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DORIS DAY

Facts

‐ Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff ‐ Born on April 3, 1922 ‐ Died on May 13, 2019 ‐ Was an American Actress, singer, and animal welfare activist

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Music Career

‐ Big band singer in 1939 ‐ Achieving commercial success in 1945 with “sentimental Journey“ and “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time” with Les Brown and His Band of Renown ‐ Created 10” LP and 12’ LP albums ‐ Most albums were from movies she starred in

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MUSIC

You’re My Thrill ‐ Released on August 1949 ‐ https://youtu.be/l1Q1cX1K-Fk Young Man with a Horn

• Released on 1950
• “Too Marvelous for Words”
• https://youtu.be/zYTymnSQ40w

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MUSIC

Tea for Two ‐ Released on September 4, 1950 ‐ https://youtu.be/vjGwxPNKMtg Lullaby on Broadway

• Released on March 5, 1951
• https://youtu.be/Fo0JKOiVv10

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On Moonlight Bay ‐ Released on July 2, 1951 ‐ https://youtu.be/Ud7ZTU4FS3U I’ll See You In My Dreams

• Released on December 14, 1951
• https://youtu.be/vylxH7Kd4WM

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MUSIC

By the Light of Silvery Moon ‐ Released on March 13, 1953 ‐ https://youtu.be/td7lCCO9aaQ Calamity Jane

• Released on November 9,1953
• “Secret Love”
• https://youtu.be/H8P_p7dB2dw

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MUSIC

Love Me or Leave Me ‐ Released on May 12, 1955 ‐ https://youtu.be/eBtvCHKn_oU Day Dreams

• Released on June 13, 1955
• “Imagination“
• https://youtu.be/WHCjQPtE-IY

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Film Career

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• Began her film career with Romance on

the High Seas, 1948

• This lead to a 20- year career as a

motion picture actress

• She starred in films of many genres:

musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers.

Other Well Known Movies

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

• Released 1956
• Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• co starred with James Stewart
• Film won an Academy Award for Best

Original Song “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”

• The movie is about a family figuring out a

way to get their child back with no help from the police

• https://youtu.be/_91hU6LDjoA

Other Well Known Movies

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Pillow Talk

• Released 1959
• Directed by Michael Gordon
• Movie nominated her for the Academy

Award for Best Actress

• The movie is about a man and a woman

who share a party line cannot stand each

• ther, but he has fun romancing her with

his voice disguised.

• https://youtu.be/F2umX5T2Zs0

Other Well Known Movies

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Lover Come Back

• Released in 1961
• Directed by Delbert Mann
• Co starred with Rock Hudson
• Earned an Academy Award nomination for

Best Original Screenplay

• The movie is about a series of

misunderstanding leaves on an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor

• https://youtu.be/XVLqG0P_NWo

Other Well Known Movies

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Move Over, Darling

• Released on 1963
• Co starred James Garner and Polly

Bergen

• Nominated for Best Actress in

Comedy/Musical at the 21st Golden Globes

• This movie is about a husband‘s missing

wife thought long dead after being lost at sea for several years returns just after he remarried

• https://youtu.be/Jj4IUhrgM7Y

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Citations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day https://www.biography.com/actor/doris-day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day_discography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day_filmography