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アメリカ合衆国の女優・歌手ドリス・デイ (死去)

アメリカ合衆国の女優・歌手ドリス・デイ (死去)

2019年05月18日(土) 0:05
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アメリカ合衆国の女優・歌手ドリス・デイ (死去)

ドリス・デイ（英語: Doris Day, 1922年4月3日 – 2019年5月13日）は、アメリカ合衆国の女優・歌手。オハイオ州シンシナティ出身。本名はDoris Mary Ann Kappelhoff（ドリス・メアリー・アン・フォン・カッペルホフ）。ドイツ系。 2019年5月13日、カリフォルニア州の自宅で死去。97歳没。 (ドリス・デイ- Wikipedia)

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording “Sentimental Journey” (1945). After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. Day’s film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the ones she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973). Day was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award. She was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Death / Day died on May 13, 2019, after contracting pneumonia. Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation. (Doris Day – Wikipedia)

The following is a complete discography for American singer and actress Doris Day. Day’s entertainment career spanned almost 50 years. She started her career as a big band singer in 1939, and gained popularity with her first hit recording, “Sentimental Journey” in 1945. In her solo career she recorded more than 650 recordings on the Columbia Records label from 1947 to 1967. She was one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. (Doris Day discography – Wikipedia)

The filmography of American actress Doris Day consists of 39 feature films released between 1948 and 1968. When her film career ended, Day turned to television with her situation comedy The Doris Day Show (1968–1973), which ran for five seasons and 128 episodes, and made several other television appearances throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Due to her love of animals, Day launched another TV series, Doris Day’s Best Friends (1985–1986), which ran for 26 episodes. She was an honoree at The 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008 and was last seen in archive footage in a 2009 documentary What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar. (Doris Day filmography – Wikipedia)