Doris Day News

Can a person be reincarnated when she's still alive? Doris Day, I am happy to report, is with us yet in her 86th year on planet Earth, although it's been more than 40 years since her last motion picture and more than 30 since she sang in public.

When I was a kid, I always imagined I would grow up to wear strappy high heels with designer dresses and that I would dash off to parties full of urbane conversations.

Percy Faith was one of the most popular easy listening recording artists of the '50s and '60s. Not only did he have a number of hit albums and singles under his own name, but Faith was responsible for arranging hits by Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, and Burl Ives, among others, as the musical director for Columbia Records in the '50s. Born ...

On this date in NEPA 50 years ago, movies playing locally included "Pillow Talk," starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, at the Comerford Drive-In; "Libel," starring Olivia de Havilland, at the West Side; and "The Tingler," starring Vincent Price, at the Strand.

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Percy Faith was one of the most popular easy listening recording artists of the '50s and '60s. Not only did he have a number of hit albums and singles under his own name, but Faith was responsible for arranging hits by Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, and Burl Ives, among others, as the musical director for Columbia Records in the '50s. Born ...

Q. You just released "Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day." Why did you decide to do an album featuring your take on Doris Day songs? Nellie McKay: I've always loved her music, and what she's done with animal [rights] activism.

Nellie McKay has three loves - animals, the Poconos, and Doris Day. She's penned her share of songs with pithy social criticism on subjects such as gay marriage and feminism.

In the late 1960s, Doris Day filmed her last major motion picture. It was a comedy about the chaos that ensues when a widow and widower marry, forcing two families and two sets of friends to converge.

Percy Faith was one of the most popular easy listening recording artists of the '50s and '60s. Not only did he have a number of hit albums and singles under his own name, but Faith was responsible for arranging hits by Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, and Burl Ives, among others, as the musical director for Columbia Records in the '50s. Born ...

In the late 1960s, actress Doris Day filmed her last major motion picture. It was a comedy about the chaos that ensues when a widow and widower marry, forcing two families and two sets of friends to converge.

Perhaps Doris Day captured the feeling best in the film Move Over Darling . After being stranded on an island for five years, her character, Ellen Wagstaff Arden, has been rescued by the U.S. Navy and the first thing she wants to do is call her family to tell them she is alive.

Nellie McKay is known as a stylistically eclectic singer-songwriter who's also delightfully eccentric, and the cover of her latest album - "Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day" - is in keeping with her reputation.

Danone has launched a campaign for its Actimel probiotic yoghurt-drink brand that focuses on humour rather than scientific research.

Director Fran DeVasto refers to the tone of his production of "Art of Murder" as "Alfred Hitchcock meets Carol Burnett." The Joe DiPietro script is a mystery with twists and turns, but DeVasto has also tried to give the show a comic edge.

"The Very Thought Of You" opens up the album gently and sweetly, and "Do Do Do" sets up McKay as a artist you can believe in.A McKay tackles "Sentimental Journey" with ease, showing her vocal 'chops' and maturity as a seasoned performer.

The curtain opens on a large room of a country estate, and one of the dominant pieces of furniture is a giant white rectangular box, attached to snaking pipes, that looks like a coffin.

With Nellie McKay, Marshall Crenshaw, Elvis Perkins, Zee Avi and A.A. Bondy. WHERE: Culture Center Theater WHEN: 7 p.m. Sunday TICKETS: Advance $12.50, at the door $18. INFO: www.mountainstage.org or 800-594-TIXX CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay said, "There are the people who listen to my music and the people who listen to Doris ...

Hollywood starlet Doris Day was a household name back in the 1950s and 1960s and while she withdrew from public life shortly thereafter, she is still the top-ranking female box-office star of all time.

Carshalton will be transformed into the Old West this week when the Charles Cryer Theatre plays host to the Lyric Playersa new spectacular, Calamity Jane.