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May 13, 2019 · Doris Day, the freckle-faced movie actress whose irrepressible personality and golden voice made her America’s top box-office star in the early 1960s, died on Monday at her home in Carmel...
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May 13, 2019 · Doris Day, Hollywood legend and the only woman to hit No. 1 at the box office and No. 1 on the music charts simultaneously, died May 13, 2019, at her Carmel Valley, Calif., home. She was 97. She was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff, April 3, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 13, 2019 · Doris Day, a leading box-office star of the mid-20th century who achieved indelible fame in big-screen bedroom farces, dies at 97.
- 'Miss Goody Two-Shoes' Image
- Started as A Singer
- Financial Troubles
In Pillow Talk, released in 1959 and her first of three films with Rock Hudson, she proudly caught up with what she called "the contemporary in me." Her 1976 tell-all book, Doris Day: Her Own Story, chronicled her money troubles and three failed marriages, contrasting with the happy publicity of her Hollywood career. "I have the unfortunate reputat...
Born to a music teacher and a housewife in Cincinnati, she had dreamed of a dance career, but at age 12, she suffered a crippling accident: a car she was in was hit by a train and her leg was badly broken. Listening to the radio while recuperating, she began singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, "trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, ...
With movies trending for more explicit sex, she turned to television to recoup her finances. The Doris Day Showwas a moderate success in its 1968-1973 run on CBS. Disillusionment grew in the 1960s when she discovered that failed investments by her third husband, Martin Melcher, left her deeply in debt. She eventually won a multimillion-dollar judgm...
May 13, 2019 · Died: May 13, 2019 ( Who else died on May 13?) Details of death: Died at home in Carmel Valley, California of pneumonia at the age of 97. Is there someone you miss whose memory should be honored?...
May 13, 2019 · Doris Day, the honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the 1950s and ’60s and among the most popular screen actresses in...
May 13, 2019 · May 13, 2019, 6:33 AM PDT. By Associated Press. LOS ANGELES — Doris Day, the honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the...
