Doris Day (1922-2019)
Doris Day (1922-2019)
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She
began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in
1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My
Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of
Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650
songs from 1947 to 1967.
Day's film career began during the latter part of the Golden
Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a
20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many
genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the
title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man
Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in
which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for
which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked
with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All
(1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David
Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren
Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968,
only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own
sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).
Day became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s,
and as of 2012 was one of eight performers to have been the top box-office
earner in the United States four times. In 2011, she released her 29th
studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10
album. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award
from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Actress, and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime
achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles
Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.
Achievements:
Charities:
Doris Day Animal League*
*The DDAL merged into The Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS) in 2006
Spay Day USA now World Spay Day*
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