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Doris Day, Hollywood actress and singer, dies aged 97


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48257670

The singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).

Her screen partnership with Rock Hudson was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 60s.

Born Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, 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 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.

Her films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.

But she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.

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Obituary: Doris Day, America's archetypal girl next door https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13202284

Her father, who worked as a music teacher, left his wife for another woman when Doris was 12. The future star was brought up by her mother.

She attended dance classes from an early age and, by the time she entered her teens, was performing regularly with her dance partner, Jerry Doherty, winning prizes at local pageants.

The pair had dreams of trying their luck in Hollywood but, the night before they were due to depart, Day's car was hit by a train. One of her legs was badly broken; her dancing career in ruins.

It took months to recove. She passed the time singing along to the radio and, as she put it, "discovered a talent I didn't know I had". She was particularly enamoured with the sound of Ella Fitzgerald.

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Doris Day: Big band star https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48255755

Half dozen songs on youtube, starting with Sentimental Journey when she was 20.

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