Autobiography of doris day
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Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
This article is about the American actress and singer. For other uses, see Doris Day (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Dorothy Day.
Doris Day | |
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Day in a Publicity portrait. | |
| Born | Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff (1922-04-03)April 3, 1922 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 13, 2019(2019-05-13) (aged 97) Carmel Valley, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1937–2012 |
| Spouses | Al Jorden (m. 1941; div. 1943)George Weidler (m. 1946; div. 1949)Martin Melcher (m. 1951; died 1968)Barry Comden (m. 1976; div. 1982) |
| Children | Terry Melcher |
| Website | dorisday.com |
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She 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
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Q “Can you say something about the experience of writing both books in terms of any similarities or marked differences and to what extent you feel that the finished book was as close as you could have gotten to revealing the person being written about – and what the critical and public reaction to both books has been?”
David Kaufman: “The first editor of my Ludlam biography told me that even though Ludlam was dead before I began working on the book, after I interviewed everyone who had known and or worked with him, I would know Ludlam better than any of them, since I would come to know him from their multiple perspectives. The same is true of Doris Day. Though I never spoke to her directly, I interviewed well over a hundred people who had, over the years, lived with and or worked with her. I know who she was from all of their perspectives, which is far more telling than anything I might have gained from her personally.
The fact is Doris Day said what she had to say about her past in her memoir, written with AE Hotchner, in 1975. On the other hand, Rex Reed told me that Doris told him, years later, that she wanted to do another memoir, to correct all of the errors in the Hotchner book – of which there are many. I tried, as best I could, to set the record