an insight repeated in almost every obit that marked his 2010 death. “At every love-in across the country people were smoking grass and dropping LSD, while audiences were still watching Doris Day and Rock Hudson.”
InPillow Talk, released in 1959 and her first of three films with Rock Hudson, she proudly caught up with what she called “the contemporary in me.” Her 1976 tell-all book,Doris Day: Her Own Story, chronicled her money troubles and three failed marriages, contrasting with the happy public...
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922)[1] is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journ
Day essentially retired in the 1980s without ever winning an Academy Award. (Her only nomination came forPillow Talk; she lost to Simone Signoret forRoom at the Top.) But her great movies, particularly the ones with Rock Hudson, have remained favorites for generations, and her renditions of ...