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Doris Day: Academy Award
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The top-grossing female box-office star of all time, Doris Day, will be among eight singing stars awarded a lifetime achievement Grammy from the recording industry this year. She joins luminaries including Cab Calloway of Blues Brothers fame, country banjo picker Earl Scruggs, Robbie Robertson of The Band and and Burt Bacharach among this year's honorees.
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Day reunited with David Butler for CALAMITY JANE (1953), like LULLABY, photographed in lush Technicolor. It's a raucous musical comedy set in the Old West with Day as the titular gunslinger and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok, and the two stars make an energetic pair. Doris cited the film many times as her personal favorite, and while it's certainly not the best of her 40 features, it's typically entertaining. The songs are by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, and she sings “Just Blew in from the Windy City” and the ballad “Secret Love,” which became a huge hit and won the Academy Award for Best Song. Director Butler worked with Doris Day when she first started through her emergence as a major star, and had this to say in David Butler: A Directors Guild of America Oral History by Irene Kahn Atkins (Scarecrow Press, 1993): “Doris Day was a natural actress … Her singing was always great. She was so vivacious, and ... one of the only actresses who could play a scene and cry at the drop of a hat.”
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These honorary statuettes routinely are handed out to the likes of Ralph Bellamy and Mickey Rooney; it would not defile the academy to give one to Doris Day. Nor would it unduly discomfit the boomers to finally make their peace with the '50s, by reconciling with their parents' favorite female star. Bring back the queen, if only for a day.
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