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04-03-2018, 03:33 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/04/03/april-3-happy-birthday-doris-day-and-alec-baldwin/
Singer and actress Doris Day (born Doris Kappelhoff) celebrates her 96th birthday today. She was inspired to become a singer in her teens by listening to recordings made by Ella Fitzgerald, and after taking voice lessons, sang with a Cincinnati radio station, and then was recruited as a vocalist by bandleader Barney Rapp (who was the one who suggested her performing name). She later moved on to sing with Les Brown and his Band of Renown, with whom she had her first big hit, “Sentimental Journey,” in 1945. She had several more hits with Brown, and later with Buddy Clark, before she started making solo albums and singles in the late 1940s. She had a number of traditional pop hits through the late fifties. Several of them were songs she sang in her film roles, including one that won an Oscar for Best Original Song, and became Day’s signature tune in later years.
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Day made her film debut in 1948; naturally, it was in a musical, Romance on the High Seas. Almost all her film appearances for the next several years were in musicals—Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, and Young at Heart are representative titles. A few of them were more dramatic films, such as Love Me or Leave Me. In 1956 she starred in a pair of thrillers, the film noir Julie and Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much. A few years later, she began a run of successful romantic comedies when she starred with Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, which brought her her only Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. Her box office drawing power faded in the late 1960s, and she might have retired at that time, but when her third husband died in 1968, she discovered that he had saddled her with debts, and with a commitment to do a TV series, which became The Doris Day Show, airing from 1968-73.
Singer and actress Doris Day (born Doris Kappelhoff) celebrates her 96th birthday today. She was inspired to become a singer in her teens by listening to recordings made by Ella Fitzgerald, and after taking voice lessons, sang with a Cincinnati radio station, and then was recruited as a vocalist by bandleader Barney Rapp (who was the one who suggested her performing name). She later moved on to sing with Les Brown and his Band of Renown, with whom she had her first big hit, “Sentimental Journey,” in 1945. She had several more hits with Brown, and later with Buddy Clark, before she started making solo albums and singles in the late 1940s. She had a number of traditional pop hits through the late fifties. Several of them were songs she sang in her film roles, including one that won an Oscar for Best Original Song, and became Day’s signature tune in later years.
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Day made her film debut in 1948; naturally, it was in a musical, Romance on the High Seas. Almost all her film appearances for the next several years were in musicals—Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, and Young at Heart are representative titles. A few of them were more dramatic films, such as Love Me or Leave Me. In 1956 she starred in a pair of thrillers, the film noir Julie and Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much. A few years later, she began a run of successful romantic comedies when she starred with Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, which brought her her only Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. Her box office drawing power faded in the late 1960s, and she might have retired at that time, but when her third husband died in 1968, she discovered that he had saddled her with debts, and with a commitment to do a TV series, which became The Doris Day Show, airing from 1968-73.