Post by Jaga on May 14, 2019 5:28:47 GMT -7
she was known for her song: "Que sera sera" and for her unbroken spirit. She represented good in American entertainment industry
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/doris-day-tribute-death-age-pillow-talk-rock-hudson-calamity-jane-a8912056.html
Although Day, who has died aged 97, may have initially disliked what has become her signature song, “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will be, Will be)”, it’s a fitting representation of how she lived her life. She may have become Hollywood’s biggest female star by the early 1960s, but the life she faced behind the camera wasn’t as smooth as her beaming smile always seemed to suggest. Born Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff on 3 April 1922, she first wanted to be a dancer, until a car crash left her with serious injuries to her right leg and ended her career before it barely began. Day, however, didn’t allow the accident to curb her spirit. Instead, she would while away her days in recovery singing along to the radio, discovering she had quite the talent for it.
At 15, she joined up with a local bandleader, Barney Rapp. In 1941, a teenage Day married trombonist Al Jorden, but they divorced two years later. She had her only child, Terry, during the marriage. It was after she left Rapp and began to work with Les Brown that she scored her first hit, 1945’s “Sentimental Journey”, with its dreamy tones becoming a favourite with soldiers returning from the front lines, yearning desperately for home.
A gig at a Hollywood party saw her catch the attention of songwriter Jule Styne, who was enraptured by her rendition of “Embraceable You” and invited her for a screen test. She landed her first part, in 1948’s Romance on the High Seas, followed by several more appearances in popular musicals, including 1953’s Calamity Jane, a film that helped cement what James Cagney once called “the epitome of guilelessness”. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she shifted towards comedy, as the gutsy romantic lead playing off a string of Hollywood’s most bankable men, including Clark Gable, Jack Lemmon, Cary Grant, James Garner, David Niven, and most importantly, Rock Hudson....
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/doris-day-tribute-death-age-pillow-talk-rock-hudson-calamity-jane-a8912056.html
Although Day, who has died aged 97, may have initially disliked what has become her signature song, “Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will be, Will be)”, it’s a fitting representation of how she lived her life. She may have become Hollywood’s biggest female star by the early 1960s, but the life she faced behind the camera wasn’t as smooth as her beaming smile always seemed to suggest. Born Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff on 3 April 1922, she first wanted to be a dancer, until a car crash left her with serious injuries to her right leg and ended her career before it barely began. Day, however, didn’t allow the accident to curb her spirit. Instead, she would while away her days in recovery singing along to the radio, discovering she had quite the talent for it.
At 15, she joined up with a local bandleader, Barney Rapp. In 1941, a teenage Day married trombonist Al Jorden, but they divorced two years later. She had her only child, Terry, during the marriage. It was after she left Rapp and began to work with Les Brown that she scored her first hit, 1945’s “Sentimental Journey”, with its dreamy tones becoming a favourite with soldiers returning from the front lines, yearning desperately for home.
A gig at a Hollywood party saw her catch the attention of songwriter Jule Styne, who was enraptured by her rendition of “Embraceable You” and invited her for a screen test. She landed her first part, in 1948’s Romance on the High Seas, followed by several more appearances in popular musicals, including 1953’s Calamity Jane, a film that helped cement what James Cagney once called “the epitome of guilelessness”. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, she shifted towards comedy, as the gutsy romantic lead playing off a string of Hollywood’s most bankable men, including Clark Gable, Jack Lemmon, Cary Grant, James Garner, David Niven, and most importantly, Rock Hudson....
