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Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door - Hardcover
From The Washington Post
Reviewed by Gerald Bartell
David Kaufman comes right to the point at the start of his life of Doris Day: "Day has been largely and unfairly neglected by cultural arbiters."
Day's career is not something to neglect lightly. After paying her dues as a big band singer, the former Doris Kappelhoff scored big in a series of pleasant but innocuous Warner Bros. musicals: "Romance on the High Seas" (1948), "My Dream is Yours" (1949), "It's a Great Feeling" (1949). Audiences warmed to this fresh-faced, smiling girl who sang in clear, soothing tones. With more complex roles and the push of Martin Melcher, her aggressive husband-manager, Day climbed higher. She played masochistic real-life singer Ruth Etting in "Love Me or Leave Me " (1955), trembled as the mother of a kidnapped son in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), and wowed 'em singing and dancing in "The Pajama Game" (1957). Then came a series of glossy comedies, including "Teacher's Pet" (1958), "Pillow Talk" (1959) and "Lover Come Back" (1962). For 10 years, Day reigned as Hollywood's number-one female box-office attraction.
But when Mike Nichols suggested that Day bare body and soul as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" (1967), she hung
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Doris Day and James Cagney in “Love Me or Leave Me”.
“I consider this to be her greatest performance, in her best picture.” – David Kaufman.
Q “If you had to publish the book today would you change anything?”
David Kaufman: “Even though I have made some corrections as the book has been reprinted – and still more for the paperback edition – there are some things I’ve learned since finishing the book, which I could not include, since it would have meant new pagination and redoing the Index – which is a much bigger job than most readers might imagine. One of them was that Les Paul approached Doris Day to be his lead vocalist, before deciding to go with Mary Ford, instead. (Indeed, the 93-year-old Les had me meet him backstage at the Iridium, here in New York, last summer, before he went on, to give me details.) There are some other things I’ve learned, which I can’t say, without first running them by lawyers. There’s also a lot more I can say about Barry Comden, now that he’s died.
I can also say, that had we decided to redo the Index, I would have cut back on the reviewers’ quotes of Day’s films. A number of people have pointed out that I’ve included far more than I should have, and I’ve come
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Doris Day: Rendering Untold Composition of depiction Girl Adhere to Door
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