![]() Among the other songs she made famous were “Everybody Loves a Lover,” ″Secret Love,” and “It’s Magic,” a song from her first film, “Romance on the High Seas.”Ĭritic Gary Giddins called her “the coolest and sexiest female singer of slow-ballads in movie history.”ĭay was cast in “Romance on the High Seas” after Judy Garland and Betty Hutton bowed out. Her first singing hit was the 1945 smash “Sentimental Journey,” when she was barely in her 20s. The nation’s theater owners voted her the top moneymaking star in 1960, 1962, 19. In “That Touch of Mink,” she turned back advances from Grant and in “The Thrill of It All” played a housewife who gains fame as a TV pitchwoman to the chagrin of obstetrician husband James Garner. It was the first of three films with Hudson. She sang “Que Sera, Sera” just as the story reached its climax.īut she found her greatest success in slick, stylish sex comedies, beginning with 1959′s Oscar-nominated “Pillow Talk,” in which she and Hudson played two New Yorkers who shared a telephone party line. She followed with “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” starring with James Stewart as an innocent couple ensnared in an international assassination plot. After early stardom as a band singer and a stint at Warner Bros., Day won the best notices of her career with 1955′s “Love Me or Leave Me,” the story of songstress Ruth Etting and her gangster husband-manager. Her Hollywood career began after she sang at a Hollywood party in 1947. ![]() She returned to Les Brown’s band after the first marriage broke up. Her second marriage also was short-lived. She gave birth to her son, Terry, in early 1942. A bandleader changed her name to Day after the song “Day after Day” to fit it on a marquee.Ī marriage at 17 to trombonist Al Jorden ended when, she said, he beat her when she was eight months’ pregnant. Listening to the radio while recuperating, she began singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, studying the singer and the subtleties of her voice.ĭay began singing at a Cincinnati radio station, then a nightclub, then in New York. He cited films like “Calamity Jane,” ″Move Over, Darling” and others and said he would “always remember her twinkling smile and infectious laugh.”ĭay “was kind and decent, onscreen and off she maintained her friendship with Rock Hudson after his AIDS diagnosis, in a climate of fear and abandonment - one of his last appearances was on a TV show with her,” playwright Paul Rudnick tweeted.īorn to a music teacher and a housewife in Cincinnati, Day dreamed of a dance career but at age 12 broke her leg badly when a car in which she was traveling was hit by a train. “She had a heart of gold and was a very funny lady who I shared many laughs with.” “Visiting her in her Californian home was like going to an animal sanctuary where her many dogs were taken care of in splendid style,” he said in a statement. Paul McCartney, a friend, called Day “a true star in more ways than one.” “She is an icon in the animal protection world and will be sorely missed for her singular advocacy,” Amundson said. ![]() Her foresight “led to dozens of bills, final rules and policies on the federal level,” which helped end abusive videos, protect chimpanzees from invasive research and regulate the online sale of puppies. In 1987, Day “founded one of the first national animal protection organizations dedicated to legislative remedies for the worst animal abuse,” said the league’s executive director, Sara Amundson. The Humane Society of the United States, of which The Doris Day Animal League is an affiliate, praised Day as a pioneer in animal protection. ![]()
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