Doris Day Net Worth

Doris Day's Quotes

• The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!". But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.
• I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
• Learning a part was like acting out the lyrics of a song.

Interesting Facts about Doris Day

1. She and her son Terry Melcher (along with a partner) co-own the Cypress Inn in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, a small "Hotel California-esque" inn built in a beautiful Mediterranean motif.
2. According to her autobiography, she got the nickname Clara Bixby when Billy De Wolfe told her, on the set of Tea for Two (1950), that she didn't look like a "Doris Day", but more like a "Clara Bixby", To this day, that remains her nickname among a close circle of old friends, such as Van Johnson.
3. Rock Hudson called her "Eunice" because he said that whenever he thought of her as Eunice, it made him laugh.
4. She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), which went to Anne Bancroft.
5. Is referenced in the song "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by pop band Wham!, a single that hit Billboard's #1 in 1984.
6. When her husband and manager of 17 years, Martin Melcher, died suddenly in April 1968, she professed not to have known that he had negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal with CBS to launch The Doris Day Show (1968) the following fall. After an abbreviated period of mourning, she went ahead with the series, which ran successfully for five seasons.
7. It was during the location filming of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) when she saw how camels, goats and other "animal extras" in a marketplace scene were being treated that began her lifelong commitment to preventing animal abuse.
8. Is referenced in the 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel.
9. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 133-134. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
10. In June 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush. She did not attend the White House award ceremony because of her intense fear of flying.
11. Is referenced in the 1970 song "Dig It" by The Beatles.
12. Is referenced in the 1985 song "Wrap Her Up" by Elton John.
13. In order to make a political statement regarding the platform of the Canadian Alliance Party, in 2000 Canadian satirist Rick Mercer launched an attempt to hold a national referendum on the question of whether or not Stockwell Day should be forced to change his first name to "Doris". Within days, he had the required number of signatures under the Alliance Parties current platform to launch a federal referendum. According to her publicist, Doris was amused by this.
14. Was named the top box-office star of 1963 by the Motion Picture Herald, based on an annual poll of exhibitors as to the drawing power of movie stars at the box-office, conducted by Quigley Publications.
15. Her son Terry Melcher had rented a house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Bel Air, CA, where Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered by the Charles Manson "Family". On March 23, 1969, Charles Manson had visited the house looking for Melcher, a music producer and composer who had worked with The Beach Boys, Bobby Darin and The Byrds. The house was now sub-leased by Tate, and her photographer told Manson to leave by "the back alley", possibly giving Manson a motive for the later attack. Melcher had auditioned Manson for a recording contract but rejected him, and there was a rumor after the murders that Manson had intended to send a message to Melcher, a theory that police later discounted.
16. In 2005 "Premiere" magazine ranked her as #24 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.
17. Is referenced in the song "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion.
18. Reportedly did not like profanity. As a recording artist, she would require anyone who swore to put a quarter in a "swear jar". In addition, she does not allow her songs to be used in movies that contain swear words.
19. Has often cited Calamity Jane (1953) as her personal favorite of the 39 movies she appeared in, and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)--which she referred to as "an "alleged comedy"--as her least favorite.
20. Her mother named her after her favorite silent film star, Doris Kenyon. By coincidence, in the mid-'70s when Day wrote her autobiography, Kenyon was her neighbor on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, CA.