Celebrated US singer Doris Day, has announced a musical comeback at the age of 87. My Heart, set for a UK release on September 5, is Doris Day's first new album in nearly two decades.
Celebrated US singer Doris Day, has announced a musical comeback at the age of 87. My Heart, set for a UK release on September 5, is Doris Day's first new album in nearly two decades. The album is a compilation of previously unreleased recordings produced by Doris' son, Terry Melcher, prior to his death in 2004. Doris dedicates the album to her late son. Here's an insight into her life:
>>u00a0Doris never liked being called Doris Day. She thought it sounded like a stripper. Her nickname is Clara Bixby.
>>u00a0During her career, she did 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.
>>u00a0In 2009, Doris was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked 6th among the top 10 box office performers.
>>u00a0By the late 60s, the sexual revolution in films took place. Times changed, but Doris' films did not. Critics dubbed her as "the world's oldest virgin".
>>u00a0There is an annual Doris Day convention held in Oxford.
>>u00a0She has a fear of flying that stemmed from tours with Bob Hope in the 1940s. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but Doris refused to attend the ceremony because of her phobia. She even turned down an honorary Academy Award and a Kennedy's Center Honor.
>>u00a0According to a magazine, Doris measured 36-25-36 in 1953 and was an addictive chain smoker, smoking two-and-a-half pack a day until 1951.
>>u00a0First married at the age of 17, Doris married four times in all.
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