Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper “I love you”
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
Say “Night-ie night” and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you’ll miss me
While I’m alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I’m longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I’m longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
About Doris Day
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff became one of America’s most beloved actresses on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was born to Alma Sophia (Welz) and William Joseph Kappelhoff. There were three generations of German immigrants in her family. A few years before she was born, Richard, who was a few years younger than her, died, and Paul, who was a few years older.
The divorce of her parents occurred when she was a child, so she lived with her mother until the age of 13. In her childhood, Doris loved to dance. She won $500 in a local talent contest when she formed a dance act with a boy named Jerry Doherty. To test the waters, she and Jerry visited Hollywood. With the belief that they could succeed in Hollywood, they returned to Cincinnati with the intention of packing and moving permanently. She was tragically injured in a car crash the night before she was to move to Hollywood, which ended her hopes of pursuing a career as a dancer because she was hit by a train the night before she was to move to Hollywood.
Life and Career
At 17, she began touring with Les Brown Band, a new vocation that she had found after taking singing lessons. The trombonist Al Jorden was the first person she met and she married him in 1941. During the course of their marriage, Jorden was prone to violence and they divorced within two years of their son’s birth. Doris married George Weidler in 1946, but this marriage did not last long. She took a screen test at Warner Bros. as a result of being approached by her agent. The executives there liked what they saw in her and signed her to a contract (she is often confused with another actress named Doris Day who appeared in mainly B westerns in the 1930s and 1940s and was for a long time considered to be the first actress with a B Western credit).
Romance on the High Seas, released in 1948, was her first starring movie role. Her next two films were My Dream Is Yours (1949) and It’s a Great Feeling (1949), both of which were produced by her in the following year. Her beautiful face, terrific singing voice, and bubbly personality won her a great deal of attention, and she gave outstanding performances in the movies she made (as well as several hit records) that captured the hearts of the audiences. A total of three films were made by her for Warner Bros. in 1950 and five more were made by her in 1951. As a result, she met and married Martin Melcher, who adopted her young son Terry, who later turned out to be an accomplished record producer named Terry Melcher.
As a leading lady, Doris played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), which was a major hit, and she went on to star in several more films throughout the 1950s and 1960s including Lucky Me (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Pillow Talk (1959), probably her most well-known film. After starting out the decade with a hit, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960), she began to slow down her filmmaking pace in the 1960s, even though she started off the decade with one of her best films.
There was a death in the family in 1958. As well as handling her career, her husband also made deals for her in films that she had no interest in, which led to a bout of exhaustion, as she was forced to star in movies that she did not care about. I had no doubt that the 1960s wouldn’t be another busy decade like the one before it. During that decade, she didn’t make as many movies as she did in the previous decade, but the ones she did make were highly successful as well: Do Not Disturb (1965), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out (1970). With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) and With Six You Get Apple Pie (1968). There was a tragic loss in the family when Martin Melcher passed away in 1968, and Doris did not make another film, but Melcher had signed her to do her own television series, The Doris Day Show (1968), which she starred in. Her show, like her movies, was very successful and lasted until 1973 when it was no longer broadcast. There was a period after the show went off the air when she made only occasional appearances on TV after it ended.