Posted on 06/24/2004 6:32:23 AM PDT by veronica
Doris Day chatted with President George W. Bush about their mutual love of dogs when he phoned to congratulate the iconic performer and animal welfare advocate on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The Prez told Doris that he's an animal person, and talked about his Scottish terrier Barney and about the critters on his ranch.
And then Day advised the president that he'd get more votes if he'd quit hunting.
She tells us that her sentiments about Bush's hunting won't stop her from voting for him. "I'm pulling for him every step of the way," she makes clear.
Day, who starred with Ronald Reagan in two films, remained friends with the Gipper through his presidency. Like him, she switched from Democrat to staunch Republican - part of a Hollywood social set she recalls including Jimmy and Gloria Stewart, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and Jack and Mary Benny.
She remembers once quizzing Reagan as to what he'd done with his giant sheep dog, Lucky, who had disappeared from the White House. Reagan sent her a photo of Lucky at the wheel of an old red Jeep full of dogs on his California ranch with the message, "Look who's in the driver's seat." She says Reagan's recent death was hard to take.
Day, who turned 80 in April and who does not travel by air, opted to stay home in Carmel when the Medal of Freedom presentations were made Wednesday. Still, she's deeply affected. She broke into tears when talking with us about the honor. "To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of a tribute from my country ... I love this country so much ..."
Asked whether she'd ever act again, the top box-office movie actress of her time says, "You never know. It's up to God. If I were meant to, I'd be led to it. I pray about everything that comes to me. That way I don't have any hassles in my mind."
Doris Day Is one of my favorite people.I worked for her aunt for a short while 55 years ago.I met her and a friend of hers that came to visit her aunt.
When Rock Hudson died DD was quoted as saying
"IF..... There is a Heaven I'm sure Rock
is there because he was such a kind person"
Left me wondering about her Spiritual condition.
I smile every time I think of the "Barney Cam"!
Small world. My Mom knew Doris Day as a school girl in Cincy as well. College Hill I think it was. It was a long time ago.
FYI...Rosemary Clooney was in the same class.
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
Caprice (1967)
The Ballad of Josie (1967)
Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966)
Do Not Disturb (1965)
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
That Touch of Mink (1962)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Midnight Lace (1960)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Pillow Talk (1959)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
The Pajama Game (1957)
Julie (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Young at Heart (1955)
Lucky Me (1954)
Calamity Jane (1953)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
April in Paris (1952)
The Winning Team (1952)
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Storm Warning (1951)
West Point Story, The (1950)
Tea for Two (1950)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Television:
Doris Day's Best Friends (1985)
The Doris Day Show (1968)
Agnes Moorehead played the mother in the "Bewiched" series
..... It's adorable---and smart and funny, too.Yep ! I saw that movie the year it came out, or soon after that.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057581/ratings
366 'IMDb users' have given a weighted average vote of 6.7 / 10
Demographic breakdowns are shown below.
Votes Percentage Rating 51 13.9%
10 48 9 83 8 81 7 61 6 20 5 8 4 4 3 4 2 6 1 Arithmetic mean = 7.4. Median = 7
Hee! Hee! Hee!
If President Bush took her advice and stopped hunting, would John F'n Kerry have to run another photo-op that showed him not holding a shotgun but maybe with some birding glasses? "He observes birds but doesn't shoot them." Or maybe "I shot birds before I didn't shoot them"?
It would be another opportunity to show himself in a color-coordinated athletic outfit. He could show us what the well-dressed Boston Brahman birder wears these days.
TCM is showing the Desperate Journey at 1:00 today. It is very much worth watching.
And the actors and actresses back when they made great movies and actors just were that!
Actors!
Not like the ones now a days, who try to also get into politics, actors and actresses like Doris Day did not get into politics, and when they did, like Ronald Reagan, they would quit acting all together.
These people were ACTORS not ACTIVISTS. I guess that's what I'm saying.
She was a Cincinnati gal....need the Ohio vote...I
was at XU in Cincy in late 40's..she was an item then in
the Cincy area....hope she has plenty of relatives still in the buckeye state....Jake
She might have, did she have brothers and sisters?
I don't mind actors being involved with politics, what I don't like is their being so wrong so often.
Me too, and they'd get angry at those who don't agree with thier philosophy.
"Doris Day? Wasn't she a 'main squeeze' of Rock Hudson's?"
Um...family...I don't know how to break this to you....
you know this thread has made me somewhat worthless today. I leave then I keep coming back!
Although I would struggle to put together a list of my top 10 favorite actresses, Maureen O'Hara and Doris Day are certainly among them.
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