Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio
With her considerable talent and plucky spirit, Doris Day embodied the wholesome ideal of 1950s America. But while her films were usually lighthearted, her own life was filled with turbulence and heartache. Scenes from her classic films, newsreels, trailers, rare photographs and intimate interviews with family, friends and colleagues document the dramatic life and career of a screen legend. Narrated by Peter Graves Highlights: Never-before-seen home movies and rare candid photographs of Day from all stages of her life. Dazzling clips, outtakes and trailers from her films including Calamity Jane, Love Me Or Leave Me, Pillow Talk, The Man Who Knew Too Much and more Intimate interviews with son Terry Melcher, actresses Edie Adams, Kaye Ballard and Jackie Joseph, band leader Les Brown, actors James Garner and John Raitt, biographer A.E. Hotchner, producer Don Genson, film critic Molly Haskell and more.
Editor's Note
Singing, dancing, and -- let's not forget -- acting her way to the top during the '50s and '60s, Doris Day lived an off-screen life wrought with difficulty. In this edition of the award-winning BIOGRAPHY series, join James Garner and others as they reflect on the woman that sang "Que Sera, Sera." Features clips from PILLOW TALK, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, and other Day films.
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