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Singer, actress, but also activist for the rights of animals, Doris Day died Monday, May 13 at the age of 97 years. The American star with blond hair platinum had played in forty films, including many musicals. Audited by critics, but beloved by the public, Doris Day had also shot for Alfred Hitchcock.
The fate of Doris Day was played one evening in October 1938. Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff, her real name, comes back from Hollywood when the car where she took place hits a train. She has several fractures in her leg. For the 16-year-old girl, the dream of a dancer is over.
During her convalescence, Doris Day listens to a lot of jazz. The blonde girl, native of Cincinnati, launches into the music hall. With his sensual voice, the success is dazzling in the 1940s. The title Sentimental Journey will symbolize the hopes of GIs returning after the 1945 victory.
After the war, cinema opens its doors. Doris Day has about forty films, often cataloged as vaudevilles, first among which Confidences sur l'pilliller , with Cary Grant and Rock Hudson, in 1959.
But her most outstanding role, Doris Day owes it to Alfred Hitchcock in The Man Who Knew Too Much , in 1956: she embodies a mother whose child is kidnapped by spies and it is she who interprets Who will, will be , Oscar-winning song.
At the turn of the 1970s Doris Day stops the cinema, the actress turns to television and animal advocacy. A cause for which she did not hesitate to call Ronald Reagan directly when the actor became president occupied the White House.