15 Great Oscar-Winning Songs!: “Secret Love”

[TMC]

https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/02/18/...s-secret-love/

Gee whiz that’s a great melody. And I guess it should be since it was kind of lifted from a piano sonata by Schubert. There are other versions I like better, but we’ll get to at least one of those below. Yes, Doris Day is undeniably square by today’s standards, but she also had one of the clearest, cleanest singing voices you’ll ever hear in the style. That probably contributed to her squeaky clean image which fell out of fashion in the late 1960s. The reputation is not entirely undeserved, as the tone of her films failed to change with the times and she refused the role of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, saying in her memoirs that she had done so on moral grounds. People began calling Day “the world’s oldest virgin” and her once boffo film career cooled relatively quickly. It has been generally forgotten what a big star she actually was.

[Coffeecup]

I read a story somewhere that the song Secret Love was nominated for Academy Award and in the early years the singer who sang the song couldn't sing on stage. I think they can now. So they had another actress sing the song . The producer or some high up fellow found out the actress was expecting baby. Maybe the gal told them. Any way they thought the scene looked a little scandalous thinking the woman could be pregnant with her secret love . So another non expectant woman took over and sang the song. Don't know much else or who indeed did sing the song at the awards .