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Doris Day
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff (April 3, 1922[1] – May 13, 2019) was an Americansinger, actress and animalwelfareactivist. She is known for her blonde, wholesome image. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. All her grandparents were Germanimmigrants.
Career
[change | change source]Singing
[change | change source]She sang with the big bands. She started with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. Her first hit song was Sentimental Journey. This song was popular with soldiers returning from World War 2.[2]
Acting
[change | change source]She made (or appeared in) many movies from 1948 to 1968.[3] Three of these movies also starred Rock Hudson.[4][5]
Personal life and death
[change | change source]Day was married to Al Jorden from 1941 until they divorced in 1943. She was married to George Weidler from 1946 until they divorced in 1949. She was married to Martin Melcher from 1951 until his death in 1968. She was marri
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Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
This article is about the American actress and singer. For other uses, see Doris Day (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Dorothy Day.
Doris Day | |
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Day in a Publicity portrait. | |
| Born | Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff (1922-04-03)April 3, 1922 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 13, 2019(2019-05-13) (aged 97) Carmel Valley, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1937–2012 |
| Spouses | Al Jorden (m. 1941; div. 1943)George Weidler (m. 1946; div. 1949)Martin Melcher (m. 1951; died 1968)Barry Comden (m. 1976; div. 1982) |
| Children | Terry Melcher |
| Website | dorisday.com |
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an
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Doris Day was a conservative icon amid a turbulent counterculture. But her life belied her persona.
Doris Day, who has died at 97 in her home in California, was a movie star unique even among other movie stars of her era. Her brand of effortless charm and wholesome femininity made her the embodiment of the ideal woman during the late ’50s and early ’60s. She was simultaneously virginal yet sexy, career-focused yet domestic, elegant yet approachable; she didn’t just “enjoy being a girl” — she presented an uncomplicated, nigh-mythical image of womanhood.
Yet Day’s peppy all-American girl persona belied a career full of hard work that made her far more realistic than she seemed — and even as she represented a vanishing vision of the perfect woman, her own life was an example of just how far removed that image was from reality.
Day was the ultimate paradox of the early 1960s: the sexual virgin
Born in Cincinnati in 1922 as Dor