Biography
Doris Day is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day began her career as a big band singer in 1939. Her popularity began to rise after her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast as the female lead in Romance on the High Seas.
Over the course of her career, Day appeared in 39 films. She was ranked the biggest box-office star, the only woman on that list, for four years (1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964) ranking in the top 10 for ten years (1951–1952 and 1959–1966). She became the top-ranking female box-office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers (male and female), as of 2012. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards (World Film Favorite), received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Day made her last film in 1968.
Most Notable Awards
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| Oscars | 1 Nomination |
| Golden Globe | 3 Wins |
Day has released 31 albums, and her songs have spent a total of 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts. She has been awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which debuted at No. 9 on the UK Top 40 charts. As of January 2014, Day is the oldest living artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material. Her strong commitment to animal welfare began in 1971, when she co-founded "Actors and Others for Animals". She started her own non-profit organization in the late 1970s, the Doris Day Animal Foundation and, later, the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL). Establishing the annual observance Spay Day USA in 1994, the Doris Day Animal League now partners with the Humane Society of the United States and continues to be a leading advocacy organization. In 2004, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country. Day is retired from acting and performing, but has continued her work in animal rights causes and animal welfare. She currently lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Filmography List
| 2013 | Ray Donovan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) -Man | Performer |
| 2012-2013 | Call the Midwife (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) | Performer |
| 2012 | Vegas (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2012 | American Horror Story (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2012 | Moeder, ik wil bij de revue (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2012 | Timeshift (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2012 | The Art Of... When You're Hot, Young, Poor and a Filmmaker! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2012 | Woody Allen: A Documentary (Documentary) (performer: "Sentimental Journey") | Performer |
| 2011 | Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) | Performer |
| 2011 | Shooting the Hollywood Stars (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Hooray for Hollywood") | Performer |
| 2010 | Frankie & Alice (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)") | Performer |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia (performer: "A Bushel and a Peck") | Performer |
| 2009 | Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (Video documentary) (performer: "I'm in Love") | Performer |
| 2008 | Katherine Jenkins: A Girl from Neath (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)" | Performer |
| 2008 | Bronson (performer: "Tea For Two") | Performer |
| 2008 | Comme les autres (lyrics: "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizás, Quizás, Quizás)") / (performer: "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizás, Quizás, Quizás)") | Performer |
| 2007 | Fred Claus (performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)", "Ludacrismas") | Performer |
| 2007 | American Masters (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2007 | Married Life (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love") | Performer |
| 2007 | The World Unseen (performer: "Again") | Performer |
| 2006 | Emily Cries (Short) (performer: "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps") | Performer |
| 2006 | Infamous (performer: "Teacher's Pet") | Performer |
| 2006 | Lady in the Water (performer: "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 2005 | Six Feet Under (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2005 | Madman Muntz: American Maverick (Documentary) (performer: "Que Sera Sera") | Performer |
| 2005 | The Simpsons (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2003 | Mona Lisa Smile (performer: "Secret Love", "Tea for Two", "By the Light of the Silvery Moon") | Performer |
| 2002 | Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes) | Performer |
| 2001 | Crossing Jordan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 2001 | Tortilla Soup (performer: "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps") | Performer |
| 2000 | Rat (performer: "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)") | Performer |
| 1999 | The Man Who Drove with Mandela (Documentary) (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)") | Performer |
| 1998 | Antz (performer: "High Hopes") | Performer |
| 1997 | Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Here Comes Santa Claus" (excerpt)) | Performer |
| 1997 | Private Parts (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)") | Performer |
| 1996 | Sleepers (performer: "All Alone", "I'll Never Stop Loving You") | Performer |
| 1996 | Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) | Performer |
| 1995 | Grumpier Old Men (performer: "'S Wonderful") | Performer |
| 1995 | Three Wishes (performer: "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 1995 | The Celluloid Closet (Documentary) (performer: "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) (performer: "Shaking the Blues Away" (1927)) | Performer |
| 1993 | Heart and Souls (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)") | Performer |
| 1992 | The Long Day Closes (performer: "At Sundown") | Performer |
| 1992 | Strictly Ballroom ("Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" ("Quizas, Quizas, Quizas")) | Performer |
| 1984-1992 | Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes) | Performer |
| 1991 | Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Hey There") | Performer |
| 1991 | Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (TV Movie documentary) ("My Heart") | Performer |
| 1990 | Havana (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") | Performer |
| 1989 | The Epic of Detective Mandy: Book One - Satan Claus (TV Short) (performer: "Toyland") | Performer |
| 1989 | Gross Anatomy (performer: "If I Give My Heart To You") | Performer |
