Hollywoods Leading Lady Doris Day Turns 80 April 3rd

[Disney Guru]

Happy Birthday Miss Doris Day

April 3rd is her Birthday

for all of those interested their is going to be a big online party!

This Is Going To be The On Line Party of The Century So All Attend And Enjoy Yourselves!

Click Here For More Information

http://www.dorisday.tk/


This will be the biggest online Extravaganza of the year featuring Singing and Tributes To Hollywoods Leading Lady Miss Doris Day!

For all of you who don't know who Doris Day Is Here Is A Brief Biograhy

By Stephen Munns President of http://www.dorisdaytribute.com

Born Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff on the 3rd of April 1924, she grew up in Evanston, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). It was during her teens, after encouragement from her mother, that she began studying with a vocal coach who arranged for her to perform on local radio. Needless to say, she was soon snapped up by band leader Barney Rapp. Rapp was also instrumental in changing her name:

“When he asked me my name I said it was Doris Kappelhoff. He said it’s a very nice name but (laughs) it’s a little too long for the marquee outside.” – Doris Day

Rapp was impressed enough to hire her after she sang Day After Day, and the song’s title inspired her new stage name….Doris Day.

Subsequently, Doris moved to Chicago to sing with Bob Crosby and his Bobcats and within weeks, aged only 16, found herself in New York fronting Les Brown’s band. Touring and a series of successful records followed, such as the huge million-seller Sentimental Journey (1945). This paved the way to an inevitable solo recording contract which came when Columbia Records signed her.

Doris began recording for Columbia in February 1947, heralding the start of a very productive partnership. Over the next twenty years, hundreds of magical recordings followed, establishing her as one of America’s foremost female vocalists. She also achieved commercially eleven Top 20 albums in the USA and over fifty hit singles world-wide, including million sellers like Love Somebody (1948), It’s Magic (1948), A Guy Is A Guy (1952), and Academy Award winning songs Secret Love (1954) and Que Sera, Sera (1956).

“When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take…I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.” – Doris Day

If this wasn’t impressive enough, in 1947 a very young Doris Day also began her transition into motion pictures, initially signing to Warner Bros. A score of musical and dramatic roles followed including Calamity Jane (1953), Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Her career then soared to new heights as a result of a glowing performance alongside leading man Rock Hudson in the romantic-comedy Pillow Talk (1959). For this role she was nominated at the Oscars for “Best Actress”. Soon after, she had established herself as “America’s #1 Box-Office Attraction” retaining this prestigious position with further releases such as Lover Come Back (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962) and Move Over, Darling (1963).

During the late 1960s, Doris began slowly but surely taking a step back from Hollywood’s fast paced showbiz world. Having made a total of 39 films she left the big screen to appear in The Doris Day Show (1968-73) a hugely popular prime time family-sitcom for American network CBS. By the mid 1970s, she was all but ready to leave the glitzy spotlight of Tinseltown. Publishing her memoirs in her #1 best-seller Her Own Story (1975) was her way to close one chapter in order to begin another just as exciting and rewarding in her new home of Carmel, California (USA).

Although the Doris of today is so far removed from her showbiz heyday, she still remains the same vibrant and sunny character that people remember. It’s just that her days of being in make-up, on film sets or at Columbia’s recording studios are now replaced with eventful days surrounded by and caring for her many four legged friends, who live with her on her vast and picturesque estate.

Her concerns are no longer learning lines or lyrics but to lobby tirelessly for the sake of suffering animals, defending their rights to the hilt. This is something she does out of sheer passion and sincere conviction through her two animal charities, the Doris Day Animal League and the Doris Day Animal Foundation.

No matter whether Doris ever chooses to return to the world of entertainment there is no denying her legacy of music and film will remain forever young in the hearts of the people who discover it.

Stephen Munns
February 2004


We Hope To see everybody attend this big extravaganza! It will be loads of fun so get out your party hats and come on down!

[cittycatie]

um... I'm not sure whether I should go or not okay ????????????????
catie

[mitch_evers]

I LOVE Doris Day!

Did you know that Marlon Brando also turns on 80 on Satutrday? And that Ms Day's two time co-star and star of Disney's 'Castaway Cowboy' and 'One Little Indian' James Garner is 76 next Wednesday (7th April). I'm gonna watch 'The Rockford Files' ALL DAY!!! Well probably not ALL day, but I might squeeze in one or two.

Unfortunatley I have to work on Saturday, but in the evening, if the party is still swinging, then you try and stop me from coming!

Until then let raise our glasses to the birthday girl and boys!! Ms Day and Misters Brando and Garner, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and love to you all.

[Loomis]

I hope it isn't a surprise birthday party...

I can see the headlines now

Doris Day Dead at 80
April 3, 2004

Doris Day, screen legend, dropped dead in her home during a surprise birthday party. The star of so many films opened the door to her home to be greeted by hundreds of online fanatics. The shock was so severe, she suffered a massive heart attack and died before ambulances could reach her.

"The look on her face was priceless," one fan commented. "Just before she fell over anyway".

The attendees of the party have donated all their loose change to the Doris Day Animal Foundation, and her ashes will be scattered over the computers of the fan base.

April 3 will now officially be known as 'Doris Day'.

Born Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff on the 3rd of April 1924, she grew up in Evanston, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). It was during her teens...



Hey, it COULD happen!!

On a related note the Oldest Australian Turns 111!!

[Disney Guru]

She will probablly not be there!

It will be the online party of the century! So Get your Confetti and Party Hats and come on down! It will be fun fun fun! I know that I will be there and I have a bunch of online friends that will be there to!

I am a huge Doris Fanatic I own 35 out of her 39 movies THe Ones I don't have are

Midnight Lace
Where Were You WHen The Lighs Went Out
Calamity Jane
Romance On The High Seas

Including in the 35 movies I own I own her 6 movies that were never released commercially on home video. THe other 29 are the authentic releases on VHS not Tv Recordings or anything and they are in their origional studio packaging! I would never sell my Doris Day stuff for anything!

Doris is the best Actress that ever touched the silver screen!

And get this My Birthday is on April 2nd!

[Disney Guru]

The party starts at 8 PM Eastern Time which is 6 PM Mountain Time and goes all night!

[Jack]

Hey Guru I Can't Wait this will BE so much fun fun fun I love Doris Day Yay Yay!

[Disney Guru]

Yes Jack it will be a lot of fun can't wait to see you there!

[mitch_evers]

Hey Disney Guru!

I think I've found my ideal woman. Or man (it's tough to tell, so no offence please). You're more obsessed than me! The Doris movies missing from my collection are:

It's a Great Feeling (which I have seen)
Storm Warning (which I haven't)
Starlift (haven't)
Young at Heart (have)
Tunnel of Love (haven't)
Where Were You... (have)

I can't believe you don't own Calamity Jane!! This is cornerstone for all good Doris collections!! If you havn't seen Where Were You... then you really arn't missing much. It would have to be my second least Doris movie, I'm not too keen on Jumbo. Still I would probably own it, if only for completest purposes, as it also star Terry Thomas who I like too. Maybe thats why I don't think very highly of it, two stars who I like and I found it disapointing. Maybe if I watched it again I'd like it more.

I just thought, I can use the internet at work!! I hope Doris doesn't mind me turning up in my work gear. By the way, how does an on-line party work? I've never been to one. Please let me know.

See you Saturday,

WHIP-CRACK-AWAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Disney Guru]

With Me I bought the hard to find ones before I got the easy to find ones!

The 2 ones that were hardest for me to find were Starlift and Storm Warning! And Ballad Of Josie, DO NOT DISTURB, CAPRICE, and It Happened To Jane which where 4 of her 6 movies that were never commercially released were as easy as cake to find!

i love Doris Day My favorite Doris Day Film is Glass Bottom Boat! My least favorite is DO NOT DISTURB! I have seen all 39 of Doris's Movies But I only own 35 out of her 39 films. i also own Some CD'S a ton of REPRO posters and a lot of other stuff!

[Disney Guru]

It is just a CHAT but if you have microphones which most of us do then you can play music and people with speakers on their computers will here it! It is going to be kind of a music fest! It will be fun and we will talk about our Doris Day colletions talk about what we have and we would like to have maby some trading will start to get stuff you don't have that you want!

Doris Day music will be playing in the background! we will learn some Doris Day History from the chairmans of the Doris Day YaHoo Fan Club! And it will be fun and you can share your experiences of how you started to collect Doris Day Memorbilia and so forth!

Please come we want a big attendance!

[mitch_evers]

I never really set out to collect all of her films, I've liked for years so my collection has just grown kind naturally. It's strange that your best and least favourite films are her two with Rod Taylor. I have to say that I love Rod Taylor but like you I think Do Not Disturb just doesn't measure up. I think though that I lean more towards her films from the 1950s and if I were to compile a list of favouites my top 5 would probably be, in no particular order:

Love Me or Leave Me
My Dream is Yours
Calamity Jane
The Pajama Game
Young Man with a Horn

After those I'd probably put her films with Rock Hudson, The Thrill of It All with James Garner and a couple more of the musicals, either Romance on the High Seas or On Moonlight Bay. I do enjoy The Glass Bottom Boat in its kooky kind of way and I also have a soft spot for West Point Story, I think 'cause she seems all sweet and innocent and freckly in it.

What's your favourite of Doris' recordings? I love the Latin for Lovers album. She does a beautiful version of Our Day Will Come and Quiet Nights of Quiet stars on that one.

I'm so pleased I've found someone else who loves Doris!

[Disney Guru]

You should see Starlift and Storm Warning i love them!

My favorite Recording is Que Sera Sera, Anyway The Wind Blows, Teachers Pet, It's Magic, and The Glass Bottom Boat! My favorite Album is It's Magic!

[mitch_evers]

It took me ages to find a recording of the Glass Bottom Boat theme song. I finally found it on an old LP called Singin' In The Rain in a charity shop. I've never seen it on CD. Is it on CD and can you tell me which one?

All this talk of Doris has made me play Latin for Lovers. Your right I probably would like Starlift (I also like Gordon Macrae) and Storm Warning as they are from the Doris era that I like best. You can't get those titles in the UK either. I have seen them on ebay, but I've never gotten around to bidding. One of these old days...

[Disney Guru]

I don't remember where I got hold of the Glass bottom boat Theme Song Oh yes I do ! Know I remember I recorded it off my tv with a microhone that I have on my laptop then I burned it and a bunch of her other songs onto a CD!

[Escapay]

An ONLINE Party? Is that even possible???

Al G

[MickeyMousePal]

I don't know if I will attend this party.
I have a lot of homework this weekend and have to make reviews for Luke, but who knows.

[Disney Guru]

Just go to it it is a chat! Actually but their will be music in the background and you can tell your Story of How you started to like Miss Day and such it will be a lot of fun!

[Just Myself]

Who the hey is Doris Day?

[Disney Guru]

Hey read the brief biography that I have of Doris Day on my opening thread!

You should like it a lot! It is very snazzy! And very very professional!