Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Doris Day, Anita O'Day, Kay Starr, Al Hibbler, Marion Hutton, Johnny Desmond, Don Cornell, Barry Wood, Irene Taylor, Sam Browne, Guy Hovis, Eddy Howard, Lucy Fabery, Ralna English, Fran Warren, Beryl Davis, Ginny Simms, Kathleen Lane, Helen O'Connell, Snooky Lanson, Tanya Falan Welk-Roberts, Leah Ray, Jan Smigmator, Harry Babbitt, Lucy Ann Polk, Ray Pilgrim, Bob Carroll, Bob Eberly, Paula Kelly, Bob Vincent, Marjorie Hughes, Terry Allen, Johnny McKeever. Excerpt: Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1924) is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, Sentimental Journey, in 1945. After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records. Recording more than 650 songs, the contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, becoming Day's only recording label and one of the label's greatest recording stars. In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for a part to Michael Curtiz, which led to her the lead in Romance on the High Seas, her first film. With a legendary Hollywood "girl-next-door" image and capable of delivering comedy, romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, recorded 28 albums and spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts . She also received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won a Golden Globe, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion...