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Doris Day Biography

original name Doris Von Kappelhoff

(1924–)

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Films
1948 Romance on the High Seas
1949 My Dream is Yours

1949 It's a Great Feeling
1950 Young Man with a Horn
1950 Tea for Two
1950 The West Point Story
1951 Storm Warning
1951 Lullaby of Broadway
1951 On Moonlight Bay
1951 I'll See You in My Dreams
1951 Starlift
1952 The Winning Team
1952 April in Paris
1953 By The Light of the Silvery Moon
1953 Calamity Jane
1954 Lucky Me
1954 Young at Heart
1955 Love Me or Leave Me
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 Julie
1957 The Pajama Game
1958 Teacher's Pet
1958 The Tunnel of Love
1959 It Happened to Jane
1959 Pillow Talk
1960 Please Don't Eat the daisies
1960 Midnight Lace
1961 Lover Come Back
1962 That Touch of Mink
1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo
1963 The Thrill of it All
1963 Move Over Darling
1964 Send Me No Flowers
1965 Do Not Disturb
1966 The Glass Bottom Boat
1967 The Ballad of Josie
1967 Caprice
1968 Where Were You When the Light's went Out?
1968 With Six You Get Egg Roll

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(born April 3, 1924, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) American singer and motion-picture actress whose performances in movie musicals of the 1950s and sex comedies of the early '60s made her a leading Hollywood star.

While still a teenager, she changed her last name to Day when she began singing on radio. She worked as a vocalist in the bands of Barney Rapp and Bob Crosby before joining Les Brown's band in 1940 and making several popular recordings, among them “Sentimental Journey.” Day went solo in 1947 and achieved great success as a recording artist. Her singing was distinguished by crystal-clear tone and the ability to convey great emotion without histrionics.Day's first major film role was in Romance on the High Seas (1948). From there she made a long series of musicals, including Calamity Jane (1953), Young at Heart (1955), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and The Pajama Game (1957). Her screen persona, that of an intelligent, wholesome woman of unfailing optimism and understated strength of character, came to epitomize the ideal American woman of the 1950s. Day went on to star in a string of sophisticated sex comedies, notably Teacher's Pet (1958), Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1962), That Touch of Mink (1962), The Thrill of It All (1963), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). These comedies made her Hollywood's leading box-office attraction. From 1968 to 1973 she starred in The Doris Day Show, a weekly television series.As her acting career neared its end, Day focused her attention on animals, cofounding Actors and Others for Animals. In 1977 she founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, and ten years later she became a founding member and president of the Doris Day Animal League, a lobbying organization for laws regulating the treatment of animals.