Doris Day celebrated her 89th birthday earlier this week.
Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff was born on April 3, 1922. She is better known to her fans as Doris Day.
She hasn’t been seen on television except as a guest or in the movies since the Doris Day Show ended in 1973. For the last 38 years she has lived a low profile life.
When her third husband, Martin Melcher died in 1968, she claimed to not know he had planned a television series the Doris Day Show before his death.
She did the series and it was successful, which was the last time she appeared on television in a regular series of her own.
Her fear of flying probably was a huge factor in retiring, since she probably wouldn’t have consented to fly to movie or television locations.
She never liked anyone swearing around her and once required anyone that swore to place a quarter in the “swear box’ during a recording session.
Day surprisingly believes a couple should live together before being married as she stated in her 1975 autobiography:
[In her 1975 autobiography] You don’t really know a person until you live with him, not just sleep with him. Sex is not enough to sustain marriage. I have the unfortunate reputation of being Miss Goody Two-shoes, America’s Virgin, and all that, so I’m afraid it’s going to shock some people for me to say this, but I staunchly believe no two people should get married until they have lived together. The young people have it right. What a tragedy it is for a couple to get married, have a child, and in the process discover they are not suited for one another! If I had lived with Al Jorden for a few weeks, God knows I would never have married him. Nor would I have married George Weidler. But I was too young and too inexperienced to understand any of this. Now my heart was busted and I had lost my way.
She didn’t think much of Elizabeth Taylor’s penchant for wearing expensive jewelry saying it could have been better used:
[about Elizabeth Taylor's diamonds] When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
