campp:
My Mom’s uncle always claimed he hid cash in his Doris Day LPs.
When he died, we checked every LP. Nada.
Guess it just wasn’t your day.
I remember when Everybody Loves a Lover came out (1958?), with both parts of the duet sung by her. Although I knew how it was done, technically, such electronic wizardry was uncommon and performers took notice of this newfangled recording stuff that did things you couldn’t do live, and with high fidelity. Recording had come of age, and was about to race past live music, in spite of what the union said.
Chefguy:
I was hopelessly enamored of her when I was a kid. That fresh, freckly face was irresistible. I read a biography of her some years ago. She apparently was sick of that goody image and longed to make a naughty movie, but was convinced not to do so.
Famously, she was offered the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate:
…Day remained one of the top box-office stars, male or female, in the US throughout the 60s. She was also one of the highest-paid. However, in her late films The Ballad of Josie (1967), Caprice (1967) and, finally, With Six You Get Eggroll (1968), she failed to find roles that suited her age. It seems a pity that she refused Mike Nichols’s offer to play the seductive Mrs Robinson in The Graduate (1967), a plum role that went to Anne Bancroft. Day wrote: “I could not see myself rolling around in the sheets with a young man half my age whom I’d seduced. I realised it was an effective part, but it offended my sense of values.” …
Apparently she did want to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, but felt that particular role was a bridge too far.
I am never forget when she played starring role of hypotenuse in great Russian film “The Eternal Triangle. “
…actually, that’s my main frame of reference for her. Hmm.