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Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Doris Day, screen and recording legend, has died at Day was the ultimate paradox of the early s: the sexual virgin Born in Cincinnati in as Doris Kappelhoff, Day trained as a dancer as a child but got her start as a recording artist, singing first in local nightclubs and on radio before working with swing orchestras in her mids. Next Up In Culture. Delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up!
Yet her name may require Googling for some millennials, as Day made her last film, the family comedy "With Six You Get Eggroll," when she was a mere something. And, with a near Garbo-esque desire for privacy, she halted her acting career in after her popular TV series, "The Doris Day Show," completed a five-season run.
At her best playing ambitious career gals in perfectly accessorized designer suits, the perpetually pert actress came to epitomize pre-liberated womanhood, never a prude but not quite ready to toss out her girdle either.
The settings changed, but rarely the basic situation: He wanted to bed, she wanted to wed and the audiences were duly seduced as Day and her leading man batted double entendres back and forth like a badminton birdie. There was more to Day than displayed in her no-sex sex comedies, however. Her carefree demeanor and vibrant personality — which shone even in second-tier Warner Bros.
That included her father, who left her mother when she was A teenage Day first wed in , to trombone player Al Jorden, whom she alleged abused her; Jorden fathered her son and only child, music producer Terry Melcher, who died in from cancer. In , she married a saxophonist, George Weidler, who resented her growing fame as a singer.
Marty Melcher, who adopted Terry, became her third husband and manager in She worked her way out of debt and later sued a financial adviser to get the cash back. Her last marriage was a brief one to restaurateur Barry Comden that ended in No wonder she told biographer A. Soon after they got together, Comden came up with the idea for a line of pet food that would feature her name. Day embraced the concept because she thought that the profits would help establish her nonprofit animal foundation.
April 3 is practically a holy day for folks in this Central Coast playground. Her breath control, her diction, her dynamic control are all flawless. She had a masterful command of the different colors in her voice. She could sing light or strong in any part of her range.
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