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Flixster members are collaborating to create the definitive resource for Doris Day information on the Internet. We're adding all the images, info, and ideas that best tell this actor's unique story. To add your knowledge of Doris Day, just log in and click the EasyEdit button at the top of the wiki pages. (Click here for help.) |  Doris Day mini-bio: Born Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her mother gained custody. Doris liked to dance as a little girl, and she dreamed of being a ballerina. Sadly, an automobile accident ended her dream. She started singing lessons afterwards and sang with local bands, a new dream forming. Her first husband was Al Jordan, whom she married in 1941, but seperated after two years due to domestic violence. They bore a son, Terry Melcher. In 1946 she married George Weilder, but seperated after less than a yar. In 1948 she landed her first movie role as Georgia Garrett in "Romance on the High Seas". The next year she made two more films, "My Dream is Yours" and "It's a Great Feeling". Audiences took to her and she became well known on the movie screen and in the music industry, creating hit after hit. In 1951 she married Martin Melcher, who adopted her son. Her husband died in 1968, and she never made another film afterwards, but had been signed to do her own TV series, "The Doris Day Show".Today, she runs the Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California, which advocates homes and proper care of household pets. Other notible feature films she starred in are "Lucky Me" (1954), "The Man Who Kneww Too Much" (1956), and "Pillow Talk" (1959).
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