Posted on 05/13/2023 12:49:13 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Doris Day was an incredibly popular and Republican singer and film star, who used her fame to establish the Doris Day Animal Foundation.
She said: "I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy."
In the movie “Love Me Or Leave Me” which was nominated for 6 academy awards (winning Best Story for Daniel Fuchs), Day was a dime a dance nightclub singer who had two love interests in a smalltime gangster played by Jimmy Cagney (nominated for Best Actor) and her singing coach played by Cameron Mitchell. She marries and divorces the Cagney character because of his jealous violent rage, but the singing coach becomes her second husband later. By the end of the movie the gangster accepts that reality.
Fellow actress of the time, Elaine Stritch, said of Day’s performance “She was up, she was honest, she was forthright — I could tell she was scared, but she got over it. She was brilliant in the movie she did with James Cagney ………”
God Bless American Freedom which enabled Doris Day to rise from normal middle class beginnings in Cincinnati, Ohio to have a great Hollywood and television career, and then help and be loyal to those she loved.
The film was based on the life of Ruth Etting (1896-1978), one of the most popular singers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Thanks for reminding us of this film.
I'd love to hear someone answer like that in a house committee hearing.... of course they would have to pause the meeting to
clean the liberal head pop off the walls.
- Oscar Levant
When she had the radio show with Bob Hope, they really skirted right up to the edges of what was considered decent in those days. So much sexual innuendo you could cut it with a knife.
Hope giving the side-eye. Very funny.
Had a series of bad marriages. That’s why later in life she preferred the company of dogs lol.
Something tells me she should have continued with the bad marriages. Might get it right once. Either that or she could go down to her grave fighting.
Some women have no intention of getting it right. Victimhood is comfortable. She supposedly dad an affair with Elgin Baylor, basketball player at a time it’s best to keep a secret.
My mother, growing up in Cincinnati, used to hve a dance lesson right after the young Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff (Doris Day.) They didn’t really know each other, but would cross paths on the way to and from the lesson occasionally and exchange pleasantries.
Reportedly Hope called her “Jut-Butt”…..
Indeed as many have
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-before-she-was-a-virgin-1304244.html
… By the time of her movie debut in Romance on the High Seas (1948), she had not only married and divorced the trombonist Al Jorden, who used to beat her up, but had a hugely successful career fronting Les Brown and his band, including her first million-seller, “Sentimental Journey”...
I’m not that far from Cincy. Went to UC. That’s also Vivek Ramaswamy’s home town.
My cousin was an English prof at UC, then moved to New Orleans.
Many guys ‘knew’ Doris Day before she was a virgin (old joke).
https://www.whosdatedwho.com/dating/doris-day
Looking at the photos on the right side of the website above plus Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Dinah Shore, the number of guys/women they fooled around with was 179...
Divide by 6 gals and you get an average of about 30 guys and gals they had their way with. Just 6 women of hollywood!
You can see her on The Tonight Show displaying her headlights...
Johnny is doing his best trying not to look : )
Doris Day TONIGHT SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG2vTXffu7A
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