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"There aren&amp;#039;t many superstars like Doris Day still alive. There are even fewer around who manage to trouble the midweek charts with their billionth studio album in their in their 88th year but that&amp;#039;s just what Miss Day has done. To mark the release of her new record My Heart (a compilation of previously unreleased recordings produced by her late son Terry Melcher) we&amp;#039;ve had a root around and grabbed ten fast facts about the music and movie icon. 1. Named after silent movie star Doris Kenyon, Doris Day was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff to mum Alma Sophia Welz and music teacher dad William in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 3, 1924. 2. It was big band leader Barney Rapp who convinced her to change her surname, inspired by the song &amp;#039;Day After Day&amp;#039; which she sang with the group. Apparently, Doris was never too keen on the moniker, thinking it made her sound too much like a stripper! 3. Doris actually wanted to be a professional dancer and formed a duo with Jerry Doherty in the mid-1930s Her dreams of the stage were dashed after she crushed her leg in a car accident in 1937. She still managed to pull some more-than-adequate shapes in many of her film roles, though. 4. She scored her first hit in 1945 as a singer for the Les Brown band with the song &amp;#039;Sentimental Journey&amp;#039;. Doris says that her singing teacher Grace Raine is the person who had the biggest impact on her career. A more physical sort of collision came in the filming of Move Over Darling in 1963, when co-star James Garner accidentally broke her rib while throwing her off Polly Bergen in a massage scene. Ouch! Watch the famous car wash scene from Move Over Darling below:      5. While most of us can only dream of earning ourselves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Doris has a whopping constellation of two! There&amp;#039;s one at 6278 Hollywood Blvd for her music, and a second up the road at 6735 for her acting. 6. She&amp;#039;s picked up a few other accolades in her time. There was the &amp;#039;Cecil B. DeMille Award&amp;#039; for Lifetime Achievement in films at the 1989 Golden Globes, an Academy Award nod for Pillow Talk in 1959, a &amp;#039;Lifetime Achievement&amp;#039; Grammy in 2008, the 2010 &amp;#039;Legend Award&amp;#039; from the Society of Singers, and back in 2004 she picked up the highest US civilian honour - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 7. Apparently Doris didn&amp;#039;t pick up the gong from George W. Bush in person, because she&amp;#039;s afraid of flying. She reportedly also rejected a Kennedy Center gong and honorary Academy Award for the same reason. 8. Doris is a famous animal lover, having founded the Doris Day Animal League and the Doris Day Animal Foundation. Her love of animals reportedly comes from watching the poor treatment of her non-human co-stars in Alfred Hitchcock&amp;#039;s The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956. 9. Even if you&amp;#039;ve not seen the suspense classic, you&amp;#039;re sure to have heard its theme, sung by Doris several times in the film (and recently covered by Corinne Bailey Rae). &amp;#039;Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)&amp;#039; won an Oscar and was later used as on the The Doris Day Show before being borrowed by football fans across the country dreaming of cup glory. Watch Doris Day singing &amp;#039;Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)&amp;#039; in The Man Who Knew Too Much below:      10. She&amp;#039;s always had a super squeaky-clean image, which is perhaps why she turned down the part of Mrs Robinson in 1967. The brilliantly nasty role famously went to Anne Bancroft, who I think may have been trying to seduce me.... &amp;gt; Read more Ten Things... About Celebrities "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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