When was Doris Day born?

Doris Day was born on 3 April 1922 in Cincinnati.

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Doris Day

American actress and singer (1922–2019)

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Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned 75 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.

Quick facts

Born: 3 April 1922 wd
Place of birth: Cincinnati wd
Died: 13 May 2019 wd
Place of death: Carmel Valley wd
Citizenship: United States wd
Occupation: film actor, singer, television actor, recording artist, actor, politician wd
Political party: Republican Party wd
Spouse: Al Jorden, George William Weidler, Martin Melcher wd
Official website: dorisday.com wd
Social media: Facebook wd

Awards wd

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Henrietta Award (1959)
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1988)
Grammy Hall of Fame (1998)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004)
Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1981)
Grammy Awards
Los Angeles Times Women of the Year Silver Cup
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

About

Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Her recording of "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" became known as her signature song and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.

Day made her film debut with the musical Romance on the High Seas (1948). She played the title role in the musical Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in the thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). She co-starred with Rock Hudson in three successful comedies: Pillow Talk (1959), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Lover Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers (1964). Day also worked with actor James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963). After ending her film career in 1968, she starred in her own television sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).

In 1989, Day was awarded the Golden Globe and the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she was awarded the Los Angeles Film…

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