Doris Day

London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Fine/Near Fine. 1991. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0297810898 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition First Printing. Doris Day by Eric Braun. Doris Day almost always portrayed the sunny, smiling, uncomplicated girl-net-door who just happened to have a voice that was pure magic. This authoratitive biography of one of Hollywood'[s best-loved stars traces a career that appears never to have been faltered. Now sixty-seven Doris Day found fame in the early Forties as a singer with the Bob Crosby and Les Brown bands. She was an immediate success in her first film Romance on the High Seas and by the Fifties she was America's favourite film star. In the late Fifties and in the Sixties she starred, almost always remaining virginal, in a series of bedroom farces with Cary Grant, Rock Hudson and James Garner. She was nomited for an Oscar for Pillow Talk in 1959. Her favourite film was Calamity Jane. The author shows how Doris's personal life has been far different from her image as 'The Constant Virgin' and recounts her childhood and early days as a singer when a near-fatal car crash put paid to her budding career as a dancer. For all Doris Day's legion of admirers this first full biography will make essential reading. Including 16 pages of black and white illustrations. 212 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .