her then-husband wanted her to abort---but she refused.
Cypress Inn, Carmel, Cal--once owned by Doris and her son Terry (now deceased).
Posted on 10/26/2013 12:29:49 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Stand outside the huge gates to Doris Day’s fortress-like home in California’s beautiful Carmel Valley and you can sometimes hear the sound of the canine companions who share the Hollywood star’s life.
It’s been some years since Day, now 91 and so reclusive many may be surprised to learn she is still alive, used to steal through the streets of the nearby town of Carmel in the middle of the night on a regular basis.
Locals would watch in surprise as she rounded up stray dogs and emaciated cats, bundling them in her car to take home and look after them.
At one time she had close on 50 dogs rampaging through her house, some of them piling on to her kingsize bed to sleep at night. People would leave abandoned pets at the gates and Doris, one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history, never turned them away.
She once refused to tell a interviewer exactly how many animals lived with her — people would think her ‘wacko’, she said.
The pert, fresh-faced and fun-loving blonde won Oscars romancing Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk and for her belting rendition of the song Que Sera Sera alongside James Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
But after four tumultuous and — in some cases, violent — marriages, she long ago gave up the company of men.
She much prefers her beloved dogs, though friends say she has always lived in fear that one of them might inadvertently knock her over or even bite her, causing serious injury.
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Yeah, that was a funny scene.
The blonde who did the original number also played the nurse in the wonderful Stanwyck film, “Christmas in Connecticut.”
The nurse was supposed to be engaged to Dennis Morgan-—but came by to tell him it was off-—leaving the door open for love-struck Barbara.
The CinC cast was extraordinary-—all great, great actors.
Gotta update myself on CinC! That blonde made me crazy with laughter! But no one was as funny as Irene Dunne. I’ll never forget her shuffling scene in “Show Boat.” Paul Robson is amazed at her performance! (”Can that gal shuffle!”) Today, sadly, that would be raaaaaaaaaacist.
Dunne could do it all.
WIKI reports she attended the Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills, and was good friends with actress Loretta Young.
There’s a bust in her honor at St. John’s Roman Catholic Hospital in Santa Monica.....for which her foundation, The Irene Dunne Guild, had raised more than $20 million.
“Of course you won’t see her picketing at abortion mills in order to save completely innocent *humans* because then she wouldn’t be invited to any of the Malibu cocktail parties.”
She’s a recluse and has been for years, for heaven’s sake. The last thing she was concerned about was being invited to Malibu cocktail parties. And you have no idea how she feels about abortion. You make things up out of whole cloth.
Why the past tense? All that still goes, far as I know. We have stayed there with a few different dogs at different times. I had forgotten about the sherry but you're right, and Mrs. Homer was quite impressed. Our German Shepherd once quelled some trouble in the lounge. An unleashed springer spaniel came charging down the stairs looking for trouble and Conrad jumped up and told him to calm down and be good. Okay, he knocked over our table when he jumped up but that was an accident. We haven't stayed overnight for a few years but we still stop in for a drink once in a while. Carmel is perhaps the most dog-friendly town in the U.S.A.
Well given the fact that Dinah has cashed her chips in and Doris is still alive I would say that is a pretty significant difference.
It must have been the BHs church - we often went to Santa Monica but not to church. According to my grandmother - 1900 - 1992 - Irene sang for a friend of hers at a wedding ceremony at Mary, Queen of Perpetual Help in Richmond Hill, NY - probably in the 1930s. Why can’t we have religious actors today?
It’s so true that Day has been a recluse for many, many years. That is her right. And I doubt very much she is going to cocktail parties! Again, I flay alive my fellow freepers for having no sense of culture/arts/older and newer pop art which keeps the left-wing going on speed. If we don’t educate ourselves in art, we are lost forever.
spare us
HOWEVER, you are NOT allowed to have your pets in the room WITHOUT you in it.....if you go out to dinner they have to be in the car or a dog sitter!!! There was NO GRASS ANYWHERE in Carmel for our Little Lhaso Apso to go to the bathroom but there was a LOT of FOXTAIL weed that PIERCED our little dog’s eardrum and we had to have Emergency Surgery and she was never able to FLY again!!! BUT we still love Carmel and Doris Day and the Cypress Inn!!
Cypress Inn, Carmel, Cal--once owned by Doris and her son Terry (now deceased).
Spare us, what? Our abandonment of the arts to the Left?
I guess it means on what you mean by “art”.
What the left considers “art” is not art by standards.
Writing posts on FR can be an art.
The left has been trying to redefine art by its “standards”, or rather lack of them. Allowing the left to define things is the problem, and its far from just art.
They are using the schools and media and pop-culture to redefine everything. We don’t need to “abandon” anything for it to disappear.
The whole country has abandoned “the arts”. I bet most people under 18 have never tried to listen to classical music, for instance.
and Hollyweird is not art. It hasn’t been for at least 50 years.
We are never going to “take back” Hollywood, to get into that business you have to accept their perversions as normal and once you do that you are morally dead. The same with the news media, they won’t hire anyone who does not share their “values”.
Terry is DEAD???
Since I teach acting to young opera students, I can tell you that young people certainly have not abandoned the arts. These kids are desperate for a theatre career and if you walk along B’way around Lincoln Center, you’ll see a parade of beautiful young girls - walking like ducks, their hair tied in neat little buns - and you know they are ballet dancers training for ABT and what’s left of City ballet. David Koch owns what used to be called the State Theatre - at least he refuses to abandon the arts to the left.
Bless her heart
An affinity for camel as well I see
Nice thighs
Yes——died several years ago—left a wife and two (I think) children.
Musta been hard for Doris-—her only child-—she depended on him for so much.
Terry Melcher circa 1974.
Terrence P. "Terry" Melcher (February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer, who was instrumental in shaping the sound of American West Coast rock music. His greatest contribution to the culture of the time was producing The Byrds' innovative cover hits "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!", and his work with The Beach Boys.
He was the only child of actress/singer Doris Day.
Melcher was born Terrence P. Jorden in New York City to trombonist Al Jorden and his wife, singer-actress Doris Day. Known as "Terry",[1] the boy was named by his mother after the hero of her favorite childhood comic strip, Terry and the Pirates.[2]
Before the birth, Day was planning to leave the abusive, violent Jorden. Outraged when he found out about her pregnancy, Jorden had demanded that Day get an abortion. Shortly after giving birth, Day filed for divorce, left the boy with her mother in Ohio, and went back to touring with big band leader Les Brown. After the divorce, Jorden visited his son infrequently and had little presence in his life.
After divorcing her second husband, saxophonist George Weidler, Day married Martin Melcher, who would become her manager and produce many of her films.
Melcher adopted Terry, giving the child his surname. (NOTE: while showing concern for Terry in front of Doris---Terry later said Melcher abused him when Doris was not around.)
After Martin Melcher's death in 1968, Day discovered that he had mismanaged or embezzled $20 million of her money.
On November 19, 2004, Terry Melcher died at his home of melanoma, after a long illness. He was 62 and was survived by his wife, Terese, his son, Ryan Melcher, and his mother, Doris Day.[11]
People today think the “arts” is anything pornographic
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