Doris Day - Que Sera Sera
Doris Day A Sentimental
Journey
Doris Day - You Are My
Sunshine
Doris Day ~~~ Perhaps
Perhaps Perhaps
Doris Day's 90th birthday
celebration
Doris
Day
For other people named Doris Day, see Doris Day (disambiguation).
Doris
Day (born Doris
Mary Ann Kappelhoff, April 3, 1922 or 1924)[1] is an American actress, singer, and
animal rights activist.
Day began
her career as a big band singer in 1939. Her popularity began to rise after her
first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After
leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her
long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only
recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than
650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the
20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and
her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast as
the female lead inRomance on the High Seas.
Over the
course of her career, Day appeared in 39 films. She was ranked the biggest
box-office star, the only woman on that list, for four years (1960, 1962, 1963
and 1964) ranking in the top 10 for ten years (1951–1952 and 1959–1966). She
became the top-ranking female box-office star of all time and is currently
ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers (male and female), as of
2012.[2] She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards
(World Film Favorite), received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement
Award and, in 1989,
received theCecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion
pictures. Day made her last film in 1968.
Day has
released 31 albums, and her songs have spent a total of 460 weeks in the Top 40
charts.[3] She has been awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she released her
29th studio album, My Heart, which debuted at No. 9 on the UK
Top 40 charts. As of January 2014, Day is the oldest living artist to score a
UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material.
Her strong
commitment to animal welfare began in 1971, when she co-founded "Actors
and Others for Animals". She started her own non-profit organization in
the late 1970s, the Doris Day Animal Foundation and, later, the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL). Establishing the annual
observance Spay Day USA in
1994, the Doris Day Animal League now partners with The Humane Society of the United States and continues to be a leading advocacy
organization. In 2004, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished
service to the country. Day is retired from acting and performing, but has
continued her work in animal rights causes and animal welfare.
