Doris Day and her husband, Martin Melcher, right, at a baseball game in Los Angeles in 1962. By Tom Santopietro May 16 at 11:14 AM Tom Santopietro is the author of “Considering Doris Day.”
That worldwide success reached far beyond the wildest imaginings of Doris herself, and yet at the same time, brought forth a misreading of her film persona that persists to this day. In short, Oscar Levant may have wisecracked: “I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin,” but the truth reveals a far more complicated — and forward looking — film persona.
In reality, looking at these films some 60 years after their initial releases, one fact leaps out at even the most casual viewer: In these movies, Doris Day was always playing a successful career woman. Whether an interior decorator or advertising executive , she reveled in her job, sported a killer wardrobe, lived the high life in a football-stadium-size New York City apartment, and pointed the way forward for women who dreamed of their own careers.
“During an era in which workplace opportunities for women were severely limited, she functioned as a role model through whom thousands of women worldwide lived vicariously.” 🙋🏻♀️and little girls. I loved those films when I was a kid. Made me realize I could have a career.
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Tom Jones sung it: “she’s a lady, oh oh oh a lady”
It's DIFFICULT to give credit to someone complicated....don't you think!!!
Doris Day was an intelligent and talented lady whom I don't think was a prude by any stretch of the imagination. She understood what the real world was about and had no problem voicing her opinions about it.😁
**WASHINGTON** ¿APOCO TE *FALTAN PELOTAS* PARA CONSEGUIRME, *MIS'666 URGENTES* DICEN *LOS CORONEROS* QUE SI TE *LLEVAS DE BIEN JUAN GABRIELOTE* CON LOS *BANCOS*
More of a Kate Smith fan myself..