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Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Wiki Biography

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, born on the 3rd of April, 1922, is an American actress and singer who became a family name in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and whose career has now expanded for over five decades. She became known particularly for her songs “Sentimental Journey” and “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”, and for her films “Calamity Jane” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”

So how much is Day’s net worth? As of early 2018, based on authoritative sources it is reported to be over $20 million, acquired from her years as a singer and actress which began in the late 1930s.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Day is the daughter of Alma Sophia, a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a choir master and music teacher; she has two siblings, Richard and Paul. Growing up, she always had a passion for dancing, and even formed a duo with Jerry Doherty during the mid-1930s, and together they performed around Cincinnati. Unfortunately, Day was in a car accident and damaged her right leg, preventing her from pursuing a career in dancing.

While taking a rest due to her accident, Day discovered another talent. While humming songs heard on the radio, her mother realized that she had the potential to become a singer, and had her take singing lessons with voice coach Grace Raine, who also recognized her talent, and even offered her a discount for their lessons. At the age 15, Day was able to get professional work as a singer for radio programs, and eventually local bandleader Barney Rapp asked her to audition for his band, and she got the job. It was also Rapp who suggested that she changed her name to something shorter, since Kappelhoff was too long to be put on a marquee. Her rendition of the song “Day After Day” became the inspiration for her new last name.

Day eventually parted ways with Rapp, but was able to work with other bandleaders, including Les Brown and Bob Crosby. In was in 1945 when her song entitled “Sentimental Journey” became her first major hit, followed in 1947 by another songs which became a hit entitled “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”, and led her to sign a contract with Columbia Records. Her early years as a singer certainly established her career, and laid the basis of her net worth.

In 1948, while singing “Embraceable You”, songwriter Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn saw Day and recommended her for a role in “Romance on the High Seas”, which saw her open another door for her career in the form of acting. Day’s career in movies started with period musicals including “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” and “Tea For Two”, but eventually she did more mainstream films including “I’ll See You in My Dreams” and “Calamity Jane”, that became huge successes at the box office. Her love for music also helped, as she was able to sing songs in several movies that she did. One in particular was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, with “Que Sera, Sera, (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Day also became a pioneer for what is called bedroom comedies in films, which was evident in her movies “Pillow Talk” and “Move Over, Darling”. Over a span of 20 years from 1948 to 1968 she appeared in 39 feature films, until she transitioned to television. Her career in movies also established her as one of the most successful actresses of all time, and tremendously increased her net worth.

After a successful career in movies Day moved to television, and starred in “The Doris Day Show” from 1968 to 1973. Although she only did it to honor her contracts that her late husband, Martin Melcher, entered her into without her knowing, the show still won a Golden Globe award in 1969.

Today, Day may not be active in show business, but is now a well-known animal welfare activist, and has several foundations under her name, continuing to fight for the rights of various animals.

In terms of her personal life, Day has been married four times, firstly to Al Jorden (1941 to 1943) with whom she had her only son Terry, secondly was Georg William Weidler (1946 to 1949), and third was Martin Melcher (1951 to 1968). Her last husband was Barry Comden (1976 to 1981), since when she has officially been single.

Doris Day also wrote her autobiography in 1976, entitled “Doris Day – Her Own Story.”

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Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Quick Info

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Trademarks

1. Portrayals of independent working women
2. Blonde hair and blue eyes
3. Youthful appearance
4. Theme song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)”, which she introduced in the film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Quotes