| 1989 | New Year's Day (performer: "It's a Most Unusual Day") | Performer |
| 1988 | Summertime Blues: Lemon Popsicle VIII (performer: "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)") | Performer |
| 1984 | Before Stonewall (Documentary) (performer: "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 1980 | Death and Transfiguration (Short) (performer: "It All Depends on You") | Performer |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (performer: "Ten Cents a Dance" (1930)) | Performer |
| 1974 | AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Cagney (TV Special documentary) (performer: "You Made Me Love You") | Performer |
| 1968-1970 | The Doris Day Show (TV Series) (performer - 5 episodes) | Performer |
| 1967 | Caprice (performer: "Caprice") | Performer |
| 1966 | The Glass Bottom Boat (performer: "The Glass Bottom Boat", "Soft as the Starlight", "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)") | Performer |
| 1965 | Do Not Disturb (performer: "Do Not Disturb", "Au Revoir Is Goodbye with a Smile") | Performer |
| 1964 | Send Me No Flowers ("Send Me No Flowers") | Performer |
| 1963 | Move Over, Darling (music: "Beautiful Dreamer (1862)") / (performer: "Move Over, Darling", "Beautiful Dreamer (1862)", "Twinkle Lullaby") | Performer |
| 1961 | Lover Come Back (performer: "Lover Come Back", "Should I Surrender") | Performer |
| 1960 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies (performer: "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", "ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS", "Que Sera Sera") | Performer |
| 1959 | Pillow Talk (performer: "Pillow Talk", "Roly Poly", "Possess Me") | Performer |
| 1958 | The Tunnel of Love (performer: "The Tunnel of Love", "Have Lips, Will Kiss in the Tunnel of Love", "Run Away, Skidaddle, Skidoo") | Performer |
| 1958 | Teacher's Pet (performer: "Teacher's Pet", "The Girl Who Invented Rock and Roll") | Performer |
| 1957 | The Pajama Game (performer: "I'm Not At All In Love", "Once-A-Year-Day!", "Small Talk", "There Once Was a Man", "Hey There" (reprise), "7 1/2 Cents") | Performer |
| 1956 | Julie (performer: "Julie") | Performer |
| 1956 | The Man Who Knew Too Much (performer: "Whatever Will Be" (1956), "We'll Love Again" (1956)) | Performer |
| 1955 | 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (Short documentary) (performer: "Stay On the Right Side Sister") | Performer |
| 1955 | Love Me or Leave Me (performer: "It All Depends On You", "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)", "Stay On the Right Side, Sister", "Everybody Loves My Baby (but My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me)", "Mean to Me", "Sam, the Old Accordion Man", "Shaking the Blues Away", "Ten Cents a Dance", "I'll Never Stop Loving You", "Never Look Back", "At Sundown (Love Is Calling Me Home)", "Love Me or Leave Me", "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)", "(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?", "I Cried for You", "My Blue Heaven") | Performer |
| 1954 | Young at Heart (performer: "Hold Me in Your Arms", "Ready, Willing and Able", "Till My Love Comes Back to Me", "There's a Rising Moon for Every Falling Star", "You, My Love", "Young at Heart") | Performer |
| 1954 | Lucky Me (performer: "I Wanna Sing Like an Angel", "I Speak to the Stars", "Love You Dearly", "High Hopes", "The Superstition Song", "Men", "Blue Bells of Broadway") | Performer |
| 1954 | Crime Wave (performer: "'S Wonderful") | Performer |
| 1953 | Calamity Jane (performer: "The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away)", "Introducing Henry Miller", "I Can Do Without You", "Just Blew in from the Windy City", "A Woman's Touch", "The Black Hills of Dakota", "Secret Love") | Performer |
| 1953 | So You Want a Television Set (Short) (performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon") | Performer |
| 1953 | By the Light of the Silvery Moon (lyrics: "Ain't We Got Fun") / (performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Your Eyes Have Told Me So", "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee", "Ain't We Got Fun", "If You Were the Only Girl in the World", "King Chanticleer", "I'll Forget You") | Performer |
| 1952 | April in Paris (performer: "April in Paris" (1932), "It Must Be Good", "I'm Gonna Ring the Bell Tonight", "That's What Makes Paris Paree", "I'm Going to Rock the Boat", "I Ask You", "The Place You Hold in My Heart", "I Know a Place") | Performer |
| 1952 | The Winning Team (performer: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Ol' Saint Nicholas") | Performer |
| 1951 | Starlift (performer: "You're Gonna Lose Your Gal", "'S Wonderful", "You Oughta Be in Pictures", "You Do Something to Me", "Lullaby of Broadway") | Performer |
| 1951 | I'll See You in My Dreams (performer: "I Wish I Had a Girl", "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)", "Nobody's Sweetheart", "My Buddy", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)", "Makin' Whoopee", "No, No, Nora", "I'll See You in My Dreams") | Performer |
| 1951 | On Moonlight Bay (performer: "Moonlight Bay", "Tell Me", "Love Ya", "Merry Christmas All", "Till We Meet Again") | Performer |
| 1951 | Lullaby of Broadway (performer: "Lullaby of Broadway", "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me", "Just One of Those Things", "Somebody Loves Me", "I Love the Way You Say Goodnight") | Performer |
| 1950 | The West Point Story ("By the Kissing Rock") / (performer: "Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Two Sheep", "The Military Polka") | Performer |
| 1950 | Tea for Two (performer: "I Know That You Know", "Tea for Two", "I Want to Be Happy", "Do, Do, Do", "Oh Me! Oh My!", "No, No, Nanette") | Performer |
| 1950 | Young Man with a Horn (performer: "The Very Thought of You", "Too Marvelous for Words", "I May Be Wrong (but I Think You're Wonderful)", "With a Song in My Heart") | Performer |
| 1949 | It's a Great Feeling (performer: "It's a Great Feeling", "At the Cafe Rendezvous", "That Was a Big Fat Lie", "There's Nothing Rougher than Love", "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart") | Performer |
| 1949 | My Dream Is Yours (performer: "Cuttin' Capers", "Freddie, Get Ready", " (You May Not Be an Angel, but) I'll String Along With You", "Love Finds a Way", "My Dream Is Yours", "Someone Like You", "Tic, Tic, Tic", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Nagasaki", "With Plenty of Money and You") | Performer |
| 1948 | Romance on the High Seas (performer: "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon (and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea)", "It's Magic", "It's You or No One", "I'm in Love", "She's a Latin from Manhattan") | Performer |