knew Too Much (1956)
* Julie (1956)
* The Pajama Game (1957)
* Teacher's Pet (movie)|Teacher's Pet (1958)
* The Tunnel of Love (movie)|The Tunnel of Love
(1958)
* It Happened to Jane (1959)
* Pillow Talk (1959)
* Please Don't Eat the Daisies (movie)|Please
Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
* Midnight Lace (1960)
* Lover Come Back (1961)
* That Touch of Mink (1962)
* Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
* The Thrill of It All (1963)
* Move Over, Darling (movie)|Move Over, Darling
(1963)
* Send Me No Flowers (1964)
* Do Not Disturb (1965)
* Every Girl's Dream (1966) (short subject)
* The Glass Bottom Boat (movie)|The Glass Bottom
Boat (1966)
* The Ballad of Josie (1967)
* Caprice (1967)
* Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968) (short
subject)
* Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
* With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

==Albums==

*1949 You're My Thrill
*1950 Young Man with a Horn  (w/ Harry James)
(soundtrack)
*1951 Lullaby of Broadway (album)|Lullaby of
Broadway (soundtrack)
*1951 On Moonlight Bay (soundtrack)
*1951 I'll See You in My Dreams (soundtrack)
*1953 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(soundtrack)
*1953 Calamity Jane (soundtrack)
*1954 Young at Heart (soundtrack) (w/ Frank
Sinatra)
*1955 Love Me or Leave Me (movie)|Love Me or Leave
Me (soundtrack)
*1956 Day By Day 
*1957 The Pajama Game (soundtrack) (w/ John Raitt
and cast of film)
*1957 Day By Night 
*1958 Hooray for Hollywood Vol. 1
*1959 Hooray for Hollywood Vol. 2
*1959 Cuttin' Capers
*1960 What Every Girl Should Know
*1960 Show Time
*1961 Bright and Shiny
*1961 I Have Dreamed
*1962 Duet (w/ Andre Previn)
*1962 You'll Never Walk Alone
*1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo (soundtrack) (w/ cast of
film)
*1963 Annie Get Your Gun (w/ Robert Goulet)
*1963 Love Him
*1964 The Doris Day Christmas Album
*1964 With a Smile and a Song
*1965 Latin for Lovers
*1965 Doris Day's Sentimental Journey
*1967 The Love Album (released in 1994)

==External links ==
*imdb name|id=0000013|name=Doris Day
*http://www.dorisday.net/ Another filmography and
fan page
*http://www.legacyrecordings.com/dorisday/discogra
phy.html A discography of her work
*http://www.parabrisas.com/d_dayd.html Another
discography
*http://www.ddal.org Doris Day Animal League

*http://www.dorisday.de.vu Inoffizielle Doris Day
Online Vita
*http://www.dorisdaytribute.com/ Doris Day tribute
page
*http://www.mp3.com/doris-day/artists/2577/biograp
hy.html Biography on the MP3.com site

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Doris Day (born April 3 1924) is an United
States|American singer, Actor|actress, and animal
welfare advocate.  A vivacious blonde with a
wholesome image, she was one of the most prolific
actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in
Evanston, Ohio|Evanston, Ohio. The second of two
children, she was named "Doris" after silent movie
actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother liked. Her
family was Catholic, despite her parents' divorce.
 She later embraced Christian Science. 

Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract
that enabled her to travel to Hollywood,
California|Hollywood with her partner, Jerry
Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she
injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She
sang with the big bands of Barney Rapp, Bob
Crosby, and Les Brown, before setting out on her
own in the late 1940s. It was Barney Rapp who
convinced her that "Kappelhoff" was too awkward a
name and suggested "Day" after the song "Day after
Day" that was part of her repertoire. She never
really liked the name Doris Day, thinking it
sounded too much like a stripper; this was ironic,
since she eventually became associated with a
nearly opposite image of wholesomeness and
innocence.

With Brown, she charted 12 popular music hits,
among them her first two # 1's: "Sentimental
Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the
Time". "Sentimental Journey" earned her a flood of
letters from World War II GIs. She admitted coming
to hate singing "Journey", but never tired of
reading the letters. On her own, she had more #
1's, including "Secret Love".

