DORIS!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE BRILL!!!!!!!

This page is a homage to Doris, but the pics will be on another page and this is just a few bits of gossip and stuff like that, nothing serious, even looking at what Mamie Van Doren had to say...Who is Mamie Van Doren?

Here is what Mamie Van Doren had to say about Doris in her book "Playing The Field"... "I had looked forward to meeting Doris Day. A mutual friend of ours, Charlotte Hunter, a dance coach from Universal, told me what a warm, friendly person Doris was. Doris had always been one of my favorite singers, with hits like "It's Magic". I also became a fan of her movies after seeing "Love Me Or Leave Me", in which she played opposite James Cagney. Nonetheless, our first meeting on the "Teacher's Pet" set was far from what I expected. Doris ignored me when we were introduced and proceeded to conduct herself like a spoiled star. George Seaton and Gable had to stoically bear her tantrums & disagreeable attitude.

Her dislike of me became most apparent when it was time to shoot reaction shots of Doris, Gable, and Gig Young watching a dance number I did while singing "The Girl Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll". Doris failed in take after take to smile radiantly while watching me dance. Finally Seaton called for my double to be positioned off-camera so that Doris could watch someone who could produce the desired reaction. Doris' cold attitude toward me never improved, and mercifully we saw little of each other during the film."

Maybe she had a problem with you Mamie, Like I said who is Mamie? atleast she fed you material for your book

Well I am going to cheer myself up looking at Doris' awards

1948 AA Nomination for Romance On The High Seas Best Film Score and Title Song "It's Magic"
1949 AA Nomination for Title Song "It's A Great Feeling"
1951 Photoplay Gold Medal Award as Best Actress for Lullaby of Broadway
1953 AA Award for Best Song "Secret Love"
1956 Columbia Gold Disc for over a million sales of "Que Sera, Sera" from The Man Who Man Who Knew Too Much
1958 AA Nomination to Fay & Michael Kanin for Teacher's Pet - Best Screenplay and Gig Young for Best Supporting Actor
1958 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Award with Tony Curtis as the World's Favourite Actress and Actor
1959 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy in It Happened to Jane
1959 AA Nomination for Best Actress in Pillow Talk
1959 Photoplay Gold Medal as Most Popular Actress of the Year
1959 Hollywood Press Association Nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy
1959 Theatre Owners of America Laurel Award with Rock Hudson as the year's Top Stars
1962 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Award with Rock Hudson as the Most Popular Stars In The World
1962 AA Nominations to Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster for That Touch of MinkBest Screenplay and to Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy and George Mile for Art Direction and Set Decoration
1962 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical
1962 Golden Globe Award as the World's Favourite Actress
1975 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame Nomination for Doris' recordings of "Sentimental Journey" with Les Brown's Band in 1945
1989 Golden Globe Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, presented by Clint Eastwood
1991 Lifetime Top Comedy Award with Jack Lemmon

interview with Doris Day from the January 1996 edition of OK! Magazine, I took some excerts, maybe out of context, perhaps unfairly out of context!!! but life is bitter sweet, well thats my excuse, plus I chopped out the bits I liked, this following excert is priceless and I empathise Doris I really do!

It's tempting to surmise that after the disappointments and betrayals she has endured, it's easier to love animals than people. `Well, I love my friends,' she says, `but I have been "bitten" by many people. I just think 'we're all here together, animals and people, and they have taught me such a lot; they are loyal and joyful and they are so grateful. Even if you holler at them, and I do, the dogs never get mad. I think people could learn from that.'

Now I think this next bit is a little extreme, but I am with you if it stops animal testing, maybe they could inject a few of those nasty virus in to convicts and find cures: after all you don't meet many serial killer hamsters! What have Hamsters done to be treated this way

she's writing letters to politicians, urging them to stop the testing of products on animals. Though her `handlers' often wish she wasn't quite as outspoken as she is, she has no hesitation in confirming that she believes the convicted killers crowding America's jails should be allowed to volunteer for product experiments instead of animals.

