Farewell to a Hollywood legend: The American actress died at the age of 97 years. In the early 1960s, Doris was one Day to be the most popular and most commercially successful movie stars.
“Surrounded by friends” succumbed to Doris Day on Monday, of pneumonia, such as your Foundation in Los Angeles announced. It was in view of her age “in excellent physical condition,” reads the official statement. But recently, they’ve moved to a “severe lung infection, which led to her death”.
Day celebrated their biggest films in the early sixties, as a singer (“Que sera, sera”), it was successful. Your romantic comedies like “pillow talk” with Rock Hudson, “A touch of mink” opposite Cary Grant, or “What is it that drives this woman is everything” and “too much in bed” with James Garner cemented her Image as a demure “clean woman”. This reputation ultimately led to her film career remained long in the memory, but in fact lasted only a few years.
Scene from “pillow talk” from 1959 with Doris Day and Rock Hudson
For decades, had not shown himself to-Day in Public. On your 97. Birthday the beginning of April that it was Protocol to miss their 1985 deceased friend and colleague Rock Hudson. Even 60 years after the Premiere of the joint success of the movie “pillow talk” think you will still enjoy the shooting, said Day in one of her rare Interviews to the “Hollywood Reporter”. “I had so much fun working with my friend, Rock. We have laughed through the three movies, and have remained very good friends. I miss him.” Hudson died of the consequences of a HIV-infection.
Day, the four of divorced marriages had behind, last mainly for your Foundation for the protection of animals. On 3. April, 1922, she was Doris Kappelhoff in Ohio, was born, her grandparents were immigrants from Germany.
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