Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 â€" May 13,
2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.
She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving
commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental
Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les
Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career
and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.Day was one of the
biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. Day's film career began
during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High
Seas (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals,
comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity
Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too
Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in
which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow
Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling
(1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark
Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack
Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in
various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly
removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own
sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968â€"1973).In 1989, she was awarded the
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion
pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as
a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011 she was awarded
the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.
Also in 2011, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which
contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she
was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office
earner in the United States four times.
2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.
She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving
commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental
Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les
Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career
and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.Day was one of the
biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. Day's film career began
during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High
Seas (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals,
comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity
Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too
Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in
which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow
Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling
(1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark
Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack
Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in
various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly
removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own
sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968â€"1973).In 1989, she was awarded the
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion
pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as
a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011 she was awarded
the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.
Also in 2011, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which
contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she
was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office
earner in the United States four times.
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