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Doris Day
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned 75 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice…
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entertainment · American actress and singer (1922–2019) · film actor · singer · television actor · recording artist · actor · politician · musician · also Doris Day, Doris Mary Kappelhoff, Day
Born 3 April 1922 · Died 13 May 2019 · Q104372
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2026· 5 entries
“He was very sick. But I just brushed that off and I came out and put my arms around him and said,”
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “Songs Selected From Young At Heart (Restored 2024)”.
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Yahoo: Doris Day and Rock Hudson: Their On Screen Magic
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2023· 2 entries
Yahoo: 19 Doris Day Movies That Show Just How Talented the Starlet Really Was
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Released album “The Complete Columbia Singles, Volume 3 (1950)”.
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Doris Day remembered at the Oscars ceremony
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2019· 17 entries
People: Doris Day's Grandson Claims Her Business Manager Forbade Him from Seeing Her in Her Final Years
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Page Six: Doris Day’s grandson says manager prevented him from seeing her
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The Guardian: Doris Day’s public image was the one role she could never shake off | Hadley Freeman
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Los Angeles Times: Doris Day’s screen-style legacy for working women was all about what to wear — not bare
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The Guardian: A look back at Doris Day's most celebrated roles – video obituary
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The Guardian: 'Innocent, cheerful, caring': readers' tribute to Doris Day
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Fox News: Paul Batura: Doris Day’s life was more than ‘Que Sera, Sera’ -- Because our ultimate future is ours to see
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The Guardian: Doris Day obituary
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The Guardian: Doris Day, celebrated actor and singer, dies aged 97
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The Guardian: Doris Day: the wholesome face of postwar American optimism
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The Guardian: Doris Day: a life in pictures
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People: Doris Day Mourned by Paul McCartney, William Shatner, Goldie Hawn and More Hollywood Stars
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Fox News: Doris Day Wikipedia page defaced with graphic image after her death
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Died 2019-05-13.
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The day after her 97th birthday, Day talked about her work on the Doris Day Animal Foundation, founded in 1978
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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
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“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘Age is just a number’: Doris Day turns 95 – two years earlier than planned
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Released album “Doris Day: Young At Heart”.
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2016· 1 entry
That was accompanied by photos of her life and career
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2015· 3 entries
The Guardian: Doris Day denies role in new Clint Eastwood film
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The Guardian: Doris Day at 17 in Mr Celebrity as she reportedly plans return to the big screen – video
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The Guardian: Doris Day reportedly lured out of retirement by Clint Eastwood
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Doris Day honoured with a season of films in London: From the archive, 10 December 1980
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2011· 6 entries
Released album “My Heart”.
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (2011).
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Her first new album since the 1994 release of The Love Album, which was recorded in 1967
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In Murchison, Texas on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by Day's late friend, author Cleveland Amory
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The Canadian magazine Gay Globe paid tribute to Day by featuring her on the cover of their #79 edition
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Was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2008).
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Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007).
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And in 2010 received the first Legend Award presented by the Society of Singers
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2004· 3 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2004).
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Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W
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Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Doris Day”.
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Released album “As Time Goes By”.
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Released album “Golden Greats”.
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Released album “I’ll See You in My Dreams / Calamity Jane”.
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Released album “The Doris Day Collection”.
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2000· 10 entries
Released album “The Formative Years”.
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Released album “I'll Never Stop Loving You”.
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Released album “The Great Doris Day”.
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Released album “The Essential Love Songs”.
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Released album “Doris Day”.
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Released album “Hit Singles From The Early Years”.
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Released album “It’s Magic: Greatest Hits 1945–1950”.
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Released album “On Moonlight Bay / By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “Favourites”.
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1999· 5 entries
Released album “Que Sera, Sera 1956-1959”.
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Released album “Golden Girl”.
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Released album “What Every Girl Should Know / Sentimental Journey”.
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Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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Released album “The Magic of the Movies”.
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Pillow Talk: 25 Greatest Hits”.
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1998).
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1999 and 2012 for her recordings of "Sentimental Journey", "Secret Love" and "Que Sera, Sera", respectively
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Released album “It's Magic: Her Early Years at Warner Brothers”.
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1997· 5 entries
Released album “Hooray for Hollywood, Vol. 1 / Hooray for Hollywood, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Que Será, Será”.
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Released album “The Best of Doris Day”.
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Released album “Daydreaming: The Very Best of Doris Day”.
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Released album “Move Over Darling”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “I Have Dreamed / Listen to Day”.
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Released album “16 Most Requested Songs, Encore!”.
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1995· 8 entries
Released album “'s Wonderful”.
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Released album “Collection”.
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Released album “Sentimental Journey”.
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Released album “Secret Love: The Magic of Doris Day”.
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Released album “Secret Love 1951-1955”.
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Released album “Sentimental Journey / Latin for Lovers”.
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Released album “Latin for Lovers / Love Him”.
