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Post by Isapop on May 13, 2019 13:29:42 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2019 13:32:42 GMT
A day long dreaded.
Rest in peace, Miss Day.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on May 13, 2019 13:44:09 GMT
One of my very favorite actresses. I think today I will watch The Thrill Of It All, my favorite Doris Day movie.  |
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Post by politicidal on May 13, 2019 13:46:23 GMT
RIP. Indeed she was.  |
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Post by mattgarth on May 13, 2019 14:31:51 GMT
It Happened to Calamity Jane
RIP, Doris -- a grateful audience was made happier because of your talent.
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Post by snsurone on May 13, 2019 14:39:36 GMT
I expect (and hope) that TCM will cut its usual schedule and devote a day of marathons in memorial to her.
And I also expect that her name will be foremost on the TCM Remembers list in December.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 13, 2019 14:57:47 GMT
Yes, echo the sentiments thus far. Happy memories from childhood of watching her movies with my mother, then as I got older I still always had room for her movies in my life. 2 Box Sets I am proud to own and will be spinning some from them at the weekend.
Bless Her and R.I.P.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 13, 2019 14:58:08 GMT
While a hard worker and game for just about anything, she was a naturally gifted performer among a legendary collection of golden age 20th-century personalities who had it all, and whose like is hard to come by: multiply-talented and brimming with presence, charisma and mass audience appeal. With her early dancing ambitions sidelined as a teen by an auto accident, singing was merely a fall-back (can you imagine?), and her instinctive abilities as both dramatic and comic performer were prodigious. Like the equally-legendary Garbo (although not as reclusive), her big-screen career lasted only 20 years, and her retirement from acting lasted over twice as long, while she remained, I'd submit, even more iconic. By all accounts, she remained sunny, positive and living in the moment all though her final years. As Nalkarj says, it's a day we've dreaded; it seems as though there's always been Doris Day, and that there always would be, no matter how much common sense told us otherwise. But for those many millions of us who knew her only from a distance, there always will be.
And we're truly fortunate to have known her that way, and to continue to do so. She was a living legend; she's now an enduring one. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 13, 2019 15:04:24 GMT
Goodbye sweet lady with the angelic voice. Thank you for entertaining us so well and for so long.   |
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Post by sostie on May 13, 2019 15:12:42 GMT
Very sad news. It seemed during my childhood her romantic comedies were shown endlessly on TV on Sunday afternoons. I still love those films. She was probably one of my first crushes. A wonderful singing voice as well. RIP
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Post by Isapop on May 13, 2019 15:22:52 GMT
If I had to pick only one film to show off Doris Day it would be Love Me Or Leave Me. Both her singing and her dramatic chops are on display in abundance there.
She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. A pity. (Not disparaging Anne Bancroft.) Doris Day would have be a casting stroke of genius. It would have placed the audience right in the shoes of Benjamin. We would have totally empathized with the shock he feels when the way he has thought about this woman his whole life gets abruptly upended.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 13, 2019 15:30:23 GMT
It seemed during my childhood her romantic comedies were shown endlessly on TV on Sunday afternoons. I still love those films. She was probably one of my first crushes. Yep, me too on both accounts 
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 13, 2019 15:56:59 GMT
Very sad news. It seemed during my childhood her romantic comedies were shown endlessly on TV on Sunday afternoons. I still love those films. She was probably one of my first crushes. A wonderful singing voice as well. RIP She always reminded me too much of my mother to ever have been a crush: both were lightly-freckled natural redheads who went blonde; both with broad smiles and sweet singing voices; both with nearly unfailingly upbeat personalities (but look out for that temper). It's only partially for that reason that I found Day one of the most convincing of screen mothers. In films like Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Thrill Of It All and With Six You Get Eggroll, she brought oh-so-authentic qualities of affectionate exasperation, patient indulgence and privately eye-rolling resignation, along with the vaguely-distracted multi-tasking imposed on any mother of multiple offspring, and I believed every minute of it.
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Post by Rufus-T on May 13, 2019 15:58:53 GMT
Nobody can make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day. RIP
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Post by spiderwort on May 13, 2019 16:03:16 GMT
Oh, what a sad, sad day this is. There are no words to convey my sorrow. She was one of the brightest lights in the world, who in her long life worked hard to make the world a better place. I will cherish her forever. May she rest in peace. |
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Post by petrolino on May 13, 2019 17:16:08 GMT
Legendary performer. My sister's favourite classics era actress.
R.I.P.
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Post by jervistetch on May 13, 2019 18:03:13 GMT
In addition to Doris' talent, her love and advocacy for Dogs made her truly dear to my heart. Love you, Ms. Day.   |
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Post by teleadm on May 13, 2019 18:07:23 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 13, 2019 21:10:30 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on May 13, 2019 21:17:02 GMT
Her performance in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH was really good.
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