• If I come across a doggie who needs a home, that’s when I take them. They’re in a special area – an outdoor area – but the ceiling is all glass and they look up there and see the trees. They have two big rooms inside and then one outside. They just love it.
• [on the popularity of ‘Que Sera Sera’] I thought that was wonderful, because it became that because of children. And then I understood it. Because it was for our child in the movie [The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)]. Then I realized, maybe it isn’t a favorite song of mine, but people loved it. And kids loved it. And it was perfect for the film. So I can’t say that it’s a favorite song of mine, but, boy, it sure did something.
• [on recovering from injuries sustained in a 1937 car accident] During this long, boring period, 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. 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.
• [on singing ‘Que Sera Sera’ in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)] The first time somebody told me it was going to be in that movie, I thought, “Why?” I didn’t think there was a place to put that song. I thought, “I’m not crazy about that. Where are they going to put it? For what?” I didn’t think it was a good song.
• [on the independent working women she usually played in her romantic comedies] I didn’t feel different in any of them, even though they were different. I loved being married, and I loved not being married but working on it. And doing what I was supposed to do and be. That’s the way I worked.
• I like to sing love songs. I like to sing others, too. There’s so many that I love. I love them and I love singing them.
• [1996, on learning that husband Martin Melcher had committed to her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show (1968), after his death] It was awful. I was really, really not very well when Marty passed away, and the thought of going into TV was overpowering. But he’d signed me up for a series. And then my son Terry [Terry Melcher] took me walking in Beverly Hills and explained that it wasn’t nearly the end of it. I had also been signed up for a bunch of TV specials, all without anyone ever asking me.
• [on Pillow Talk (1959)] Every day on the set was a picnic – sometimes too much of a picnic, in that we took turns at breaking each other up.
• I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
• I liked being married instead of the girl who’s looking for a guy.
• [2006, on the mistreatment of animals in cinema] Everything’s acceptable in Hollywood now, it seems. I’m glad I’m not there, because I would be screaming. I hope and pray that the Hollywood stars who are making so much money really take a stand. It’s hideous to have families watching these movies, and children seeing this portrayed as though it’s okay.
• [2006, regarding the mistreatment of animals on the set of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)] Oh, well, I didn’t want to act like a big shot; it wasn’t like that. But I did go to Mr. Hitchcock [director Alfred Hitchcock], whom I loved dearly, and we had a long talk about it. I said “Hitch, I can’t bear it, I can’t bear to see what goes on here with animals.” The horses were so thin, the donkeys were overburdened, and I was just horrified at the dogs running loose and starving. I told him I really couldn’t work unless we fed these animals. And he said, “We’re going to do that, I want you to just relax and know that they will be taken care of.” But then I thought, once we leave, it will go right back to the way it was.
• [on The Doris Day Show (1968)] There was a contract. I didn’t know about it. I never wanted to do TV, but I gave it 100% anyway. That’s the only way I know how to do it.
• [2006] I had the best co-stars you could ever have, and I miss them so much. We had such a great time working together. Some years ago, I made a special with John Denver and was asked to sing “Memories”, Barbra Streisand’s song, which she did so beautifully. Then I was told that huge pictures of all of my leading men would be shown as I sang, and I said, “Oh my God, how do you expect me to get though that?” But I did it.
• I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
• I don’t even like parties.
• Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
• [2006] By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) and On Moonlight Bay (1951) – I loved doing those. You know, if life could be like it was in those movies, it would be beautiful, wouldn’t it?
• If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
• Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
• [2006, on the Katrina rescue effort] Some [of the rescued animals] were quite ill and couldn’t be put on the plane, so people drove to the Gulf Coast and brought the sick ones back by car. Both groups were accompanied by a veterinarian. They’re coming in every few days from Santa Cruz and whenever they’re brought in, I’m there. The hard part is that I want them all! There’s another thing I’d like to mention here. People sometimes say, “Oh, Miss Day, I can’t take another animal, I just can’t replace my darling little dog.” Many people, when they lose their pet, can’t face getting another. I felt like that once, and then I realized my baby would understand, and would want me to give a home to another animal. I want people to know they’re not replacing the one they lost. They’re giving another wonderful little soul a home. I’ve done this over and over again, and have never regretted it. I’ve only been rewarded.
• [2014] I love to be outside, walking along the beach or working in my garden. Those things are all quite enjoyable for me. I have everything I could ever want right here in Carmel!
• [2014, on her health at age 90] Oh, I have my little aches and pains now and then, like everyone. But I’ve truly been blessed with good health.
• [2014] Would you believe I’m still offered scripts and projects all the time? Every once in a while I think about working again, but they don’t make the kind of movies I made anymore! It’s a different world.