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Originated the annual World Spay Day
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1994· 8 entries
Released album “The Great Vocalists”.
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Day's Greatest Hits album entered the British charts
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Released album “Show Time / Day in Hollywood”.
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Released album “The Love Album”.
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Released album “Day by Day / Day by Night”.
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Released album “Cuttin’ Capers / Bright & Shiny”.
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Released album “Personal Christmas Collection”.
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Released album “Her Greatest Hits And Finest Performances”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “The Hit Singles Collection”.
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Released album “It's Magic”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “16 Most Requested Songs”.
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Released album “Bright and Shiny”.
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Released album “Complete Doris Day With Les Brown”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Doris Day's Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Best of Big Bands”.
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1989· 3 entries
Day was awarded the Golden Globe and the Cecil B
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Released album “Sings Songs From The Warner Brothers Pictures Calamity Jane & The Pajama Game”.
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Released album “A Portrait of Doris Day”.
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1988· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1988).
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Released album “Her Heart-Touching Hits”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “A Day at the Movies”.
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1987· 5 entries
Released album “The Girl Next Door”.
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A national nonprofit citizens' lobbying organization on behalf of animals
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Released album “The Great Movie Stars: Doris Day”.
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Released album “Sings 22 Original Recordings (1952-53)”.
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Released album “Through the Eyes of Love”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Uncollected Vol.2 1952-53 Doris Day With The Page Cavanaugh Trio”.
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1985· 1 entry
Recorded new songs, which were released in 2011 as My Heart
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Ihre schönsten Songs”.
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1981).
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1978· 1 entry
Day founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF)
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1971· 1 entry
Cofounded Actors and Others for Animals and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur along with Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson and Jayne Meadows
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1970· 1 entry
For $7 million, and their estimated worth by 1986 was $50 million
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1969· 1 entry
And won in 1974, but did not receive compensation until a settlement was reached in 1979
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1968· 5 entries
And featured a rerecorded version of "Que Sera, Sera" as its theme song
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Day was shocked to discover that Melcher and his business partner and advisor Jerome Bernard Rosenthal had squandered her earnings, leaving her deeply in debt
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Released album “Whatever Will Be, Will Be”.
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Starred in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out
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Starred in her own television sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973)
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “Sings Her Great Movie Hits”.
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1965· 3 entries
Released album “Latin for Lovers”.
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When the label dismissed long-running pop division head Mitch Miller and hired new, young, rock-focused management, ending her active career as a recording artist
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Released album “With A Smile And A Song”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “The Doris Day Christmas Album”.
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Released album “Love Him”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Annie Get Your Gun”.
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1962· 4 entries
Awarded Henrietta Award (1962).
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Released album “You'll Never Walk Alone”.
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Released album “Billy Rose's Jumbo”.
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Released album “Duet”.
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “I Have Dreamed”.
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Released album “Wonderful Day”.
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Released album “Bright & Shiny”.
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “Listen To Day”.
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Released album “What Every Girl Should Know”.
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Released album “Show Time”.
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1959· 4 entries
Awarded Henrietta Award (1959).
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Released album “Hooray for Hollywood, Volume II”.
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Day entered her most successful phase as a film actress with a series of romantic comedies beginning with Pillow Talk (1959), costarring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall
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“had such fun working with my pal, Rock. We laughed our way through three films we made together and remained great friends. I miss him.”
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “Doris Day’s Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Cuttin’ Capers”.
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Released album “Hooray for Hollywood”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “Day by Night”.
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Awarded Henrietta Award (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Released album “Day by Day”.
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Day starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film The Man Who Knew Too Much opposite James Stewart
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Day Dreams”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “The Voice of Your Choice”.
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1951· 2 entries
Her 29th birthday; gossip columnists had written of their mutual interest as early as autumn 1949
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Released album “Lullaby Of Broadway”.
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1950· 1 entry
Collaborated as a singer with the polka musician Frankie Yankovic, and the U
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1949· 1 entry
Released album “You're My Thrill”.
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1942· 2 entries
And he adopted the surname of Melcher when he was adopted by Day's third husband
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Their son was born Terrence Paul Jorden in 1942, and he adopted the surname of Melcher when he was adopted by Day's third husband.
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1941· 1 entry
Day appeared as a singer in three Soundies with the Les Brown band
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1939· 1 entry
Rapp suggested the stage name Doris Day because the Kappelhoff surname was too long for marquees and he admired her rendition of the song "Day After Day"
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1937· 2 entries
While Day was riding with friends, their car collided with a freight train, and she broke her right leg, curtailing her prospects as a professional dancer
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Achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No
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1924· 1 entry
But on the occasion of her 95th birthday, the Associated Press found her birth certificate that showed a 1922 year of birth
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1922· 2 entries
Born 1922-04-03.
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In Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of German-American parents Alma Sophia (née Welz; 1895–1976) and William Joseph Kappelhoff (1892–1967)
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1875· 1 entry
And settled within the large German community in Cincinnati
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