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Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in Evanston, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati). The name Doris was chosen in honor of a silent movie actress, Doris Kenyon , whom her mother liked. Her family was Catholic, despite her parents' divorce, but she later embraced Christian Science.
Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract that enabled her to travel to Hollywood with her partner, Jerry Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She was a singer with the big bands of Barney Rapp , Bob Crosby, and Les BrownLes Brown ( March 14, 1912 January 24, 2001) and his Band of Renown were a big band from the 1940s which continued from the big band era into the 1950s. One of the major distinctions of the Brown band was that it brought Doris Day into prominence with her before setting out on her own as a singer in the late 1940sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the. It was Barney Rapp who convinced her that Kappelhoff was too awkward a name and suggested Day after a song named "Day after Day" that was part of her repertoire. She never really liked the name Doris Day, thinking it sounded too much like a stripper; this was ironic, since she eventually became associated with a nearly opposite image of wholesomeness and innocence.
With Brown, she charted 12 popular musicPopular music sometimes abbreviated the genre pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are (at least in their heyday) broadly popular. Broadly, any music that is a part of popular culture, including classical, folk, or other hits, among them, her first two #1 hits, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time". "Sentimental Journey" earned her a flood of letters from World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough GIAlternate uses: GI (disambiguation In common American usage, GI is either an adjective used to describe government-issued products such as those used by the armed forces, or as a noun referring to American soldiers, especially US Army enlisted personnel .s. She admitted coming to hate singing "Sentimental Journey", but never tired of reading the letters. On her own, she had more #1 hits, including "Secret Love".
Day also acted in many films, in most of which she sang. In the Alfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE ( 13 August 1899 29 April, 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre. Influenced by expressionism in Germany, he began directing in England, and worked in the United States from 1939. film The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Knew Too Much is the name of two suspense films, one released in 1934 and the other in 1956, and both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Both films feature a family of tourists who become involved in an international plot. In the 1934 film, the mai, she sang "Que Sera Sera", which won an OscarBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p; it became her signature song. Day began her film career in 1948; a peppy, Betty Huttonesque persona dominated her early work. She continued to make saccharine and somewhat low-level musical comedies such as Starlift, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea for Two for Warner Brothers until the cycle seemed to exhaust itself. In 1955 she received some of the best notices of her career for her dramatic portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me. Day appeared in the film with James Cagney, and continued to match up with some of Hollywood's greatest male stars such as James Stewart (The Man Who Knew Too Much) and Clark Gable (Teachers Pet). In 1959 Day began her period of strongest box-office success with the hugely popular comedy Pillow Talk co-starring Rock Hudson, who would become a lifelong friend. Other successes included 2 more matchups with Hudson, as well as That Touch of Mink with Cary Grant and Please Don't Eat the Daisies with David Niven. Many of her 60's films ignored her singing abilities and painted her as a good-hearted woman with a strong will, a hint of naivete, and the purest virtue this side of a nun. Unfortunately, times as well as attitudes had changed, but Day's films had not. Critics, comics and pundits harshly attacked Day as "the world's oldest virgin" and audiences began to shy away from the repetitive, gimmicky roles being played by an actress who was becoming a bit long in the tooth for such material. Day herself found many of her mid-late 60's films to be of very poor quality and did them only at the insistence of her third husband, Marty Melcher.
Upon Melcher's death she learned that he had committed her to a TV series. From 1968 to 1973, she made the transition to television, starring in her own sitcom, The Doris Day Show. The theme song for the show was "Que Sera Sera". Day continued with the show only as long as she needed the work to help pay down her debts.
Though generally presenting a happy, carefree image to the public, she had four difficult marriages:
In 1985 Day hosted her own talk show, Doris Day's Best Friends. The show generated unexpected press when her old friend Rock Hudson appeared in the first episode. Day was taken aback by the emaciated and wizened frame of Hudson, who had always been in the best physical condition. Soon after she and the rest of the world learned that he was dying of AIDS. Day stood by his side.
In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League, and she currently devotes much of her time towards the cause of helping animals.
She wrote a best-selling autobiography.
In 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom but refused to attend the ceremony because of a fear of flying. In November 2004 her son Terry passed away from complications of melanoma.
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