Doris Day Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.

Trivia

In 2004, Doris was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Doris is an Aries.

Doris' birthstone is the diamond.

Her first husband, Al Jordan, committed suicide after thay divorced.

In 2004 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom but refused to attend the ceremony because of a fear of flying. She has turned down an honorary Academy Award and a Kennedy's Center Honor for similar reasons.

Doris was named after her mother's favorite movie star - Doris Kenyon.

She 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.

Doris' third husband Marty adopted her son Terry from her first marriage.

During the filming of Midnight Lace, one scene was traumatic for her to film as it reminded her of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband Al Jordan.

Doris Day had a son named Terry who died in 2005

Due to manager/husband overspending of her money, when he died she was bankrupt and owed a lot of money. However, before he died, he made a deal that Doris was unaware of, a multimillion deal with CBS to do The Doris Day Show.

She was voted the 24th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

According to her autobiography, she got the nickname Clara Bixby when Billy De Wolfe told her, on the Tea for Two set, 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.