Opinion: Doris Day was more complicated, and more forward-thinking, than she ever got credit for
Doris Day and her husband, Martin Melcher, right, at a baseball game in Los Angeles in 1962. By Tom Santopietro May 16 at 11:14 AM Tom Santopietro is the author of “Considering Doris Day.”
That worldwide success reached far beyond the wildest imaginings of Doris herself, and yet at the same time, brought forth a misreading of her film persona that persists to this day. In short, Oscar Levant may have wisecracked: “I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin,” but the truth reveals a far more complicated — and forward looking — film persona.
In reality, looking at these films some 60 years after their initial releases, one fact leaps out at even the most casual viewer: In these movies, Doris Day was always playing a successful career woman. Whether an interior decorator or advertising executive , she reveled in her job, sported a killer wardrobe, lived the high life in a football-stadium-size New York City apartment, and pointed the way forward for women who dreamed of their own careers.
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