Together: Housekeeper Sydney Wood, right, poses with Doris Day, left
Reclusive: This picture of Doris Day, taken in July 2008, is the last time she was photographed in public
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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Full title: Terrible twilight of Doris Day: Concerns raised over the beauty who has hidden from the world for 45 years
“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin” — Oscar Levant.
Bet he’s got nothin’ on Laz.
Together: Housekeeper Sydney Wood, right, poses with Doris Day, left
Reclusive: This picture of Doris Day, taken in July 2008, is the last time she was photographed in public
For real? I did not know she was still alive, she did not age well. (at least not like Sophia Loren) Good of her to save the creatures and reclusive is her own business.
IIRC she was a close friend to Rush’s mother
I remember her afternoon variety show, back when she and Burt Reynolds were an item.
IIRC, after her third husband (and manager) died, she asked his son, who was a major record executive to help her with her finances. The son quickly discovered his dad had stolen and gambled away just about everything she had.
He’d also signed her to a do a TV show she didn’t want to do but because she had a contract and needed the money, she was forced to do it.
You might be thinking of Dinah Shore.
She looks pretty darn good in that 2008 photo for an 86 year old.
Not “I’d hit it” good, but upright, fit, and healthy.
You know, she might be a zombie.
I'm just throwing that out there.
Doris Day type chicks are appealing as all hell.
That's because she's probably never had face lifts. I like Sophia Loren, but he's had work done on herself over the years.
If this was anyone but a “celeb,” she’d be considered a wackadoo “cat lady,” and the county health department would raid her house, find it knee-deep in feces and felines, and ship her off to a laughing academy.
Haha. Mid ‘70’s-early ‘80 ? watched every afternoon at the grandparents house. I was on the same track. :). She has only got 10 or so pets now, though, so hopefully all is under control.
Not that hell is all that appealing mind you.
It’s a colloquialism.
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