Mr. Young's book, chronicles Miss Day's spectacular career from teenaged dancer, through her band singing days to nightclubs, recordings and eventually cinema stardom. Each film Doris Day made is covered in this handsome book. Sharp and incisive reviews accompany each film with several pages of key scene photographs.
Miss Day's co-stars were like a who's who of Hollywood's elite. From James Cagney, Cary Grant and James Stewart to Rock Hudson, James Garner and Jack Lemmon, to name a few, she starred with the best actors in the business. The book displays the range of Miss Day's film career, but also includes pictures from her successful television series, The Doris Day Show, which ran for five years on CBS, and her two tv specials.
This book should be in every bookstore, for Miss Day's legions of fans, around the world, are avid collectors of her memorabilia. Thousands of them were not even alive when this book was published. Her films, such as "Calamity Jane" "Love Me or Leave Me" "Young at Heart" and "Pillow Talk" become the favorites of new generations of movie fans each year.
Publishers, please dust off the galleys!