Doris Day
Biography
Doris Day, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was an American actress and singer. She started as a big band vocalist in 1937 and found commercial success in 1945 with Les Brown on the No. 1 recordings Sentimental Journey and My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time. Leaving the band for a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs between 1947 and 1967. Her film debut came with Romance on the High Seas (1948), and she later took the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). In 1959, Pillow Talk earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; she reunited with Rock Hudson for Lover Come Back (1961) and for Send Me No Flowers (1964). After finishing her film work in 1968, she headlined The Doris Day Show until 1973. Her honors included the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1989 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.
97years old at death
- Born Cincinnati
- Died Carmel Valley
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff (birth name)Also credited as Doris Mary Kappelhoff
Movie Career
- Films
- 33
- Career span
- 75 years1948 to 2023
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A role that slipped away
Doris Day turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate because she found the script vulgar and offensive, and the part went to Anne Bancroft.
About the name
In 1939, bandleader Rapp told her to take the stage name Doris Day. He thought Kappelhoff was too long for marquees, and he liked how she sang the song "Day After Day."
A first
In a yearly nationwide poll of disc jockeys run by Billboard, Day was voted the No. 1 female vocalist nine times across ten years, from 1949 through 1958.
A role that slipped away
Doris Day turned down tribute offers from the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center Honors. Both of those honors require that the people receiving them attend in person.
Doris Day movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
David Butler directed four of these films, Michael Curtiz three and Michael Gordon two. Three actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Rock Hudson's page
Gig Young's page
Elisabeth Fraser's page
Bess Flowers's page
Jack Carson's page
Mary Wickes's page
All films by David Butler
Michael CurtizDirector, 3 films, 1948 to 1950
All films by Michael Curtiz
All films by Michael Gordon
Also three films together7 more actors
- Edward AndrewsThe Glass Bottom Boat (1966), Send Me No Flowers (1964) and The Thrill of It All (1963)
- Jack KruschenCaprice (1967), Lover Come Back (1961) and Julie (1956)
- John AstinMove Over, Darling (1963), Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) and That Touch of Mink (1962)
- Tony RandallSend Me No Flowers (1964), Lover Come Back (1961) and Pillow Talk (1959)
- Hayden RorkeThe Thrill of It All (1963), Midnight Lace (1960) and Pillow Talk (1959)
- S.Z. SakallTea for Two (1950), My Dream Is Yours (1949) and Romance on the High Seas (1948)
- Gordon MacRaeBy the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), On Moonlight Bay (1951) and Tea for Two (1950)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Doris Day's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$102 million
12 of the 33 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 33 films: 12 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 16 figure not found.
- 12Worldwide figure
- 4US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 16Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 88% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$19M18.4% of the total
- 2$17M16.6% of the total
- 3$13M12.5% of the total
- 4$11M11.1% of the total
- 5$9.1M9.0% of the total
- 6$8.0M7.9% of the total
- 7$7.4M7.3% of the total
- 8$5.2M5.1% of the total
$12.4 millionfrom the other 4 films with a worldwide figure, 12% of the total
Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 1957 to 2011, six of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Globes | |||
| 1988 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Won | |
| Grammy Awards | |||
| 2011 | Grammy Hall of Fame | Won | |
| 2008 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | |
| 2007 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | Won | |
| 1998 | Grammy Hall of Fame | Won | |
| Grammy Awards | Won | ||
| Other honors | |||
| 2004 | Presidential Medal of Freedom | Won | |
| 1981 | Ohio Women's Hall of Fame | Won | |
| 1962 | Henrietta Award | Won | |
| 1959 | Henrietta Award | Won | |
| 1957 | Henrietta Award | Won | |
| Los Angeles Times Women of the Year Silver Cup | Won | ||
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.