Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922-2019) · United States · Actors · Died at 97
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Something wrong?She made wholesomeness box office gold - the girl-next-door who became the top-earning star in America four separate times, singing "Que Sera, Sera" while anchoring a string of bedroom comedies that never quite went to bed.
A life in dates
Waking Sleeping BeautyFilm2008Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward2007Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward2006“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?”In their wordsFebruary 2006"People Who Matter: An Interview with Doris Day" by Cameron Woo and Nellie McKay in The Bark, Issue 34, (January - February 2006)
LegendsSeries, 2006Various Roles (archive footage)2004Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1998Grammy Hall of FameAward1996
E! True Hollywood StorySeries1988Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille AwardAward1981Ohio Women's Hall of FameAward1976
That's Entertainment, Part IIFilm, (archive footage)1975“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”In their wordsAs quoted in Doris Day : Her Own Story (1975) as told to A. E. Hotchner1971
The Pet SetSeries1968
The Doris Day ShowSeries, Doris Martin1967
CapriceFilm, Patricia Foster1965
Do Not DisturbFilm, Janet Harper1963
Move Over, DarlingFilm, Ellen Wagstaff Arden1962Henrietta AwardAward
The Beverly HillbilliesSeries, 19621961
Lover Come BackFilm, Carol Templeton1960
Midnight LaceFilm, Kit Preston1959Henrietta AwardAward1958
Teacher's PetFilm, Erica Stone1957Henrietta AwardAward1956
JulieFilm, Julie Benton1954
Young at HeartFilm, Laurie Tuttle1953
The OscarsSeries1952
April in ParisFilm, Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson1950
What's My Line?Series
Tea for TwoFilm, 1950Nanette Carter1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries
Romance on the High SeasFilm, 1948Miss Georgia Garrett1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1922Born3 April 1922Also in Deutsch
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(Portrait of Doris Day and Kitty Kallen, Central Park, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947) (LOC) (5269518510)In their own words 2
, 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?
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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SpotifyFilmography 40
CMChaos: The Manson Murders
RARock Hudson: All That Heaven AllowedWBWaking Sleeping Beauty
TIThat's Entertainment! IIITIThat's Entertainment, Part II
WEWith Six You Get Eggroll
WOWhere Were You When the Lights Went Out?CACaprice
TJThe Ballad of Josie
TBThe Glass Bottom BoatDDDo Not Disturb
SFSend Me No FlowersMDMove Over, Darling
TAThe Thrill of It All
TMThat Touch of Mink
BJBilly Rose's JumboLBLover Come BackMLMidnight Lace
PDPlease Don't Eat the Daisies
PTPillow Talk
IJIt Happened to JaneTPTeacher's Pet
TLThe Tunnel of Love
TGThe Pajama Game
TMThe Man Who Knew Too MuchJUJulie
LMLove Me or Leave MeYHYoung at Heart
CJCalamity Jane
BMBy the Light of the Silvery MoonAPApril in Paris
SWStorm Warning
OBOn Moonlight Bay
LBLullaby of Broadway
IDI'll See You in My Dreams
YHYoung Man with a HornTTTea for Two
IFIt's a Great Feeling
MYMy Dream Is YoursRSRomance on the High Seas85 credits on file
Television 11
CTConversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson TapesLELegendsESE! True Hollywood StoryTSThe Pet SetTSThe Doris Day Show
TSThe Merv Griffin ShowTHThe Beverly HillbilliesTOThe OscarsWLWhat's My Line?TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff in 1922, she started as a big band singer in 1937 and broke through in 1945 with two No. 1 hits, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time," singing with Les Brown. She went solo and recorded more than 650 songs over two decades, her voice bright and unmistakable. Her film debut came in 1948 with Romance on the High Seas, and by the late 1950s she'd become a box-office anchor - the title role in Calamity Jane, a Hitchcock thriller, then three comedies opposite Rock Hudson that made her a household fixture, including Pillow Talk, which earned her an Oscar nomination. After her last film in 1968 she ran a sitcom for five years, then stepped away from Hollywood entirely. She spent her later decades advocating for animals, founding organizations that carried her name and her single-minded focus on their welfare until her death in 2019.
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