Everyone’s life is finally seized by the twilight and yesterday the movie actress Doris Day was promoted to the stars.
The Cincinnati native sought to be a dancer. A car accident curtailed that dream, however during the recovery the fifteen year-old discovered an unknown talent. “I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller”, she told A.E. Hotchner, one of her biographers. “But the one radio voice I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I’d sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.”
Her first professional gig was at Charlie Yee’s Shanghai Inn, where her voice attracted the attention of orchestra leader Barney Rapp, who suggested the blonde songbird drop the name Kappelhoff in favor of Day. It was all up from there.
She was America’s sweetheart.
Clean, blonde, and white.
She was no square no matter how her publicist painted her image.
Hitchcock’s THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH was one of the few movies the Sisters Of The Foothills played on special movie days.
Doris Day was pure.
She was friends with Rock Hudson.
Day stayed with Rock to the end.
She wasn’t perfect.
Who is?
Doris Day in the 50s was a goddess of the American Dream.
Then again so was Marilyn Monroe.
Not to mention Lena Horne.