This is Biography Doris Day Born Doris von Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 3 April 1922, the beautiful and sweet Doris Day had already achieved a certain notoriety as a singer before her film debut, thanks to director Michael Curtiz who wrote her for his musical ‘Romance on the High Seas’ (1948).Doris Day has portrayed on the screen the image of the clean-cut girl, sweet and sensitive, gently witty and with good morals. What one might commonly call the true ‘girl next door’.
Blonde and with a dazzling smile, Doris went from appearing in supporting roles – as a typical ‘girl next door’ – in musicals, to starring in numerous films modelled on her character.
Despite her ability as a brilliant actress, she is generally sought after for her remarkable singing skills. Her performances were considered the highlight in most of her films. Among them, “Don’t Shoot, Kiss Me!” (Calamity Jane, 1953) by David Butler, “Love Me or Leave Me” (1955) by Charles Vidor, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956) by Alfred Hitchcock, a disturbing thriller in which she also sings the famous theme song “Que sera sera” by Jay Livingstone, and “The Pajama Game” (1957) by Stanley Donen are probably her best performances.
Despite her ability as a brilliant actress, she is generally sought after for her remarkable singing skills. Her performances were considered the highlight in most of her films. Among them, “Don’t Shoot, Kiss Me!” (Calamity Jane, 1953) by David Butler, “Love Me or Leave Me” (1955) by Charles Vidor, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956) by Alfred Hitchcock, a disturbing thriller in which she also sings the famous theme song “Que sera sera” by Jay Livingstone, and “The Pajama Game” (1957) by Stanley Donen are probably her best performances.
Doris Day’s records are among the earliest examples of popular pop music, and she was a role model for many teenagers. With her healthy, vivacious appearance, full of energy and completely devoid of sophistication, Day was to be a true icon of optimism, representing the model of the enterprising and jovial American woman of the post-war period.
Her career would be particularly rich in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when a series of comedies with strong allusive connotations, such as Michael Gordon’s Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961) and Lover Come Back (1961), were produced. Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962), both by Delbert Mann, and Norman Jewison’s The Thrill of It All (1963), in which she sometimes appeared alongside Rock Hudson, were accepted by the public precisely because of the ‘morality’ of her image. But it is precisely this image of ‘purity’ that will contribute to her decline, due to the sexual liberation of the late 1960s.
In 1968, after the death of her husband, Doris Day discovered that he had taken advantage of his condition by giving away her entire fortune. She began working in television productions, never to appear on film again, and devoted herself mainly to caring for abandoned animals in California, where she founded the “Doris Day Animal League” based in Carmel.
Discography
1949: You’re My Thrill
1950: Young Man with a Horn
1950: Tea for Two
1951: Lullaby of Broadway
1951: On Moonlight Bay
1951: I’ll See You in My Dreams
1953: By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953: Calamity Jane
1954: Young at Heart
1955: Love Me or Leave Me
1955: Day Dreams
1956: Day by Day
1957: The Pajama Game
1957: Day by Night
1958: Hooray for Hollywood
1959: Cuttin’ Capers
1960: What Every Girl Should Know
1960: Show Time
1961: Bright and Shiny
1961: I Have Dreamed
1962: Duet
1962: You’ll Never Walk Alone
1962: Billy Rose’s Jumbo
1963: Annie Get Your Gun
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
1994: The Love Album
2011: My Heart
