Doris day biography 2008

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Doris Day - the Illustrated Biography - Hardcover

Synopsis

Doris Day is an icon of our times. One simply has to mention the titles of some of her most famous songs - "Secret Love", "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" and "Que Sera, Sera" to name a few - to identify immediately the attractive blonde who made mothers worldwide hope that their sons could bring home someone just like her. She dressed so exquisitely that girls all over America wanted to wear the kind of swishing skirts that were her trademark. Yet this is only part of the Doris Day story: the life of the girl born Doris Kappelhoff in April 1924 has been much more interesting and, in its way, more tragic than the films she starred in with Cary Grant and Rock Hudson might lead us to believe.She married four times, the third of which ended in disaster; it was only after the death of that husband, Marty Melcher, that she discovered he had not only squandered her $20 million fortune but had left her with $500,000 worth of debts. For the past twenty years, she has devoted much of her time to animals, for whom she provides a "hotel" at her home and runs an animal ambulance service. In this beautifully illustrated biography of a unique star, Michael Freedland tells the remarkable story of a screen

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Born Paris, 8 November 1954, David Bret is Britain's foremost authority on the French chanson, and a leading celebrity biographer and broadcaster. His first book, "The Piaf Legend", was published to huge critical acclaim in 1988, since which time he has published over forty books, most of them best-sellers. He has a large celebrity following. He has made over 600 radio and television appearances, and appeared in fifteen television documentaries.

DIARY

December 2016 "Dorothy Squires, Tortured Diva: An Intimate Portrait By Her Friend & Confidante" (DbBooks)

"Edith Piaf: Find Me A New Way To Die", Oberon, (paperback)

March 2017: "British Divas of the 1960s: Marianne Faithfull, Sandie Shaw & Lulu" (DbBooks)

July 2017: Currently under wraps, "The Blond Bombshell", a major biography of an A-lister film star.

David Bret's website is www.davidbretindependent.co.uk

He also has a Blog: http://davidbretbiographer.com