• [2014] My days are busy responding to the huge volume of mail I receive. I’m still floored by all the beautiful, heartwarming letters from people all over the world, telling me that my work somehow touched their lives.
• [2014] All I ever wanted in my life was to get married, have kids, keep house and cook, and even though I did all these things, I still ended up in Hollywood. It was a great trip. I’ve had an amazing life and wonderful times. And I’m happy!
• [2014] Helping animals has been a lifelong passion. They give us unconditional love and ask very little in return.
• [2006] I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls – you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up? I’ve always been like that. I’ve always said, “No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up”.
• [1975, on her late husband Martin Melcher] There was no funeral. No family gathering. Nothing. Marty was cremated without ceremony of any kind. That’s the way he wanted it. I knew this, not from his instructions about his own death, which he had not anticipated, but from his remarks about funerals of departed friends, none of which we ever attended. I shared Marty’s antipathy to funerals. I think grief is a very private matter, and that the public nature of a funeral is barbaric.
• [1975] I was offered the part of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967) but I could not see myself rolling around in the sheets with a young man half my age whom I’d seduced. I realized it was an effective part but it offended my sense of values. Of course, in the years since then, explicit sex has become commonplace on the screen-so commonplace that it is considered novel when a film appears without a few naked bodies thrashing about. Now I really don’t put anybody else down for doing such scenes. To each his own. Many actors enjoy doing these turns, and obviously many people enjoy watching them. I don’t, either doing or watching. I can’t picture myself in bed with a man, all the crew around us, doing that which I consider so exciting and exalting when it is very personal and private. I am really appalled by some of the public exhibitions on the screen by good actors and actresses who certainly have the talent to convey what they are doing without showing us to the last detail of pubic hair and rosy nipple how they are doing it.
• [1975] The picture I made with Kirk Douglas, Young Man with a Horn (1950), was one of the few utterly joyless experiences I had in films. I was made to feel like an outsider, an intruder. Kirk and Betty [Lauren Bacall] had gone together once, and this picture brought them back together again, so I guess that had something to do with it. Kirk was civil to me and that’s about all. But then Kirk never makes much of an effort toward anyone else. He’s pretty much wrapped up in himself.
• [dismissing allegations that she “stole” husband Martin Melcher from his former wife, singer Patty Andrews] A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.
• [on Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds] When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck, I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
• [1975] You don’t really know a person until you live with him, not just sleep with him. Sex is not enough to sustain marriage. I have the unfortunate reputation of being Miss Goody Two-shoes, America’s Virgin, and all that, so I’m afraid it’s going to shock some people for me to say this, but I staunchly believe no two people should get married until they have lived together. The young people have it right. What a tragedy it is for a couple to get married, have a child, and in the process discover they are not suited for one another! If I had lived with Al Jorden for a few weeks, God knows I would never have married him. Nor would I have married George Weidler. But I was too young and too inexperienced to understand any of this. Now my heart was busted and I had lost my way.
• [during the re-election campaign of President George W. Bush] I’m pulling for him every step of the way.
• The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant’s widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my “image”, which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
• [on Cary Grant] A completely private person, totally reserved, and there is no way into him.
• [on Ronald Reagan] Ronnie is really the only man I’ve ever known who loved dancing.
• [on Rock Hudson] I call him Ernie, because he’s certainly no Rock.
• If there is a Heaven, I’m sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
• Almost all of Julie (1956) was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy. We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.
• [on recording ‘Secret Love’ for the movie Calamity Jane (1953)] When I first heard ‘Secret Love’, I almost fainted; it was so beautiful. When we finally got around to doing the pre-recording, Ray Heindorf, the musical director at Warner’s, said he’d get the musicians in about 12:30 so they could rehearse. That morning, I did my vocal warm-up, then jumped on my bike and rode over to Warner’s – we lived in Toluca Lake at the time, which was just minutes from the studio. When I got there, I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time. When I’d finished, Ray called me into the sound booth, grinning from ear to ear, and said, “That’s it. You’re never going to do it better.” That was the first and only take we did.
• Learning a part was like acting out the lyrics of a song.
• I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say “Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!”. But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn’t see that at all. He comes out depressed.
• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
• The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Important Facts

