Biography doris day
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Over her 97 years, Doris Day, who died May 13th of complications from pneumonia, was both revered and reviled for the cornflower-blue eyes and cornsilk blonde hair that reflected her Middle-American roots.
It would be an understatement to say that across the board, she struck a profound chord.
Novelist John Updike, a confessed admirer of the actress-singer, wrote the 1996 In the Beauty of the Lilies featuring the Day-inspired actress Alma DeMott as a symbol of an America that has lost its faith but finds something like it at the movies.
Biography doris day
Pauline Kael, not a fan, dismissed her in the 1960s as a “middle-aged American girl.” For Sarah Vaughan, Day was a favorite singer, while for James Baldwin, she was the quintessence of oblivious white America.
The teenage Big Band singer who became America’s top movie star from 1960 to 1965 was many things.
Her much-vaunted wholesomeness was not one of them. Those who looked as well as listened knew she was more spice than sugar.
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