| Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 12:08 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| Best wishes to the biggest female movie box-office star in film history, whose films included many musicals including Broadway's "The Pajama Game". Her performance as Broadway star Ruth Etting in "Love Me or Leave Me" is also among her best. She could do comedies, dramas, Hitchcock thrillers as well, plus she was a top recording star for many years. I think she might be one of the most beloved stars too; she is celebrating her birthday raising money for animals which has been her passion for many years. If only she had tried Broadway at some point! Certainly she was in the running for film musicals "South Pacific" and "The Sound of Music"; she would have been terrific in those and quite a few others. She might have pulled off "Hello, Dolly!" and perhaps maybe even have been in the ballpark for the difficult-to-cast "Mame". All the best, Doris! | |
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| Posted by: | robwargo 01:16 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - PlayWiz 12:08 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| You can wish her a happy birthday via her website www.dorisday.com. There's also a tribute concert to her on BBC Radio 2 on Friday, April 4, at 8 PM UK time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdh1b | |
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| Is she 90 or 92 years old today? | |
| Posted by: | BroadwayLocal 11:31 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - PlayWiz 12:08 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| She says 1924 but others say 1922? | |
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| re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | Dalmaniac 03:48 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - PlayWiz 12:08 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| I second that! Doris Day was performing in New York when Hollywood called. Her first wedding was in New York (none of her marriages could be considered a triumph!). From my research, she was petrified of live audiences and that's why concerts and Broadway were a no-no. Such a shame. Peter Filichia writes about the "Annie Get Your Gun" album she recorded with Robert Goulet on the Masterworks site....well worth a read. The biographical show I co-wrote with Melinda Schneider (not an impersonation show) returns to stages soon to celebrate Doris Day's important birthday. | |
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| re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 12:02 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - Dalmaniac 03:48 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| I wonder when she started to become afraid of live performance, since she started as a band singer which included lots of traveling on the road to one live concert after another. | |
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| Posted by: | bicoastal 07:10 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - PlayWiz 12:02 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
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| Apparently she always hated flying and never liked the strain of traveling for the band gigs. I find the same thing interesting about Streisand--both of them women whose careers were based on their live performances. Happily, Streisand has come back for the occasional live tour, but Doris Day never did. Our loss. I would have loved to have seen her on stage in anything! (My Dad saw her sing with Les Brown and became a lifelong fan of Ms. Day's after that.) | |
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| Posted by: | hitbycab 10:35 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - Dalmaniac 03:48 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| All the best!! Does anyone know why MIDNIGHT LACE which was based on a play has never been released on dvd? Besides wonderful movies, what a voice she has!! Won't even get into ridiculous Kennedy Centre rules and whatever is holding up that honorary Oscar??? plus every honorary award on the planet???? | |
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| Posted by: | MikeR 11:44 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - hitbycab 10:35 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| It's not just the Kennedy Center. No awards show (and that includes the Oscars) wants to give an award to someone they know won't be there to receive it. It's bad TV - and these things are primarily TV shows. | |
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| Posted by: | BrianJ 01:08 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - MikeR 11:44 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| I think it made fine TV when the Oscars allowed people to accept them via video feed or satellite hookup or whatever, like Mary Pickford, Satyajit Ray, Myrna Loy, etc. Since I of course have no inside knowledge, I have no idea whether they ever felt Day out about this but she was not interested in appearing on camera even from Carmel, or if at some point around the time Day got old enough to be a likely honoree the Academy had made a decision to discontinue allowing these remote acceptances for the elderly honorary award winners, or what. I guess since the institution of the separate evening for Governors' Awards, they now no longer care whether people appear at all at the Oscars to wave on camera for three seconds (judging from Angela Lansbury's non-attendance this year), as long as they'll attend the separate non-televised ceremony in the fall. Oh, well. I bow to no one in the fervency of my desire for Doris Day to be an Honorary Oscar winner, but if Doris never cared enough to hop on a plane or (if she's afraid to fly) into whatever cushily-appointed limo the Academy would have sent her to make the five-hour drive down to pick up the award, it clearly doesn't matter much to her, so I guess I should let it go! The Kennedy Center policy makes complete sense to me, though. It's already (often) dull enough to watch the legendary honoree's material performed by (usually) lesser talents; if you didn't even at least have the legend's reaction shots to intersperse, it would be completely useless. | |
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| Posted by: | Billhaven 04:04 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - BrianJ 01:08 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
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| As much as I think she deserves any and every honor bestowed on her, she is a wise woman to avoid a pressured public appearance. Perhaps she watched the public humiliation given to Kim Novak this year or when Kate Smith was paraded in front of the cameras for a "special Emmy" when she was old, wheelchair bound and a husk of her vigorous self. You mentioned Mary Pickford. That was a hideous travesty that her loving husband never should allowed. She looked to be a deluded old woman with a "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" fixation. Not the bold, funny and shrewd pioneer of film, she had been. Resist the temptation, Doris! Audiences are cruel and the internet lethal to anyone who looks their age or, in Novak's case tries to maintain the illusion of youth. Let us remember you as the great, ageless, kind and talented woman you were in your prime. | |
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| re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 05:57 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - Billhaven 04:04 pm EDT 04/03/14 |
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| Doris still maintains a presence by radio interviews and has done a voice-over for an upcoming day of her old tv shows on MeTV. Perhaps she will be at the birthday celebration/fundraiser for animals this weekend in Carmel, but I would imagine she's ok with local townies seeing her as she's part of the community. But, yeah, something very high profile like an awards ceremony would only open the floodgates of comparison to how she looked when she was younger and in her prime. Certainly Marlene Dietrich when she was interviewed for Maximilian Schell's film about her did not allow him to film her. I'm sure she didn't want her fans to see her when she was older. Doris has acknowledged her fans on her radio interviews when they've called in in recent years, plus she does have an active website. Again, all the best to Doris, and I'm sure millions of fans around the world wish her well, too! | |
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| re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | PlayWiz 11:22 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - hitbycab 10:35 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| If you go do TCM.com's main page you will see that they are selling "Midnight Lace". Doris just doesn't like to travel far from Carmel, unfortunately. But yeah, so many people would love to give her awards, which she so richly deserves. | |
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| re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! | |
| Posted by: | ianx73 11:22 am EDT 04/03/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - hitbycab 10:35 am EDT 04/03/14 |
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| Midnight Lace just came out on DVD and is available at the TCM Store online and Movies Unlimited | |
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