Doris Day is one of the most well- known and beloved American singers and actresses! She recently passed away!
So let’s find out some trivia about her life and career!
- Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist
- She was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff
- She was born on April 3, 1922
- She died on May 13, 2019
- After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
- Leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career
- She recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967
- Which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century
- Day’s film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era
- With the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas
- And its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress
- She starred in a series of successful films
- Including musicals, comedies, and dramas
- 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 most successful films were the ones she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner
- Such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963)
- She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor
- After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973)
- Day was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966
- As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s
- And ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012
- In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart
- Which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material
- Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- And a Legend Award from the Society of Singers
- In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
- And in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures
- In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush
- Followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award
- She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood
- Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio
- She was the daughter of Alma Sophia, a housewife
- And William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master
- All of her grandparents were German immigrants
- For most of her life, Day reportedly believed she had been born in 1924
- And reported her age accordingly
- It was not until her 95th birthday when the Associated Press found her birth certificate
- Showing a 1922 date of birth
- She is the youngest of three siblings
- She had two older brothers
- Richard, who died before her birth
- And Paul, two to three years older
- Due to her father’s alleged infidelity, her parents separated
- She developed an early interest in dance
- And in the mid-1930s formed a dance duo with Jerry Doherty
- That performed locally in Cincinnati
- A car accident on October 13, 1937, injured her right leg
- And curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer
- Day died on May 13, 2019, after contracting pneumonia. Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation
