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 Salzmank 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.
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 Salzmank 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.