Doris Day

Doris Day
Singer, Actress

Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff was born on April 3, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio in United States. His paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States in 1875 from Germany. Dorris developed an early interest in dance and in the mid-1930s formed a dance duo with Jerry Doherty that performed in competitions nationwide. On October 13, 1937, Doris broke her right leg in an accident. Doris often listened to the radio while her leg was recovering. Ella Fitzgerald voice impressed her a lot.

While Doris was taking singing lessons for eight months, Doris got her first professional job as a vocalist on WLW radio and at a local restaurant. He worked in the Barney Rapp group. In 1939, Rapp proposed the stage name Doris Day. After working with Rapp, Doris worked with bandleaders Jimmy James and Bob Crosby. Doris was first married in April 1941 to trombonist Al Jorden. They were divorced in February 1943. They had a son.

In 1941, Doris appeared as a vocalist in three Soundies with the Les Brown Band. Doris recorded her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", released in early 1945. During 1945–46, Doris had six more top ten hits on the Billboard charts. "As a singer, Doris belongs in the company of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra," said Les Brown. Doris married second to George William Weidler on March 30, 1946 and divorced on May 31, 1949.

Doris left Les Brown to pursue a solo career and recorded over 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. His film career began with "Romance on the High Seas" (1948). In 1950, he collaborated as a singer with polka musician Frankie Yankovic and was voted their favorite star by US troops in Korea.

Doris 3rd married American film producer Martin Melcher on April 3, 1951. The marriage lasted until her husband's death in April 1968. From 1959 to 1970, Doris received four Laurel Awards for female performance. After ending her film career in 1968, she starred in her own television sitcom, The Doris Day Show (1968–1973). Doris' fourth marriage was to Barry Comden from April 14, 1976 to April 2, 1982.

In 1989, Day was awarded a Golden Globe and Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures. In 2004, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, he was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.

Doris died on May 13, 2019, at the age of 97 at her home in Carmel Valley, California. At Doris' request, the foundation has announced that there will be no funeral services, grave markers or other public memorials.

Doris Day Songs

* My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time (1945)

* Sentimental Journey (1945)

* You Won't be Satisfied (1946)

* It's Magic (1948)

* Love Somebody - Doris Day and Buddy Clark (1948)

* A Guy is a Guy (1952)

* If I Give My Heart to You (1954)

* Secret Love (1954)

* Que sera sera (1956)

* Tunnel of Love (1958)

* Everybody Loves a Lover (1958)

More about Doris Day

Doris Day photo shoot in 1945.

Doris Day photo shoot in 1948.

Doris Day in a scene from her first movie 'Romance on the High Seas'. The movie released on 25th June 1948.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'It's a Great Feeling'. The movie released on 1st August 1949.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Young Man with a Horn'. The movie released on 9th February 1950.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'The West Point Story'. The movie released on 1950.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Lullaby of Broadway'. The movie released on 26the March 1951.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Starlift'. The movie released on 14th December 1951.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'The Winning Team'. The movie released on 20th June 1952.

Doris Day photo shoot in 1953.

Doris Day photo shoot in 1955.

Doris Day at her home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California in 1955.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Love Me or Leave Me'. The movie released on 26th May 1955.

Doris Day in France in 1956.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Julie'. The movie released on 17th October 1956.

Doris Day and Marty Melcher at the Desert Inn, Palm Springs, 1957.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'The Tunnel of Love'. The movie released on 21st November 1958.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'It Happened to Jane'. The movie released on 24th May 1959.

Doris Day in a scene from the movie 'Pillow Talk'. The movie released on 1959.

Doris Day photo shoot in 1960.

Doris Day signs her name in cement by her handprints, in front of Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theater, on Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California on 19th January 1961.