Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 or 1924) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist.
Day began her career as a big band singer in 1939, and is well known for her string of romantic comedies with leading man Rock Hudson including 'Pillow Talk' and 'Lover Come Back' in the early 1960s. Her popularity began to rise after her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey", in 1945. After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, Day started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which remained her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967 and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne and by Al Levy, her agent at the time, she auditioned for film director Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast as the female lead in Romance on the High Seas.
Over the course of her career, Day appeared in 39 films. She was ranked the biggest box-office star, the only woman appearing on that list in the era, for four years (1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964), ranking in the top 10 for ten years (1951–52, and 1959–66). She became the top-ranking female box-office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers (male and female), as of 2012. Day received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards (World Film Favorite), and received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. In 1989, she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. She made her last film in 1968.
Doris Elinor Hermitage Day (1873, Abbeycwmhir, Powys, Great Britain – 1966, East London, South Africa) was a British archer. She competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
Day competed at the 1908 Games in the only archery event open to women, the double National round. She took 16th place in the event with 483 points.
"Doris Day" is a song from 1982 by Dutch band Doe Maar. It was the title-track off their third album Doris Day en Andere Stukken and became their first top 10-hit.
Bass-player Henny Vrienten, lead-vocalist alongside pianist Ernst Jansz, wrote "Doris Day" as a complaint about TV-boredom (which includes the screening of a Doris Day-movie) best tackled by pressing the off-button and going out. The original lyrics also mentioned movie-expert Simon van Collem, but this was altered to "ein Wiener Operette" when he appeared to be the father of the band's new drummer Rene (1961).
"Doris Day" catapulted the otherwise thirtysomething Doe Maar into superstardom, but overexposure and creative exhaustion would split them up two years later. Vrienten, who went on to write TV- and movie-soundtracks, told Music Maker-magazine in 1985: "You can flush 'Doris Day' down the toilet anytime you like; it's the worst song I ever wrote. Rhyming for rhyming's sake, and stuff. And the worst thing of all is that it drew full crowd-participation every night".
"Secret Love" is a Pop song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Calamity Jane the 1953 movie musical in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role. Ranked as a #1 hit for Day on both the Billboard and Cash Box, the song also afforded Day a #1 hit in the UK. "Secret Love" has subsequently been recorded by a wide range of artists, becoming a C&W hit firstly for Slim Whitman and later for Freddy Fender, with the song also becoming an R&B hit for Billy Stewart whose version also reached the Top 40 as did Freddy Fender's. In the UK "Secret Love" would become the career record of Kathy Kirby via her 1963 remake of the song. The melody is based on the opening theme of Schubert's A-major piano sonata D.664.
Doris Day first heard "Secret Love" when its co-writer Sammy Fain visited the singer's home and played it for her, Day being so moved by the song that she'd recall her reaction as being: "I just about fell apart". Day recorded the song 5 August 1953 in a session at the Warner Bros. Recording Studio (Burbank) overseen by Warner Bros. musical director Ray Heindorf. The day of the recording session for "Secret Love" Day had done vocal exercises at her home, then about noon - the session being scheduled for 1 pm - had set out on her bicycle to the studio. Heindorf had rehearsed the studio orchestra prior to Day's reaching the studio: upon her arrival Heindorf suggested Day do a practice run-through with the orchestra prior to recording any takes, but acquiesced to Day's request that her first performance with the orchestra be recorded. Day - "When I got there I sang the song with the orchestra for the first time...That was the first and only take we did" - "When I finished Ray called me into the sound booth grinning from ear to ear and said: 'That's it. You're never going to do it better' "
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"Secret Love" is the first single from Stevie Nicks' seventh studio album In Your Dreams released on May 3, 2011. It is her first original single in ten years. "Secret Love" was released on January 13, 2011 via digital download.
Nicks originally wrote the song in 1976 and recorded a demo for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours, but it did not make the cut for the album.
The music video was directed by David A. Stewart, who produced the In Your Dreams album, and filmed in Nicks' house and backyard. Nicks' goddaughter Kelly appears in the video wearing a vintage dress that Nicks wore on stage in 1976. According to Nicks, Kelly portrays the young Stevie Nicks blending with the soul of Nicks' 62-year-old self.
Secret Love (Hangul: 비밀애; RR: Bimilae) is a 2010 South Korean film starring Yoo Ji-tae and Yoon Jin-seo, who previously worked together in Oldboy.
Only two months after their storybook marriage, beautiful young Yeon-yi (Yoon Jin-seo) is suffering through the repercussions of a car crash that’s put her handsome new husband Jin-woo (Yoo Ji-tae) into a deep coma. She finds herself waiting at the airport for her husband’s brother Jin-ho, but, never having previously met, Yeon-yi is shocked to discover that he and Jin-woo are identical twins. Initially cold toward each other, the two soon fall in love. The situation grows more complicated when Jin-woo suddenly awakens from his coma.