Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1922), known by her stage name Doris Day, is an American actress and singer.
Singing and dancing and playing both comedic and dramatic roles, she became one of America's biggest box-office stars, making 39 movies before retiring from films in 1968. She has also recorded more than 650 songs. She is an Academy Award nominee, as well as a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner. In 1989, Day received the Cec...
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Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1922), known by her stage name Doris Day, is an American actress and singer.
Singing and dancing and playing both comedic and dramatic roles, she became one of America's biggest box-office stars, making 39 movies before retiring from films in 1968. She has also recorded more than 650 songs. She is an Academy Award nominee, as well as a Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner. In 1989, Day received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
She is currently the top-ranking female box-office star of all time, ranked 6th in the top ten of mostly male stars (the only other female on the list is Shirley Temple).
Doris Day was born in the Cincinnati, Ohio, neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia Welz (a housewife) and Wilhelm (later William) von Kappelhoff (a music teacher). All of her grandparents were German immigrants. Her parents' marriage failed due to her father's reported infidelity. Although the family was Roman...
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