Biography
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 - May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer, and an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Her entertainment career began in the 1940s as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey". In 1948, she appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she appeared in 39 films, recorded more than 650 songs, received an Academy Awar...
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Complete Filmography

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2023
as Self (archive footage)
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public "ladies' man" persona to hi...

The Sparks Brothers
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your fav...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Self (archive footage)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...

What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar
2009
as Self (voice)
A documentary about Doris Day and the question where she is today.

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
as Self (archive)
During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore ho...

Doris Day: Virgin Territory
2007
as Self
Doris Day has often been dismissed as an actress and overlooked as a singer, despite career highs such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk. Covering her ...

'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
2004
as Self
This half-hour family special is a delightful combination of animated adaptations of classic holiday songs - performed by top stars ranging from Frank...

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris Day,...

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
The making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.

Doris Day: It's Magic
1998
as Self
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers clos...

That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991
as Self
A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day.

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
as (archive footage)
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of t...

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

Doris Day Today
1975
as Self
America's sweetheart Doris Day offers songs and sketches with some of her famous friends in this smash hit television special from 1975. John Denver a...

The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special
1971
as Self
This was the first of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS' 1968 multi-million-dollar contract with Doris Day's production company, a...

With Six You Get Eggroll
1968
as Abby McClure
Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter, begin dating and eventually decide to get married. But the...

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
1968
as Margaret Garrison
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of ...

The Ballad of Josie
1968
as Josie
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.

Rowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
as Self (archive footage)
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. It turns out tha...

Caprice
1967
as Patricia Foster
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.

Lionpower from MGM
1967
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...

The Glass Bottom Boat
1966
as Jennifer Nelson
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affect...
Catalina Island
1966
as Self
An MGM short subject to promote their film "The Glass Bottom Boat".
NASA
1966
as herself
A promotional short for The Glass Bottom Boat. Details NASA's participation in the production of the film. Hosted by Doris Day.

Every Girl's Dream
1966
as Self
Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at the MGM Studios. Her various cotton outfits are desc...

Do Not Disturb
1965
as Janet Harper
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with h...

Send Me No Flowers
1964
as Judy Kimball
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two ...

Move Over, Darling
1963
as Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that ...

The Thrill of It All
1963
as Beverly Boyer
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
as Kitty Wonder
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.

That Touch of Mink
1962
as Cathy Timberlake
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to...

Lover Come Back
1961
as Carol Templeton
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out ...

Midnight Lace
1960
as Kit Preston
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960
as Kate Mackay
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewi...

Pillow Talk
1959
as Jan Morrow
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him a...

It Happened to Jane
1959
as Jane Osgood
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, ...

The Tunnel of Love
1958
as Isolde Poole
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife...

Teacher's Pet
1958
as Erica Stone
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

The Pajama Game
1957
as Katherine 'Babe' Williams
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand...

Julie
1956
as Julie Benton
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
as Jo McKenna
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their sile...

Love Me or Leave Me
1955
as Ruth Etting
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stard...

Young at Heart
1954
as Laurie Tuttle
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming compo...
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

Lucky Me
1954
as Candy Williams
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi...

Calamity Jane
1953
as Calamity Jane
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way...
So You Want a Television Set
1953
as Doris Day (uncredited)
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refri...

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953
as Marjorie Winfield
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and trib...

April in Paris
1952
as Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bu...

The Winning Team
1952
as Aimee Alexander
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback ...
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on the Ball
1952
as Self
Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams.

Starlift
1951
as Doris Day
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

I'll See You in My Dreams
1951
as Grace LeBoy Kahn
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

On Moonlight Bay
1951
as Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across...

Lullaby of Broadway
1951
as Melinda Howard
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful...

Storm Warning
1951
as Lucy Rice
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sis...

The West Point Story
1950
as Jan Wilson
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Tea for Two
1950
as Nanette Carter
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she...

Young Man with a Horn
1950
as Jo Jordan
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst ...

It's a Great Feeling
1949
as Judy Adams
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and ...

My Dream Is Yours
1949
as Martha Gibson
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York...

Romance on the High Seas
1948
as Miss Georgia Garrett
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...
Once Over, Lightly
1941
as Self, Singer
Doris Day & Jimmie Palmer have a romantic musical interlude.

Is It Love or Is It Conscription?
1941
as Self - Vocalist
Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra

My Lost Horizon
1941
as Self - Vocalist
Les Brown and His Orchestra perform "My Lost Horizon" with Doris Day
With Love, Doris!
N/A
as Self (archive footage/audio)
An in-depth documentary built around never-before-heard audio tapes of Day responding to letters from fans. Day dictated her responses over the phone ...