Doris Day, born Doris Kappelhoff,
launched her career as a singer with dance bands in
the late 1940s. She achieved quick recognition and
popularity.
By the 1960s Doris Day had become the queen
of the suggestive (for the time) Hollywood sex comedy, usually
opposite Rock Hudson. Day also appeared in a string of popular
films opposite many other top stars, including Cary
Grant, David Niven, James
Garner, and Richard Harris. Doris Day's defining role was
with Cary Grant in THAT TOUCH OF MINK as a "good girl"
pursued by playboy Grant.
Her notable films include: SEND
ME NO FLOWERS and PILLOW
TALK.
Doris Day continued to make films, of varying
popularity, eventually retiring from film in the late 1960s.
In 1968, Day's last feature was WITH SIX YOU GET EGG ROLL,
opposite Brain Keith.
Director Albert Brooks recently tried to
lure Doris Day out of retirement, to appear opposite him in
MOTHER, to no effect. Debbie Reynolds eventually left her
retirement to take the roll.
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