It is said that the creation of the blonde and glossy Barbie was born thanks to the image of the great actress Doris Day. story of the famous Hollywood diva of the last century.
Who was Doris Day
Doris Day, born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff (Evanston, April 3, 1922 – Carmel-by-the-Sea, May 13, 2019), was an American singer and actress.
She grows up near Cincinnati in the state of Ohio with her siblings and parents German immigrants. After the separation of the parents approaches the world of dance, in particular at the tip-tap that he practices in tandem with Jery Doherty. Unfortunately, his desire to break through in this sector will never come true because of a leg accident which prevents it from continuing in this direction.
Instead, it approaches the world of singing, a passion already present in the family since his father has always taught music in a local choir. He starts taking private lessons and then ad perform on small local radios. She was called by Barney Rapp in his orchestra in 1939 and changed her name to one that was more catchy and suitable for advertising. After this project other collaborations follow including the one inLes Brown orchestra where he records “Sentimental Journey”.
With this song he climbs the positions of the Billboard Hot 100 and gets the Grammy Hall of Fame and does a tour throughout the United States.
The great cinematic success of Doris Day
In 1947 during a party at Jule Styne’s house she hits director Michael Curtiz with an exceptional performance and this gives her a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. He made his debut in the cinema with the 1948 musical comedy “Love under deck”, immediately reaching the public for its simplicity and naturalness. In addition to the continuous musical success, the cinematographic success is also added with the advent of the new decade.
In fact, it takes part in known films as “Chimere” alongside Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall or “The Broadway Lullaby” and “Old America”. Certainly his biggest project is called “Don’t shoot, kiss me!” directed by David Butler and co-starred with Howard Keel. In the film also features the song “Secret Love” which reaches the top position in the charts for several weeks and wins theOscar for best song.
The contract with Warner Bros is not renewed, but this moment does not also coincide with the end of his career. In the following years he actually plays some of the most successful roles of all its path. In fact, she was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock for his 1956 project entitled “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. This is followed by the great musical “The game of the pajamas”, the adaptation of the well-known Broadway hit.
Doris Day’s last years of fame
In 1958 another phase of great successes all under the same genre opens for Day: the comedy. In fact, he hangs part in the film “The bed tells” alongside Rock Hudson with whom he will also be paired in “Love, come back!” and in “Don’t send me flowers”. A long list of hit films in the following decades that he sees her sometimes in prepackaged roles, useful to keep popularity high, other times in parts that present her in a different way to the public.
With the passing of the years and the difficulty in often re-proposing the role of the self-deprecating mature woman, she dedicates herself to the novelty of television series with “The Doris Day Show” aired for about five years. He then decides to get away from the world of entertainment following personal vicissitudes.