As she releases a new album, aged 87, even Doris Day is baffled by her squeaky-clean image.

Her glittering singing career included timeless classics like Whip Crack Away, Qué Será Será and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps. On screen, the wholesome, girl-next-door never failed to find love. Off screen, she could not have had less luck: she married four times. One of them beat her and another one robbed her.

Every Girl's Dream (1966; short). The Doris Day Show (1968-1973; 128 episodes) Golden Globe nomination. The Merv Griffin Show (1970; 1 episode). The Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff Special (1971; TV special). The Pet Set (1971; 1 episode). The Merv Griffin Show (1973; 1 episode). Kaufman, David (2008). Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door. New York: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-905264-30-8.

Doris Day, who will be best remembered as the blonde, helmet-haired, th-him star of 1950s and ’60s romantic comedies with magnificent animated title sequences, hadn’t Brando’s ambition or depth, but she could hold an audience as well as anyone. In 1975’s Doris Day: Her Own Story, a collaborative tell-all written by A. E. Hotchner, Jack Lemmon calls her a method actress even though she never went to the Actors Studio or studied Stanislavsky, and Rock Hudson – the Tracy to Day’s Hepburn, at least on screen – calls her an Actors Studio all by herself.

You're My Thrill was Doris Day's first LP album, issued on August 1, 1949 by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6071, a 10" LP. At the same time, Columbia issued it as an album set of 78 rpm records as C-189. One of the tracks, "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered", was also issued as a single (Columbia catalog number 38698, 7" LP 1-480), reaching on the Billboard chart in 1950.

She embodied the "girl next door" even in her 40s, which is probably why her films with Rock Hudson were so successful. A scene from 1959's Pillow Talk shows a split screen with Day and Hudson in their separate bathtubs, only it looks like they're in the same one - with their feet touching. Kind of risqué for 1959. That was Day at the height of her film success, but her career began as a big band "girl singer," and with Les Brown's big band she had one of the biggest hits of World War II: "A Sentimental Journey. For many GIs, Doris Day represented.

From the perky girl next door in the 1950s to the woman next door in 1960s sex comedies, Ms. Day was the most popular film actress since Shirley Temple. Doris Day, the freckle-faced movie actress whose irrepressible personality and golden voice made her America’s top box-office star in the early 1960s, died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, Calif. She was 97. The Doris Day Animal Foundation announced her death. Ms. Day began her career as a big-band vocalist, and she was successful almost from the start: One of her first records, Sentimental Journey, released in 1945, sold more than a million copies, and she went on to have numerous other hits.

Girl Next Door (Girl Next Door album). Girl Next Door is the first album from Girl Next Door released on December 24, 2008. Both versions had a first press which included a slipcase and one of two photobooks. For the first time in the world of music, all the songs included in this album are tie-up to the media such as drama series, television shows, or commercials.

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