• She and Mary Wickes appeared together in four movies: On Moonlight Bay (1951), I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951), By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), and It Happened to Jane (1959). Wickes also guest-starred on the first season of Day’s TV series The Doris Day Show (1968).
• As of 2017 she and Dorothy Malone are the last surviving cast members of Young at Heart (1954).
• Third husband Martin Melcher produced 18 of her movies between 1956 and his death in 1968, as well as working as executive producer on the first season of her CBS series The Doris Day Show (1968). In her 1975 autobiography, Day revealed that, by the mid-1960s, Melcher was signing her onto films without asking her whether or not she actually wanted to do them first. She did not like the scripts for Do Not Disturb (1965), The Ballad of Josie (1967), Caprice (1967), and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968), but was forced to do the movies because Melcher had control over her career. She also did not find out he had signed her up for “The Doris Day Show” until after his death.
• Co-starred with ex-partner Jack Carson in 3 films: Romance on the High Seas (1948), My Dream Is Yours (1949), and It’s a Great Feeling (1949).
• Co-starred with Rock Hudson and Tony Randall in 3 films: Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). In all three, Day and Hudson played love interests while Randall played Hudson’s close friend.
• Co-starred with Gordon MacRae in 5 films: Tea for Two (1950), The West Point Story (1950), On Moonlight Bay (1951), Starlift (1951), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).
• Had a relationship with Peter Helm.
• As of 2016 she is the 6th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward and Shirley MacLaine. She was nominated in 1959 for Pillow Talk (1959).
• Co-starred with Elisabeth Fraser in 4 films: Young at Heart (1954), The Tunnel of Love (1958), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), and The Ballad of Josie (1967).
• Co-starred with Gig Young in 4 films: Young at Heart (1954), Teacher’s Pet (1958), The Tunnel of Love (1958), and That Touch of Mink (1962).
• She turned down the role of Maria in The Sound of Music (1965) with the explanation: “I’m too American to play a nun from Austria.”.
• She is the oldest of the six surviving people mentioned by name in the 1989 Billy Joel song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. The other five are Queen Elizabeth II, Brigitte Bardot, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan and Bernard Goetz.
• Was longtime friends with the late Julie London.
• Her only child Terry Melcher died of melanoma on November 19, 2004 aged 62.
• Manages the Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California which advocates homes and proper care of household pets. [June 2008]
• Tinseltown folklore insists she was “discovered” by director Michael Curtiz, when she sang at a Hollywood party in 1948. At the time, Curtiz was seeking a singer/actress to replace Betty Hutton, who had become pregnant and had to back out of Romance on the High Seas (1948), which Curtiz was to direct.
• Ex-mother-in-law of Jacqueline Carlin.
• Underwent a hysterectomy during the filming of Julie (1956) after being diagnosed with a tumour the size of a grapefruit that was growing into her intestines.
• Has one grandson: Ryan Melcher (born May 1983).
• Oscar Levant quipped, “I’ve been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”. This was first said by Groucho Marx.
• Received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
• She was scheduled to present, along with Patrick Swayze and Marvin Hamlisch, the Best Original Score Oscar at the 61st Annual Academy Awards (March 1989) but she suffered a deep leg cut and was unable to attend. She had been walking through the gardens of the hotel she owns when she cut her leg on a sprinkler. The cut required stitches.
• While performing for a local radio station, Doris was approached by band leader Barney Rapp. Rapp felt that Doris’s name, Kappelhoff, was too harsh and awkward and that she should change her name to something more pleasant. The name “Day” was suggested by Rapp from one of the songs in Doris’ repertoire, “Day by Day”. She didn’t like the name at first feeling that it sounded too much like a burlesque performer.
• Her first marriage at age 17 to trombone player Al Jordan, whom she met while both were performing in Barney Rapp’s band, was extremely unhappy. They divorced within two years amid reports of Jordan’s alcoholism and abuse of the young star. Despondent and feeling his life had little meaning after the much publicized divorce, Jordan later committed suicide.
