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Day, Doris
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Day, Doris (1924– )

US film actor and singing star of the 1950s and early 1960s. She appeared in musicals and, often with Rock Hudson, coy sex comedies such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961).

She made several popular recordings, including ‘Sentimental Journey’, with the band of Les Brown 1940–47. From 1947 she gained great success as a solo artist. Her other films include Tea for Two (1950), Calamity Jane (1953), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).



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She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1924 as Doris von Kappelhoff and first made her name as a teenage singer, fending off the advances of musicians while touring in the big-band era.
 
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