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FAREWELL DORIS Doris Day dead at 97 – Legendary actress passes away after 80 YEAR career as...
TheSun ^ | may 13, 2019 | Tariq Tahir

Posted on 05/13/2019 6:10:08 AM PDT by blueyon

""FAREWELL DORIS Doris Day dead at 97 – Legendary actress passes away after 80 YEAR career as a Hollywood icon"" The actress was renowned for her wholesome image and starred in several hit films

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dorisday; dorisdayobit; hollywood; movies; obituary
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To: blueyon

Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati. My mother had dance lessons right after Doris and used to pass her on the stairs. The conversation never got beyond hello.

RIP, Doris.


61 posted on 05/13/2019 7:08:41 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep.

That was the joke the jazz guys told about her; they knew her before she was a virgin.


62 posted on 05/13/2019 7:09:22 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: blueyon

Congratulations on a life well lived.

I have nearly all her movies ... but I never much cared for “Que Sera Sera.” Well, that’s just me.


63 posted on 05/13/2019 7:12:31 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: blueyon
A GIANT talent and a LOT of WOMAN.

God Bless her soul.

64 posted on 05/13/2019 7:14:59 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Lena Horne passed away nearly a decade ago.


65 posted on 05/13/2019 7:15:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: blueyon

I absolutely love Doris Day. One of the true greats.


66 posted on 05/13/2019 7:16:19 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (This Deplorable is not fooled by the Marxist-Stalinist totalitarians infesting the Dem Party.)
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To: blueyon

I loved the movies she was in..So clean and refreshing ..

RIP BEAUTIFUL LADY.


67 posted on 05/13/2019 7:20:38 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Sacajaweau

Dinah Shore....

But I understand the confusion.


68 posted on 05/13/2019 7:21:25 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: blueyon
I vividly remember her television show, which was revamped a couple times. First she lived on a farm with Denver Pyle. Then she was the same farm girl working in the city with Rose Marie (this was my favorite). Then they started from scratch and she was a completely different character working for "Si" (James Gregory).

So goes another link to a sane past.

69 posted on 05/13/2019 7:23:50 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
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To: TBP
Doris had a one of a kind fantastic singing voice. Born to a music teacher and a housewife, she had dreamed of a dance career, but at age 12, she suffered a crippling accident: a car she was in was hit by a train and her leg was badly broken. Listening to the radio while recuperating, she began singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, “trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.”
70 posted on 05/13/2019 7:27:58 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: knarf
When there still used to be girls like her next door...when America was still America.


71 posted on 05/13/2019 7:29:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

That album cover says it all about her contrived mystique. Buttoned up, legs crossed tight as a ball unapproachable super uptight virgin.


72 posted on 05/13/2019 7:37:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: blueyon; All
Correction: Cy Bennett was played by John Dehner, not James Gregory. Gregory was the old guy from "Barney Miller."
73 posted on 05/13/2019 7:38:06 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
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To: knarf

She was literally “the girl next door” to Clint Eastwood...neighbors and buds. If she was good for Clint she was good.


74 posted on 05/13/2019 7:42:14 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

The story of how Doris Day came to star in a TV series:

When her third husband Martin Melcher died on April 20, 1968, a shocked Day discovered that Melcher and his business partner Jerome Bernard Rosenthal had squandered her earnings, leaving her deeply in debt. Rosenthal had been her attorney since 1949, when he represented her in her uncontested divorce action against her second husband, saxophonist George W. Weidler. Day filed suit against Rosenthal in February 1969, won a successful decision in 1974, but did not receive compensation until a settlement in 1979.

Day also learned to her displeasure that Melcher had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

“It was awful”, Day told OK! Magazine in 1996. “I was really, really not very well when Marty [Melcher] passed away, and the thought of going into TV was overpowering. But he’d signed me up for a series. And then my son Terry [Melcher] took me walking in Beverly Hills and explained that it wasn’t nearly the end of it. I had also been signed up for a bunch of TV specials, all without anyone ever asking me.”

Day hated the idea of performing on television, but felt obligated to do it. The first episode of The Doris Day Show aired on September 24, 1968, and, from 1968 to 1973, employed “Que Sera, Sera” as its theme song. Day persevered (she needed the work to help pay off her debts), but only after CBS ceded creative control to her and her son. The successful show enjoyed a five-year run, and functioned as a curtain raiser for the popular Carol Burnett Show. It is remembered today for its abrupt season-to-season changes in casting and premise.

By the end of its run in 1973, public tastes had changed and her firmly established persona was regarded as passé. She largely retired from acting after The Doris Day Show, but did complete two television specials, The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (1971) and Doris Day Today (1975).

Turns out, animals were so much easier to work with, and far more grateful, than Hollywood ever was.


75 posted on 05/13/2019 7:45:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: blueyon
Doris Day was very much into pet rescues, and owned a boutique pet-friendly hotel in Carmel, CA. I almost stayed there once, but had to cancel at the last minute do to a serious family illness.

-PJ

76 posted on 05/13/2019 7:46:14 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: blueyon

I always thought Doris Day was a classic beauty. RIP.


77 posted on 05/13/2019 7:48:03 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: alloysteel

——“Que Sera, Sera” as its theme song. -—

Ironically, she never sang Que Sera, Sera. She always sang Que Seda, Seda.

She didn’t even know the words to the song


78 posted on 05/13/2019 7:49:09 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: litehaus
Would that young women today saw her as - ‘What I want to grow up to be’

Ditto to that. I think I will watch Calamity Jane tonight.

79 posted on 05/13/2019 7:50:15 AM PDT by saminfl
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To: Sacajaweau
"See the USA in your Chevrolet".

Wasn't that Dinah Shore?

80 posted on 05/13/2019 7:51:52 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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