Day acted in many films, in most of which she
sang.  In Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too
Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much, she
sang "Que Será, Será", which won an
Academy Award|Oscar. "Que Será,
Será" (Spanish for "What Will Be, Will Be")
became her signature song, and was cover
version|covered by Sly & the Family Stone in 1973.
Day began her film career in 1948 as a peppy,
Betty Huttonesque persona. She continued to make
saccharine and somewhat low-level musicals such as
Starlift, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and
Tea for Two for Warner Brothers until the cycle
exhausted itself. In 1955, she received some of
the best notices of her career for her portrayal
of singer Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me
(movie)|Love Me or Leave Me, co-starring James
Cagney. She continued to be paired with some of
Hollywood's biggest male stars, including James
Stewart (actor)|James Stewart, Cary Grant, David
Niven, and Clark Gable. 



In 1959 Day entered her most successful phase as a
film actress with the hugely popular Pillow Talk
co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong
friend.  The film received positive reviews and
was a box office favourite. It also brought a
nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress
for Day.  She and Hudson made two more films
together. Many of her 1960s films ignored her
singing abilities and painted her as a
good-hearted woman with a strong will, a hint of
naïveté, and the purest virtue this side of a
nun. Times as well as attitudes changed, but Day's
films did not. Critics, comics and pundits
attacked Day as "the world's oldest virgin" and
audiences began to shy away from her repetitive,
gimmicky roles. Day herself found many of her
mid-late 1960s films to be of very poor quality
and did them only at the insistence of her third
husband, Marty Melcher. One of the roles he turned
down for her was Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (a
role that went to Anne Bancroft).

Upon Melcher's death she learned that he had
committed her to a television|TV series. From 1968
to 1973, she therefore starred in her own
situation comedy, The Doris Day Show.  Its theme
song was "Que Será, Será". Day
continued with the show only as long as she needed
the work to help pay down her debts.

Though generally presenting a happy, carefree
image to the public, she had four difficult
marriages:
# To Al Jorden, a trombone|trombonist whom she had
met when he was in Barney Rapp's band, from March
1941 to 1943. Her only child, Terry Melcher|Terry,
was born in this marriage, but Jorden was
physically abusive.
# To George Weidler, (a saxophone|saxophonist),
from March 30, 1946 to May 31, 1949. Weidler never
could accept the fact that his wife would become a
bigger star than he, and they broke up after eight
months. Weidler and Day met again years later and
he helped her become involved in Christian
Science.
# To Marty Melcher, whom she married on her 27th
birthday, April 3, 1951. This looked like a happy
marriage, and lasted much longer than her first
two. Melcher adopted Terry (thus becoming Terry
Melcher), and also produced many of Day's movies.
However, when he died in 1968 it turned out he had
been spending her money without restraint, leaving
her bankruptcy|bankrupt, and owing thousands. Her
money difficulties continued for a number of years
after his death, she ultimately returned to
financial security. Day also later revealed that
Melcher had physically abused Terry.
# To Barry Comden, from April 14, 1976 to 1981.
Comden was her only husband outside show business.

In 1985 Day hosted her own talk show, Doris Day's
Best Friends. The show generated unexpected press
when her old friend Rock Hudson appeared in the
first episode. Day was taken aback by Hudson's
emaciated and wizened frame, as he had always been
in top physical condition. Soon after, she and the
world learned that he was dying of AIDS. Day stood
by his side.

In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League,
and she currently devotes much of her time towards
the cause of helping animals.

She wrote a best-selling autobiography, Doris Day:
My Own Story.
 
In 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom but refused to attend the ceremony because
of a aviophobia|fear of flying. In November 2004
her son Terry died from complications of melanoma.


She is part-owner of the Cypress Inn in Carmel,
California, where pets (dogs and cats) are
welcome.


==Songs ==

*"A Guy Is A Guy"
*"Again (1949 song)|Again"
*"Anything You Can Do"
*"Any Way the Wind Blows"
*"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
*"But Not For Me"
*"By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"
*"Confess (song)|Confess" (duet with Buddy Clark)
(also done by Patti Page)
*"Cheek To Cheek"
*"Dream A Little Dream Of Me"
*"Everybody Loves A Lover"
*"Everybody Loves My Baby"
*"Hernando's Hideaway" (bigger hit done by Archie
Bleyer)
*"Hooray For Hollywood"
*"If I Give My Heart to You" (also done by Denise
Lor)
*"I'll Never Stop Loving You"
*"I'm An Indian Too"
*"It All Depends on You"
*"It's Magic"
*"It's a Great Feeling"
*"It Takes Time"
*"Julie (song)|Julie"
*"Just One of Those Things"
*"Love Me or Leave Me (song)|Love Me or Leave Me"
*"Love Somebody" (duet with Buddy Clark)
*"Lullaby of Broadway (song)|Lullaby of Broadway"
*"Move Over, Darling (song)|Move Over, Darling"
*"My Darling, My Darling" (duet with Buddy Clark)
*"My Young and Foolish Heart"
*"Once In A While" (bigger hit for Patti Page)
*"On Moonlight Bay (song)|On Moonlight Bay"
*"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"
*"Pillow Talk (song)|Pillow Talk"
*"Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon"
*"Secret Love"
*"Sentimental Journey"
*"Singin' in the Rain (song)|Singin' in the Rain"
*"Someone Like You (1949 song)|Someone Like You"  
*"Tacos, Enchiladas and Beans"
*"Teacher's Pet (song)|Teacher's Pet"
*"When I Fall in Love" 
*"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (song)|Whatever Will
Be, Will Be" ("Que Será, Será")
*"You Are My Sunshine"
*"You Do Something For Me"

