But she retained a fervent fan base for her cheery movies and for her TV show. [Read our Doris Day obituary ... essential to the success of the sex comedy genre she helped popularize in the ...

Actress Doris Day and actor Rock Hudson in a scene ... of clever and pretty tepid bedroom banter. "The movie represents a classic sex comedy from its era, which means, rather counterintuitively ...

This week marks the 100th birthday of silver screen legend Doris Day. The American actress and singer debuted as the female lead in the 1948 Warner Bros. musical romantic comedy Romance on the ...

which lead to some of the best Doris Day movies — and the rest, as they say, is history. Doris Day and Jerry Doherty, 1937Hulton Archive/Getty Images In the wake of her accident, Day spent her ...

Those movies, often derided today as examples ... after starring for five years on the hit CBS comedy “The Doris Day Show,” Ms. Day had been dismissed as a goody-two-shoes, the leader of ...

Weidler had reservations about becoming “Mr. Doris Day,” and he was certain of her future stardom. While continuing an active recording career at Columbia Records, Ms. Day flourished in movie ...

In the 1960 family comedy, “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” Doris Day plays a housewife ... A dozen years and a string of hit movie musicals later, Day recorded her defining song, “Whatever ...

Calamity Jane' (was) probably my favorite movie," Day said in the interview ... was actually a $400,000 debt. "The Doris Day show," a situation comedy, saved her. It ran for five years on ...

Music and movies Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, the daughter of a Cincinnati music teacher and a homemaker, the crystal-voiced pop soprano changed her name to Day when, as a teen, she began ...

Photo agency FOTO has unearthed rarely-seen photos of singer and actress Doris Day ... 70th anniversary of Day’s very first time onscreen — in the 1948 musical comedy Romance on the High ...

Doris Day, a singer and actress who personified wholesome American womanhood in the 1950s and 1960s — memorably as the chaste but chased after love interest in sex farces with Rock Hudson and ...