Where is doris day today 2011

People could sing it. They could sing it to their children. What was it like singing with a big band?

DD: It feels good. They want to say hello to you. RF: Did the band kid around with you a lot? DD: I had a great time. The guys were so nice to me. They looked after me and helped me, they took all my baggage. They were all like my brothers. RF: Was it a big change for you when you went solo? I opened it. My mother was with me and my little baby. It was something so new for me. I thought, what am I doing? I was so used to having the guys behind me. But it turned out to be really nice.

The people kept coming back! I was surprised! A lot of the women were the Vogue types, models. They were all dressed up like crazy. They would say, Come on over and have a drink. I would go back to my apartment between shows. RF: You were not a drinker?

How did you avoid it? DD: Easy. No, no no! RF: Tell me about your co-stars. What was Jimmy Cagney like? DD: I loved him. He as a wonderful person, just adorable.

Oh he was nasty! RF: Tony Randall? DD: He was so superb, so funny. He was always in New York after that. I just loved him. Did we ever [have fun]. We laughed. RF: Cary Grant? DD: I enjoyed Cary, He was very different. Very nice. I think he went outside with that thing you put under your chin, for the sun. All the men hated makeup.

I used to eating in my trailer. RF: Who did you hang around with? Rock Hudson? She requested that no memorial services be held and no grave marker erected.

Over time, she became more than a name above the title. Day herself was no Doris Day, by choice and by hard luck. Day received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in The same year, she received a lifetime achievement honor from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Born to a music teacher and a housewife in Cincinnati, Day dreamed of a dance career but at age 12 broke her leg badly when a car in which she was traveling was hit by a train. Listening to the radio while recuperating, she began singing along with Ella Fitzgerald, studying the singer and the subtleties of her voice.

Day began singing at a Cincinnati radio station, then a nightclub, then in New York. She gave birth to her son, Terry, in early Her second marriage also was short-lived.

Her Hollywood career began after she sang at a Hollywood party in Her screen partnership with Rock Hudson is one of the best-known in the history of romantic movies. It said she had been "in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia".

With heavy hearts, we share the news that Doris Day passed away peacefully this morning at her home in Carmel, Calif. She was Born Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April , Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.

Instead she began her singing career at the age of Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune. But she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in , for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.

Honours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in and a lifetime achievement Grammy in Her last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in Day's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.

Day herself said her "Miss Chastity Belt" image was "more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played. Her life was certainly not as sunny.