• In 1976, Doris married Barry Comden, 12 years her junior. They met at the Beverly Hills Old World Restaurant where he was the maitre d’. In the 1970s, Comden opened an Old World restaurant in Westwood and supervised the construction of another restaurant, Tony Roma’s, in Palm Springs. It was Comden who came up with the idea for a line of pet food that would feature Doris’ name. Doris Day Distributing Co. unraveled mainly because of a pyramid-type scheme that the couple had been unaware of. They lived in Carmel but Comden complained that Day preferred the company of her dogs more than him and they divorced in 1981.
• Doris’ second husband was saxophone player and former child actor George Weidler. His sister was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer child actress Virginia Weidler.
• The film The Children’s Hour (1961) was constructed with both Day and Katharine Hepburn as the two leading ladies. However both actresses backed out due to scheduling conflicts and as a result Shirley MacLaine was cast in Hepburn’s role and Audrey Hepburn was cast in Day’s role.
• Was good friends with Judy Garland after meeting her on the Warner Bros. lots. She was filming Young at Heart (1954) as Garland was filming A Star Is Born (1954).
• Was in a relationship with Jack Carson early in her career before leaving him for Martin Melcher.
• Her dreams of a dancing career were dashed when a car accident on October 13, 1937 badly damaged her legs. She spent most of her teenage years wheelchair-bound and during this time began singing on the radio.
• Went to the same Cincinnati ballroom dance studio as a child as Vera-Ellen. Their parents used to carpool together to the dance studio.
• She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Recording at 6278 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• Her father was William Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choral master in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother was Alma Sophia Kappelhoff.
• Has performed two songs in films that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: “Secret Love” from Calamity Jane (1953) and “Que Sera, Sera” from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Introduced four songs that were nominated: “It’s Magic” from Romance on the High Seas (1948), “It’s a Great Feeling” from It’s a Great Feeling (1949), “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” from Love Me or Leave Me (1955) and “Julie” from Julie (1956).
• Has a fear of flying that stemmed from tours with Bob Hope in the 1940s that resulted in some close calls in impenetrable winter weather. She almost turned down her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) because it was to be filmed in London and Marrakesh. Her husband and manager, Martin Melcher talked her into accepting it.
• Briefly dated Ronald Reagan shortly after his divorce from Jane Wyman when she and Reagan were contract players at Warner Brothers. Day told him that he was so good at talking that he should be touring the country making speeches. At the time, the future Republican President was a Democrat.
• She smoked two-and-a-half packs a day until about 1951.
• Vocal supporter and close friends with President Ronald Reagan.
• Childhood idol was Ginger Rogers, with whom she starred in Storm Warning (1951).
• Is referenced on every chorus of Ringo Starr’s last top 40 release in 1999, “La De Da”.
• Profiled in the book, “Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973”, by Thomas Lisanti and Louis Paul (McFarland, 2002).
• In Germany, Edith Schneider dubbed her voice in most of her films.
• In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani, Rina Morelli and once by Lidia Simoneschi in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
• After her Pillow Talk (1959) co-star Rock Hudson died of AIDS in 1985, Day told the press that she had never known he was a homosexual.
• Telephoned the White House to personally explain to President George W. Bush her reasons for not attending her award presentation in June 2004, and said she was praying hard that he would be elected to a second term of office in November.
• Is a staunch supporter of the Republican Party, and told the press she voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.
• She lived for years in the star-laden Crescent Drive at 713 Crescent. Her good friend Louis Jourdan lived just across the street at 714.
• Her only British appreciation club is called “Friends of Doris Day” and is based in Oxford, England.
• Gave birth to her only child at age 19, a son Terrence Jorden (aka Terry Melcher) on February 8, 1942. Child’s father was her first ex-husband, Al Jorden.
