Doris Day
Also Known As: Doris Kappelhoff, Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff
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 Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, she was the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranked sixth among the top ten box office performers (male and female).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birthday: April 03, 1922
Deathday: May 13, 2019
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Gender: Female
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Overview: 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 the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Send Me No Flowers
Overview: 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 more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Pillow Talk
Overview: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Move Over, Darling
Overview: 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 goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-19
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The Thrill of It All
Overview: A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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My Dream Is Yours
Overview: 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, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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It's a Great Feeling
Overview: 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 Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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Tea for Two
Overview: 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 wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Midnight Lace
Overview: Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Lucky Me
Overview: Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-09
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The Glass Bottom Boat
Overview: 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 affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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That Touch of Mink
Overview: 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 apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-14
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Young Man with a Horn
Overview: 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 also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Storm Warning
Overview: 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 sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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The Pajama Game
Overview: 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 for a pay raise.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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Lover Come Back
Overview: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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It Happened to Jane
Overview: Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-24
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Love Me or Leave Me
Overview: A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-26
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April in Paris
Overview: 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 bureaucrat.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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Calamity Jane
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-04
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On Moonlight Bay
Overview: 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 the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-26
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Overview: 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 stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-19
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Overview: The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Young at Heart
Overview: 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 composer and a cynical music arranger.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Overview: Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Lullaby of Broadway
Overview: 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 Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-26
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Romance on the High Seas
Overview: 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 cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-25
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Caprice
Overview: Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-18
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Do Not Disturb
Overview: 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 his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Tunnel of Love
Overview: 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's surrogate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Julie
Overview: A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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With Six You Get Eggroll
Overview: 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 they're not prepared for the hostile reactions from their children, who are not very excited about the new union between the two families.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-07
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Overview: 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 housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Overview: 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 tribulations of her family.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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The Ballad of Josie
Overview: A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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The West Point Story
Overview: A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Overview: This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public "ladies' man" persona to his private life as a gay man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-20
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The Winning Team
Overview: 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 and redemption.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-20
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Doris Day: It's Magic
Overview: 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 close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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Catalina Island
Overview: An MGM short subject to promote their film "The Glass Bottom Boat".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Starlift
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar
Overview: A documentary about Doris Day and the question where she is today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-02
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
Overview: By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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My Lost Horizon
Overview: Les Brown and His Orchestra perform "My Lost Horizon" with Doris Day
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-07
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Is It Love or Is It Conscription?
Overview: Doris Day sings "Is It Love or Is It Conscription?" with Les Brown and His Orchestra
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-21
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Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Overview: A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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NASA
Overview: A promotional short for The Glass Bottom Boat. Details NASA's participation in the production of the film. Hosted by Doris Day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
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Volunteers
Overview: After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Rowan & Martin at the Movies
Overview: 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 that trumpet player Herb Alpert is the only other performer listed in the credits who is actually there in person. The others appear in clips, some from their own U.S. Savings Bonds spots, others from unidentified movie or TV appearances. Singer Barbara McNair is shown entertaining U.S. troops in Viet Nam, and the youth group The Young Americans also sings.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: 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 Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
Overview: The making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-01
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The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special
Overview: 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 contract that Day insists to this day was negotiated by her husband and manager Martin Melcher without her knowledge. When Melcher died suddenly in April 1968, Day chose to go ahead and honour the contract, appearing in both specials as well as starring in her eponymous sitcom for five seasons, from 1968-1973.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-14
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Overview: Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante and Frank Sinatra.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Overview: This half-hour family special is a delightful combination of animated adaptations of classic holiday songs - performed by top stars ranging from Frank Sinatra to Macy Gray - plus live-action shots. The animated segments feature classic and all-new recordings of well-known holiday songs and are visually conceived through the skills of several top animators of a group of adorable 4 to 8-year old children, as well as by short live-action pieces that celebrate the holiday spirit of giving, sharing, and loving.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: 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 numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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Doris Day Today
Overview: 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 and Day sing a few entertaining duets, and funnyman Tim Conway joins in on a couple of skits. Then, Rich Little impersonates some of Day's legendary co-stars, including Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon. Songs include selections from Love Me or Leave Me, Teacher's Pet, Calamity Jane and more.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Every Girl's Dream
Overview: 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 described by the narrator. She also attends the "screen test" of the costumes designed by Ray Aghayan for The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). The clothing is modeled by the film's stars, Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: 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 itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Screen Snapshots: Hollywood on the Ball
Overview: Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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So You Want a Television Set
Overview: 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 refrigerator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-23
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Doris Day: Virgin Territory
Overview: 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 early years as a band singer, and her troubled private life, this documentary re-evaluates one of the screen's most enduring legends.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Overview: During the 1950s, musical masterpieces that have yet to be equaled were produced in Cinemascope with stereophonic sound. These two episodes explore how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation in musical film. Later in the decade, Rock & Roll became the musical choice of the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights of this 2-part program include: Films based on smash Broadway musicals become the rage. A pretty starlet with no musical training named Marilyn Monroe takes the country by storm in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." With favorites from the previous decade continue to delight audiences: Rock & Roll films, songs and musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-10
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The Sparks Brothers
Overview: Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
Genres: Documentary Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Once Over, Lightly
Overview: Doris Day & Jimmie Palmer have a romantic musical interlude.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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