Doris Day

Location: Act II, P. 101, "Without Love"
Reference: PENNY: "Life is Doris Day at The Apollo"

Doris Day is a singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and enjoyed a long and healthy career. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe and a Grammy, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female). Her public image was squeaky clean, optimistic and wholesome. She was paired with such top stars as Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Clark Gable. Her most famous onscreen pairing was with Rock Hudson, with whom she starred in a series of successful romantic comedies in the early 1960s, such as 1959's Pillow Talk...


In Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Day sang "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and became her signature song.

After Doris' retirement from showbiz, she became a tireless animal rights activist. In 1956, while in Morocco filming Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" with fellow animal lover Jimmy Stewart, she surprised everyone and said she wouldn't work unless the emaciated animals on or near the set received proper care. Responding to Doris's concerns, the production company promptly set up a feeding station for the goats, lambs, horses, cows, dogs, cats, burros and other animals. Doris, of course, supervised the care and feeding and was happy with the results and finished the movie. She founded several animal welfare organizations, including Actors and Others for Animals, the Doris Day Pet Foundation, and the Doris Day Animal League.

SOURCES:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day
http://www.dorisday.com
http://www.ddal.org