Die Doris Day, the legendary actress and singer who became “the girl on the side” of the golden age of Hollywood

Today has passed away, one of the stars of the film most successful of all time. Doris Day epitomized the “girl next door” with a special charm,  creating a chemical unrecoverable with Rock Hudson in a series of successful comedies, as ‘Pajamas for two’, ‘I don’t send flowers’ or ‘Confidences of midnight.’

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Born in Cincinnati, the daughter of a music teacher and homemaker, Day dreamed of a career in the world of dance, but at 12 years old she broke a leg when he was hit by a train. Listening to the radio while he was recovering, he began to sing according to Ella Fitzgerald, “trying to capture the subtle ways in which sombreaba his voice, the way casual but clear with the that he his letters.”

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The rest is history charm of its own. Such was his magnetism that, in addition to Hudson, neither could resist their charms Cary Grant (‘Soft as mink’) or James Garner (‘Her little adventure’, ‘Away with you, sweetheart’), but perhaps he is best remembered as the companion of James Stewart in ‘The man who knew too much’, where, in addition to was commissioned to sing the song that was the only Oscar the film of Hitchcock.

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Doris Day had a prolific career in film and musicalwith more than 600 recordings. At the height of her career, she was the queen of the box office and also of the lists of successes. Doris Day died this morning as a result of pneumonia. He was 97 years old.

On the screen, the lovely girl next door never failed to find love. is Off the screen, unfortunately, was not so lucky. Poor Doris was married four times, and the four went wrong. Betrayals, ruined, suicide, ill-treatment… to make matters worse, his only son, Terry Melcher, the fruit of his first marriage and whom he had with 19 years, passed away in 2004. 

in the mid-seventies, the Day he retired and established the League of Animal Doris Day (The Doris Day Animal League) for the protection of animals in danger, currently being one of the most influential activists of that movement.

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