Day, Doris

Doris Day Singer and film actress Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 3, 1922). Day was already performing as a dancer around her hometown as a young teenager, partnering with local dancer Jerry Dougherty. However, an automobile accident in 1937 sidelined her dance career, and she decided to take up singing. She first sang with Barney Rapp and His New Englanders; it was Rapp who gave her the surname “Day,” inspired by the 1938 hit “Day After Day.” She then moved to Bob…