Doris Day: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|American actress and singer (1922–2019)}}

{{about|the American actress and singer|other uses|Doris Day (disambiguation)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Doris Day - 1957.JPG

| caption = Day in 1957

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|4|3}}

| birth_place = [[Cincinnati]], Ohio, U.S.

| death_place = [[Carmel Valley, California]], U.S.

| known_for =

| years_active = 1939–2012

| spouse = {{plainlist|

}}

 

 

Day was one of the leading [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] film stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Her film career began with ''[[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 (film)|Calamity Jane]]'' (1953) and starred in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' (1956) with [[James Stewart]]. She costarred with [[Rock Hudson]] in three successful comedies including ''[[Pillow Talk (film)|Pillow Talk]]'' (1959), 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 (film)|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 films. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own television sitcom ''[[The Doris Day Show]]'' (1968–1973).

In the U.S., the album reached No. 12 on [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]'s bestseller list and helped raise funds for the [[Doris Day Animal League]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/464665/weekly-chart-notes-doris-day-gloria-estefan-selena-gomez|title=Weekly Chart Notes: Doris Day, Gloria Estefan, Selena Gomez&nbsp;– Chart Beat|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 4, 2012}}</ref> Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14870590|work=BBC News|title=Doris Day makes UK chart history|date=September 11, 2011|access-date=April 4, 2012}}</ref>

 

 

In April 2014, Day made an unexpected public appearance to attend the annual Doris Day Animal Foundation benefit.<ref>{{cite news|last1=McNeil|first1=Liz|title=Doris Day Makes Her First Public Appearance in More Than 2 Decades|url=https://people.com/celebrity/doris-day-makes-her-first-public-appearance-in-more-than-2-decades/|access-date=June 26, 2018|work=People|date=April 9, 2014}}</ref>

In 1971, she cofounded Actors and Others for Animals and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur along with [[Mary Tyler Moore]], [[Angie Dickinson]] and [[Jayne Meadows]].{{Sfn|Patrick|McGee|2006|p=132|ps=, photograph of ad.}}

 

 

To complement the Doris Day Animal Foundation, Day formed the [[Doris Day Animal League]] (DDAL) in 1987, a national nonprofit citizens' lobbying organization on behalf of animals.<ref>{{cite book|title=Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul: Stories about Pets as Teachers, Healers, Heroes, and Friends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIPdhSiMN48C&pg=PA385|access-date=August 8, 2013|year=1998|publisher=HCI Books|isbn=978-1-55874-571-1|page=385|archive-date=February 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201175143/http://books.google.com/books?id=QIPdhSiMN48C&pg=PA385|url-status=dead}}</ref> Day actively lobbied the [[United States Congress]] in support of legislation designed to safeguard [[animal welfare]] on a number of occasions, and in 1995 she originated the annual [[World Spay Day]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Join 'Spay Day USA' campaign|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19950131&id=EUNWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3068,7529821|access-date=January 15, 2016|work=[[Gainesville Sun]]|date=January 31, 1995}}</ref> The DDAL merged into the [[Humane Society of the United States]] (HSUS) in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601770.html|title=Merger Adds to Humane Society's Bite|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=June 5, 2007|first=Judy|last=Sarasohn|date=September 7, 2006}}</ref>

* [https://www.dorisdayanimalfoundation.org/ Doris Day Animal Foundation]

* {{IMDb name|13}}

* {{AllMovie name|17533}}

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* {{discogs artist|Doris Day}}