![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1920 Death: September 16, 1998 Biography:Before another actress named "Doris Day" became a renowned 1950s and '60s movie star, singer, and "Rock Hudson"-screen partner, the first "Doris Day" played a smattering of small roles in mostly B-movies. Born in 1920, this Day sang in nightclubs and did theater before making her film debut opposite singing cowboy "Roy Rogers" in Republic Pictures' "The Saga of Death Valley" (1939). Over the next several years, Day also appeared in "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1939), "Village Barn Dance" (1940), and the MGM "Joan Crawford" vehicle "A Woman's Face" (1941). After her last film, the "Bob Hope" espionage tale "They Got Me Covered" (1943), Day left the movies to pursue a career as one of the first female aerial daredevils. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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