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Doris Day: Years
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Doris embarked on The Doris Day Show, in the early 1950’s while simultaneously continuing with her filming. A host of other film stars made guest appearances throughout the run, many joining Doris in a duet when not particularly known for their own singing voice. The guest list was a cavalcade of Hollywood and Broadway stars as well as film producers and songwriters. Unique pieces of Hollywood history were captured, which now for the first time in over 50 years, can be heard again.
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There is so much to love about THE PAJAMA GAME (1957), not the least of which is Doris Day as Babe, head of the grievance committee at a pajama factory who falls in love with foreman John Raitt (father of Bonnie). The show by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross – and its follow-up DAMN YANKEES! – had revitalized the Broadway musical and the Adler –Ross team was flying high when Ross died from respiratory illness at the age of 29. To bring the show to the screen – with much of the original cast intact -- Broadway director George Abbott teamed with film director Stanley Donen, who had previously been partnered with Gene Kelly on the milestone musicals ON THE TOWN (1949), SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952), and IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER (1955) in addition to his own SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) and FUNNY FACE (1957). Add Bob Fosse's choreography and the result is one of the best musicals of the Fifties. Highlights include Day and Raitt's respective versions of “Hey There,” Fosse's brilliant “Steam Heat,” “Once a Year Day” and “Hernando's Hideaway,” Eddie Foy Jr. and Reta Shaw's tapdance in “I'll Never Be Jealous Again,” Doris and Raitt's “There Once Was a Man,” and Doris leading the chorus in “Seven-and-a-Half-Cents” … indeed all the Ross-Adler music and lyrics are just wonderful.
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Soon after her radio appearance, Day was approached by local bandleader Barney Rapp, leading the young songstress to adopt the moniker that would soon become a household name. Revealing her birth name to Rapp after auditioning with the song "Day By Day," Rapp jokingly suggested that her name was nice, though a little long for the theater's marquee. With her auditioning ballad becoming the inspiration for her stage persona, 14-year-old Day now had all the makings of a starlet ripe with potential. Discovered shortly after by big-band maestro Les Brown in 1940, Day toured briefly with his band, soon departing to accept the marriage proposal of sweetheart Al Jorden and pursue dreams of starting a family. Day's matrimonial happiness was short-lived... when Jorden's violent and jealous tendencies proved to be too much to take. Soon after the birth of their son in 1942, the couple divorced and Day rejoined Les Brown and his band, leading to the collaboration that would project the young singer into the heart of millions -- "Sentimental Journey."
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The fifth and final year of THE DORIS DAY finds Doris Martin (Day) continuing as a reporter for Today's World magazine, working with editor Cy Bennett (John Dehner) and secretary Jackie Parker (Jackie Joseph) but the outrageous situations are mostly gone. Doris finds her love life heating up with both Dr. Peter Lawrence (Peter Lawford) and political candidate Jonathan Rusk (Patrick O'Neal) while her home life is never dull thanks to fussy landlord Mr. Jarvis (Billy DeWolfe). Among the guest stars who appeared are Andy Griffith, Lee Meriwether, Ed Begley Jr., Julie Adams, Dick Van Patten, Sid Melton, Edward Andrews, Henry Jones and Bernie Kopell.
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Today, cities in the North and the South claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1866. Both Macon and Columbus, Ga., claim the title, as well as Richmond, Va. The village of Boalsburg, Pa., claims it began there two years earlier. A stone in a Carbondale, Ill., cemetery carries the statement that the first Decoration Day ceremony took place there on April 29, 1866. Carbondale was the wartime home of Gen. Logan. Approximately 25 places have been named in connection with the origin of Memorial Day, many of them in the South where most of the war dead were buried.
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Much has been written about Doris over the years. In fact every detail of her life has been well documented at one time or another. However, not much mention, if any, has been made of her one and only radio series, which was not only heard throughout America, but ... overseas.
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