당대의 할리우드 대스타 '도리스 데이', 97세로 별세 VIDEO: Doris Day, Hollywood actress and singer, dies aged 97

Doris Day, Hollywood actress and singer, dies aged 97

Hollywood legend Doris Day, whose films made her one of the biggest female stars of all time, has died aged 97.

The singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).

At 97, Doris Day Is a Passionate Advocate for Animals/Guideposts

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당대의 할리우드 대스타 '도리스 데이', 97세로 별세    불멸의 히트곡 '케 세라, 세라(Que Sera, Sera)'로 유명한 할리우드 배우 도리스 데이가 13일(현지시간) 별세했다. 향년 97세. 영국 공영 BBC 방송에 따르면 도리스 데이 동물재단은 이날 발표한 성명에서 데이가 미국 캘리포니아에 있는 자택에서 숨을 거뒀다고 발표했다. 재단은 데이가 최근 심각한 폐렴에 걸리기 전까지 나이에 비해 매우 좋은 건강 상태를 유지했다고 전했다. 데이는 할리우드 역사상 최고의 여배우 중 한명으로 평가된다. 1950∼1960년대 큰 인기를 얻었다. 가수에서 배우로 변신해 '칼라미티 제인'(Calamity Jane), '필로우 토크'(Pillow Talk) 등의 영화에 출연했으며, 1956년 '케 세라, 세라'를 불렀다. (런던=연합뉴스) 박대한 특파원 pdhis959@yna.co.kr *도리스 데이는 미국의 배우, 가수, 동물보호운동가다. 1939년 빅 밴드의 가수로 초개탁했다. 1945년, 첫째 성공작 〈Sentimental Journey〉로써 명성을 얻었다

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Her screen partnership with Rock Hudson was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 60s.

In a statement, the Doris Day Animal Foundation said she died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California.

Doris Day: America's girl next door

It said she had been "in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia".

"She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed," the statement continued.

Day pictured in her 1950s heyday/GETTY IMAGES

Born Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.

Instead she began her singing career at the age of 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.

Her films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.

In later life she became an advocate for animal welfare

But she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.

Honours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2008.

Her last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in 2011.

 

Pillow Talk was the first of three films she made with Rock Hudson

Day's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.

"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," Groucho Marx once remarked.

Day herself said her "Miss Chastity Belt" image was "more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played."

Her life was certainly not as sunny. She married four times, was divorced three times and was widowed once.

She also suffered a mental breakdown and had severe financial trouble after one husband squandered her money.

In the 1970s, she turned away from performing to focus her energies on her animal foundation.

According to the organisation, she wished to have no funeral, memorial service or grave marker.

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