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Doris Day
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Doris was born to German Catholic parents in 1924. She had a brother
Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older than
her. Her father and mother split when she was about eight. At twelve, she
had a dance act with a boy called Jerry Doherty, with whom she went to
Hollywood after winning $500 in a talent contest -. On returning to Cincinatti,
aged fourteen, Doris was in a terrible car crash which almost ended her
dancing career.
At the age of sixteen, Doris discovered that she could sing and began
touring with the Les Brown Band, where she met Al Jorden, who she later
married. Al turned out to be a violent man and soon after the birth of
their son Terry in 1942, she initiated divorce proceedings. In 1946 she
met and married George Weidler, this liason lasted only eight months.
In 1948 she made her first film, "Romance On The High Seas". While
filming for Warner Brothers, she met Marty Melcher who became her agent
and later on her 27th birthday her husband. In 1958 her brother Paul died
and it was around this time that Marty started to make her sign to do films
that she did not want to do. This eventually led to Doris becoming ill
from nervous exhaustion. When Marty died in 1968, Doris was bankrupt and
owed thousands of dollars, but she was eventually awarded $22 millions
by the Courts. She married for the fourth time in 1976 and since her divorce
in 1980 has devoted her life to the protection of animals.
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