• Has a 1982 hit song, by the hugely popular Dutch ska-pop band Doe Maar, named after her.
• Also referenced in the song, “What do we do? We fly!” from the musical “Do I Hear a Waltz?” by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim.
• Is referenced in the 1994 song “Dirty Epic” by Underworld.
• Her great-niece Pia Douwes is also a critically acclaimed actress.
• Her mother named her after her favorite silent film star, Doris Kenyon. By coincidence, in the mid 1970s when Day wrote her autobiography, Kenyon was her neighbor on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.
• Has often cited Calamity Jane (1953) as her personal favorite of the 39 films she appeared in.
• Reportedly did not like profanity. As a recording artist, she would require anyone who swore to put a quarter in a “swear jar”. In addition, she does not allow her songs to be used in movies that contain swear words.
• Is referenced in the song “Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me” by Reunion, with lead singer Joey Levine.
• Premiere magazine ranked her as #24 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
• With the death of Annette Funicello on April 8, 2013, she is the last surviving person mentioned in the song “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee”, in Grease (1978).
• Her son Terry Melcher had rented the house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Bel Air, California, at which Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered by the Manson Family. On March 23, 1969, Charles Manson had visited the house looking for Melcher, a music producer and composer who had worked with The Beach Boys, Bobby Darin and The Byrds. The house was now sub-leased by Tate, and her photographer told Manson to leave by “the back alley”, possibly giving Manson a motive for the later attack. Melcher had auditioned Manson for a recording contract but rejected him, and there was a rumor after the murders that Manson had intended to send a message to Melcher, a theory that police later discounted.
• Was named the top box-office star of 1963 by the Motion Picture Herald, based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office, conducted by Quigley Publications.
• In order to make a political statement regarding the platform of the Canadian Alliance Party, in 2000 Canadian satirist Rick Mercer launched an attempt to hold a national referendum on the question of whether or not Stockwell Day should be forced to change his first name to “Doris”. Within days, he had the required number of signatures under the Alliance Parties current platform to launch a federal referendum. According to her publicist, Doris was amused by this.
• Is referenced in the 1985 song “Wrap Her Up” by Elton John.
• Is referenced in the 1970 song “Dig It” by The Beatles.
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush. She did not attend the White House award ceremony because of her intense fear of flying. [June 2004]
• Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 133-134. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
• Is also referenced in the 1989 song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel.
• It was during the location filming of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), when she saw how camels, goats and other “animal extras” in a marketplace scene were being treated, that Day began her lifelong commitment to preventing animal abuse.
• When her husband and manager of 17 years, Martin Melcher, died suddenly in April 1968, she professed not to have known that he had negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal with CBS to launch The Doris Day Show (1968) the following fall. After an abbreviated period of mourning, she went ahead with the series, which ran successfully for five seasons.
• Is referenced in the song “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by pop band Wham!, a single that hit Billboard’s #1 in 1984.
• She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), which went to Anne Bancroft.
• Rock Hudson called her “Eunice” because he said that whenever he thought of her as Eunice, it made him laugh.
• According to her autobiography, she got the nickname Clara Bixby when Billy De Wolfe told her, on the set of Tea for Two (1950), that she didn’t look like a “Doris Day”, but more like a “Clara Bixby”, To this day, that remains her nickname among a close circle of old friends, such as Van Johnson.
• She and her son Terry Melcher (along with a partner) co-own the Cypress Inn in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a small “Hotel California-esque” inn built in a beautiful Mediterranean motif.

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