`I should think they'd want to do it, to give back to society what they have taken from it. I should think it would make them feel better. I would volunteer if I'd done something so horrendous like those people on death row. Anyway, it's stupid to test on animals. They are not like us.'

Did you realise that American scandal sheets question her sanity, I can't think why?

From time to time the American scandal sheets erroneously question her sanity and accuse her of behaving like a bag lady patrolling the streets of Carmel looking for strays. But perhaps the best proof that she is saner than most is the fact that she shows absolutely no need for the Hollywood limelight which some of her contemporaries appear to crave.

Let you into a secret I was feeling her sanity is a bit dubious when she wants to expriment on convicts, true most are probably scum. But what happens if one is innocent and it happens, well it does in England......I think this next bit is sweet, I don't agree with it but I do like her movies though....I also like modern ones..shoot me, just don't test cosmetics on me.

And she's proud, she says, of the Hollywood legacy she's left behind. `I particularly loved the comedies. I really enjoyed making those films, and I enjoy them better than some of the movies they're making today.

`I think those comedies were very moral. I think things stink now. I'm not interested in seeing people in bed having sex. I think it's just sick and I'd never do that even if I was 25 years old and my career depended on it,' says the squeaky-clean woman who was known in Hollywood as the `professional virgin'. One wit said of her: `I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin', and she was once dubbed `the only virgin who's been married four times'.

Thanks Doris that last excert shows why you turned the Graduate down, which is what the next section is about...

Doris Day wrote: "I was offered the part of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate but I could not see myself rolling around in the sheets with a young man half my age whom I'd seduced. I realized it was an effective part (Anne Bancroft won an Academy Award for it) but it offended my sense of values.

Of course, in the years since then, explicit sex has become commonplace on the screen - so commonplace that it is considered novel when a film appears without a few naked bodies thrashing about. Now I really don't put anybody else down for doing such scenes. To each his own. Many actors enjoy doing these turns, and obviously many people enjoy watching them. I don't, either doing or watching. I can't picture myself in bed with a man, all the crew around us, doing that which I consider so exciting and exalting when it is very personal and private. I am really appalled by some of the public exhibitions on the screen by good actors and actresses who certainly have the talent to convey the impact of what they are doing without showing us to the last detail of pubic hair and rosy nipple how they are doing it."
Doris Day, Her Own Story

The film is significant for several reasons, one, it is the only picture in which Doris Day dies, two, it dealt with a subject that was hard-hitting and raw, and three, Miss Day got the opportunity to work with her girlhood idol, the legendary Ginger Rogers and with the future President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

The important novelty about this film is that you saw people of colour walking down the street! This is something rarely seen in most forties and fifties films.

This film is significant because of the poster and believe me I have never seen it but I think I am deverstated by that fact and to think I was going to put a picture of Clam there

The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "A sombre but stirring and thought-provoking story, "Storm Warning" spotlights two new dramatic stars, Doris Day and Steve Cochran...

Darkly handsome Steve Cochran gives a crazed, swaggering performance as Hank. Ginger Rogers is good as Marsha and showed what years of acting before the camera was all about. Reagan did an adequate job as the investigator and Doris Day wavered between good and inept.

The direction by Stuart Heisler and the screenplay by Daniel Fuchs and Richard Brooks provided all that was needed to make this an exciting film. The supporting work by Hugh Sanders, Lloyd Gough and Ned Glass was strong. Praise must also go to the cinematography by Carl Guthrie whose photography helped sustain the film noir quality that was prevalent in so many Warner films.
Ralph McKnight, New York, March 2002

The picture has a film noir quality, for it is dark, marose and very disturbing.

...........And not out on DVD!!! You have got to be joking, with a poster like this someone must put it on video. Come on Warner get a grip..........

AM I NEVER GOING TO GET TO SEE THIS CLASSIC?