Doris Day Biography

Birthday: 1924-04-03
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Wiki Biography: One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff 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?
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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West Point Story | 1950 | Comedy | |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Kate Robinson Mackay | 1960 | Comedy |
The Doris Day Show | Doris Martin | 1968 | Comedy |
Doris Day's Best Friends | Herself - Host | 1985 | Family |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Romance on the High Seas | 1948 | 0, 0 | |
My Dream Is Yours | Martha Gibson | 1949 | 0, 0 |
Young Man with a Horn | 1950 | Drama, Music | |
Tea for Two | Nanette Carter | 1950 | Comedy, Musical, Romance |
On Moonlight Bay | Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield | 1951 | 0, 0 |
Lullaby of Broadway | 1951 | 0 | |
April in Paris | 1952 | Biography, 0 | |
The Winning Team | 1952 | 0 | |
Calamity Jane | Calamity Jane | 1953 | Comedy, Musical |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon | Marjorie Winfield | 1954 | Comedy, Family, Musical |
Love Me or Leave Me | Ruth Etting | 1955 | Biography, 0 |
The Man Who Knew Too Much | Josephine Conway McKenna | 1956 | Game Show, 0, Comedy |
Julie | Julie Benton | 1956 | Game Show |
The Pajama Game | 1957 | Comedy, Musical, Romance | |
It Happened to Jane | 1959 | 0 | |
The Tunnel of Love | 1959 | Comedy, Romance | |
Pillow Talk | Jan Morrow | 1959 | Comedy, Romance |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Kate Mackay | 1960 | 0, 0 |
Midnight Lace | Kit Preston | 1960 | Thriller, Mystery |
Billy Rose's Jumbo | Kitty Wonder | 1962 | |
Lover Come Back | 1962 | Comedy, Romance | |
That Touch of Mink | Cathy Timberlake | 1962 | Comedy, Romance |
Move Over, Darling | Ellen Wagstaff Arden | 1963 | 0 |
The Thrill Of It All | Beverly Boyer | 1963 | Comedy, Romance |
Send Me No Flowers | 1964 | Biography | |
The Glass Bottom Boat | Jennifer Nelson | 1966 | Comedy, Romance |
Caprice | Patricia Foster | 1967 | Comedy, Crime, Thriller |
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | 1968 | Comedy | |
With Six You Get Eggroll | Abby McClure | 1968 | Comedy, Drama, Family |
Teacher's Pet | Erica Stone | 2000 | Reality Tv |