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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You’re weird. No meeowing here, I’ve always liked Doris Day.
Yes and many of the greats attribute his influence
Really? Sounds like you're still wondering.....
I guess I must have been really 4th class
God bless those folks— they’re going to need hazmat suits!
Oh, Bob Crosby’s band was one of the best (in terms of its quality) of its era, with its heyday around 1936-42. Had its own unique style (Dixieland-ish), with some truly top-notch jazz soloists. I think the group basically disbanded not long after WW2 started, but Bob Crosby continued being something of a third-tier celeb, and eventually had a daytime tv-show in the early days of television, which was apparently popular for a while.
One more reason to love Doris Day. I sure don’t blame her for withdrawing from this cesspool of a world to the company of animals. What “terrible twilight”?
When we watch a movie, That Touch of Mink is nearly always in the top five.
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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.
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Sophia Loren is a lovely and well preserved woman. She works at it six or more hours a day. The rest of us choose to do other things with our lives.
HT: Really? Sounds like you're still wondering.....
imardmd1: I guess I must have been really 4th class
Past tense. I was. Long, long ago. Many changes since. I got the best of the deal, actually--custody of the kids and a great career.
Liked Mary, too. Really liked their music. I was about 14. She divorced Les. Funny that such pleasnt entertainers wind up hating each other. Poor woman died of diabetes complications --
we lived in Logan WV until 59. When I was there there were two radio stations, both country. No western, just country. I enjoyed the music. My mom always brought music into the house. That’s how we came to hear LP and MF, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, Liberace and others. She was a member of the RCA Victor Club and bought the monthly selections.
Hardly anything I didn’t like. I remember the first time I heard HS girls playing Elvis, All Shook Up and Hound Dog.
Doris Day is still alive? Who knew?
Virgins live longer.
True story. I owe Doris Day a debt of gratitude. Because of her I view all celebrities with disdain. When I was a young’un around the 1955 time frame, we lived in Carmel and she was shooting a movie in town. Here I was in the 3rd grade. I gathered up all the courage I could to approach her and ask her for an autograph. I walked up and politely asked her and she blew me off like a gnat. Crushed I walked away with my head down but from that day forward, I have always held celebs in low esteem. So a hearty thanks there doris. I may respect their work but as persons, they can KMA cause none of them are better than me. WOO HOO! (I wanted to share with everybody that posted but couldn’t figure out how to reply to “all”)
I loved that sound, hated R&R. Bring back that sound -- "Dear one . . . the world . . . is waiting for the suuuun-rise . . . Ev . . . 'ry rose . . is cover'd . . . with de-e-ew . . ." from the Wurlitzer, with Cokes, in the soda shoppe . . . long go-o-o-one.
Strange title for that article. Sure, getting old sucks, but she seems to he handling it as well as anyone could. I wish her all the best.
“I remember her afternoon variety show, back when she and Burt Reynolds were an item.”
Wasn’t that Dinah Shore?
Ee-e-e-ew1 Hated that! Heard it I think fall of '56 fixing my room at Syracuse U, but "Heartbreak Hotel" was in the winter before, IIRC. My wife was 3 years younger We married after Christmas in 1957; she was just 18. I was just too old at 21, with non-Elvisian musical standards. I've never gotten out of the '40s . . .
Wow. I was 11 when I heard it
How about ‘Midnight Lace’ with Rex Harrison?
It displayed her talent as a fine dramatic actress.
Doris was one of the best ‘cryers’ in the business- along with Margaret O’Brien.
I read that she got herself ready for the crying dramatic scene by thinking of how her husband beat her and kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant.
She became hysterical during the scene and had to take several days off the set.
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