All-American Girl: Doris Day’s Deceptively Sunny Life

“I think God did a little dance around her when she was born,” actress Kaye Ballard once said of her dear friend Doris Day. Midcentury America agreed. Day, the bubbly superstar of classics like Pillow Talk and The Man Who Knew Too Much, even captivated A.E. Hotchner, the initially reluctant coauthor of her best-selling 1976 autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story. It was yet another win for the woman who walked into a room “infectiously radiating the joy of life,” according to Hotchner. Encouraged by her friend Jacqueline Susann, author of Valley of the Dolls, to set the record straight,… Read Full Article