Doris Day
Birthday: 1922-04-03
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography: Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 - May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer, and an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey". In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, she was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Holl...
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Send Me No Flowers
When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happi...
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Pillow Talk
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Mo...
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Move Over, Darling
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas A...
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The Thrill of It All
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life....
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My Dream Is Yours
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to ...
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It's a Great Feeling
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big b...
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Tea for Two
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that s...
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Midnight Lace
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon...
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Lucky Me
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy ...
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The Glass Bottom Boat
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biogra...
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That Touch of Mink
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne co...
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Young Man with a Horn
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jaz...
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Storm Warning
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Kla...
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The Pajama Game
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the...
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Lover Come Back
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike e...
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It Happened to Jane
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattenti...
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Love Me or Leave Me
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gan...
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April in Paris
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American th...
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Calamity Jane
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to t...
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On Moonlight Bay
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begi...
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including W...
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she ...
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Young at Heart
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complic...
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Teacher's Pet
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor....
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression....
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Lullaby of Broadway
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to s...
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Romance on the High Seas
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself whil...
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Caprice
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a...
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Do Not Disturb
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon...
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The Tunnel of Love
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adop...
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With Six You Get Eggroll
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter, begin da...
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apart...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War...
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The Ballad of Josie
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming....
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The West Point Story
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assort...
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock H...
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The Winning Team
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's ...
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Doris Day: It's Magic
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her p...
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Starlift
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie ge...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar
A documentary about Doris Day and the question where she is today....
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists ...
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Is It Love or Is It Conscription?
Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra...
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Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Da...
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NASA
A promotional short for The Glass Bottom Boat. Details NASA's participation in the production of the...
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV s...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
The making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'....
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The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special
This was the first of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS' 1968 multi-million-doll...
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney,...
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'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
This half-hour family special is a delightful combination of animated adaptations of classic holiday...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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Doris Day Today
America's sweetheart Doris Day offers songs and sketches with some of her famous friends in this sma...
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Every Girl's Dream
Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at th...
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Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on the Ball
Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrit...
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So You Want a Television Set
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop ...
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Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs su...
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with...
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With Love, Doris!
An in-depth documentary built around never-before-heard audio tapes of Day responding to letters fro...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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Grace Kelly: The Missing Millions
What happened to the wealth classic Hollywood actress Grace Kelly earned during her incredibly succe...
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