Welcome
The actress and singer Doris Day is one of the few surviving stars of Hollywood’s golden age. She made her debut in show-business in 1939 and gave her final screen appearance in 1986 hosting her own TV chat show. Thereafter, she retired from the limelight to focus her attention on her two animal welfare organisations.
The “Discovering Doris” website enables you to do just that. You’ll find over 200 pages of information here about Ms. Day’s career as a singer and actress. Yes – that’s right folks everything from Ms. Day’s music career of over 600 songs, culminating in 28 original albums and 76 charting singles (30 of these were “Top 20″ American hit singles – many were also charted world-wide) to her work as an actress of 39 motion pictures, two television variety specials and 154 episodes of two television series.
Our hope is that by the time you finish exploring this website you will have an all-new understanding of Ms. Day:
- the GRAMMY award winning recording artist;
- the biggest selling International Female Recording Artist of the 1950s;
- the most successful American Female Movie Star of the late 1950s and early 1960s;
- the six times Golden Globe award winning actress;
- the Animal Welfare campaigner and friend to all our four-legged friends.
This website would also like to thank everyone who has supported it and crucially continued to visit it since the 30 May 1998. You are one of the main reasons why we continue developing this website and we hope you continue to enjoy discovering Doris as much as we have.
Love to you all,
The team at ‘Discovering Doris’
I LOVE DORIS DAY
dORIS IS MY IDOL…I love all her films and songs
Doris Day is my favourite singer/actress of all time. The musicals were fantastic “Calamity Jane”, all the moonlight films and my favourite “Love me or Leave me”. Doris starred in the sophisticated comedies which are now considered classics, with the late Rock Hudson…they were and are still hilarious. I also thought Doris was superb in Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” with James Stewart. Doris is a very successful animal rights activist and has used her celebrity for a wonderful cause. Her albums are still as popular today as they were in times gone by…because excellence is timeless.
i found a little catchy song from doris not so long ago but now ive lost it and cant find it on any album it had a lot of voice overs can anyone help id never heard it before
when i hear her voice, i just melt. all the stress just drains away.
I absolutly love this web site! Almost as much as I love Doris. Can’t wait for the new album and calendar. Can’t find dvds of Julie, Midnight Lace, Ballard of Josie, and Where were you when the lights went out? Can you help? Thanks, and keep all the news coming. F. Rethorn
I’m 73 and she STILL gives me goose bumps!
Just wanted to mention that I mention Doris in my Forbes.com blog “The Culture Mulcher.” Special topic is “Overrated or Underrated?” Guess which Doris is?
See it at: http://blogs.forbes.com/craigsilver/
Just read that there will be no oscar for Doris this year. There is no cause so bizzare and off the edge that the Hollywood establishment doesn’t support and embellish. And they won’t recognize what America is, at least was, and should be, about. Well as Frank use to say, “Bums”. Shame on them. She was, is, and will always be, a wonder in so many ways, and so very worthy of that statute called oscar.