==Filmography==

*Romance on the High Seas (1948)
*My Dreams Is Yours (1949)
*It's a Great Feeling (1949)
*Young Man with a Horn (1950)
*Tea for Two (movie)|Tea for Two (1950)
*The West Point Story (1950)
*Storm Warning (1951)
*Lullaby of Broadway (movie)|Lullaby of Broadway
(1951)
*On Moonlight Bay (1951)
*I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
*Starlift (1951) (Cameo)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952)
(short subject)
*The Winning Team (1952)
*April in Paris (movie)|April in Paris (1952)
*By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
*So You Want a Television Set (1953) (short
subject) (Cameo)
*Calamity Jane (movie)|Calamity Jane (1953)
*Lucky Me (1954)
*Young at Heart (movie)|Young at Heart (1954)
*Love Me or Leave Me (movie)|Love Me or Leave Me
(1955)
* The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man
Who Knew Too Much (1956)
* Julie (1956)
* The Pajama Game (1957)
* Teacher's Pet (movie)|Teacher's Pet (1958)
* The Tunnel of Love (movie)|The Tunnel of Love
(1958)
* It Happened to Jane (1959)
* Pillow Talk (1959)
* Please Don't Eat the Daisies (movie)|Please
Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
* Midnight Lace (1960)
* Lover Come Back (1961)
* That Touch of Mink (1962)
* Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
* The Thrill of It All (1963)
* Move Over, Darling (movie)|Move Over, Darling
(1963)
* Send Me No Flowers (1964)
* Do Not Disturb (1965)
* Every Girl's Dream (1966) (short subject)
* The Glass Bottom Boat (movie)|The Glass Bottom
Boat (1966)
* The Ballad of Josie (1967)
* Caprice (1967)
* Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968) (short
subject)
* Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
* With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

==Albums==

*1949 You're My Thrill
*1950 Young Man with a Horn  (w/ Harry James)
(soundtrack)
*1951 Lullaby of Broadway (album)|Lullaby of
Broadway (soundtrack)
*1951 On Moonlight Bay (soundtrack)
*1951 I'll See You in My Dreams (soundtrack)
*1953 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(soundtrack)
*1953 Calamity Jane (soundtrack)
*1954 Young at Heart (soundtrack) (w/ Frank
Sinatra)
*1955 Love Me or Leave Me (movie)|Love Me or Leave
Me (soundtrack)
*1956 Day By Day 
*1957 The Pajama Game (soundtrack) (w/ John Raitt
and cast of film)
*1957 Day By Night 
*1958 Hooray for Hollywood Vol. 1
*1959 Hooray for Hollywood Vol. 2
*1959 Cuttin' Capers
*1960 What Every Girl Should Know
*1960 Show Time
*1961 Bright and Shiny
*1961 I Have Dreamed
*1962 Duet (w/ Andre Previn)
*1962 You'll Never Walk Alone
*1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo (soundtrack) (w/ cast of
film)
*1963 Annie Get Your Gun (w/ Robert Goulet)
*1963 Love Him
*1964 The Doris Day Christmas Album
*1964 With a Smile and a Song
*1965 Latin for Lovers
*1965 Doris Day's Sentimental Journey
*1967 The Love Album (released in 1994)

==External links ==
*imdb name|id=0000013|name=Doris Day
*http://www.dorisday.net/ Another filmography and
fan page
*http://www.legacyrecordings.com/dorisday/discogra
phy.html A discography of her work
*http://www.parabrisas.com/d_dayd.html Another
discography
*http://www.ddal.org Doris Day Animal League

*http://www.dorisday.de.vu Inoffizielle Doris Day
Online Vita
*http://www.dorisdaytribute.com/ Doris Day tribute
page
*http://www.mp3.com/doris-day/artists/2577/biograp
hy.html Biography on the MP3.com site