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[howard]

This cover shot from Screen Stories is one of my absolute favorites. Thanks, Bryan.

[webmaster]

Cheers, Howard, I really like it too. Interesting that she's photographed from her 'bad' side (left). Remember that row with Cary Grant on 'That Touch of Mink' when both wanted to be photographed from the right? Cary was sitting in 'her spot' when Doris went on the set so she walked off and summoned manager Marty. They had a long discussion - resulting in Cary moving to the other spot.

I remember having a discussion with Lauren about and this and that and saying I couldn't see any difference. Lauren said that Doris thought that her left side looked slightly puffier that her right on film. I still can't see it - she looks beautiful from both sides, I'm sure we all agree.

Glad you like The Real Tuesday Weld, Johnny, they did a version of "I'll See You in My Dreams" - just for fun, I imagine - they do a lot of old stuff as well as modern and call their sound 'antique beat',

[Musiclover]

We watched It Happened to Jane recently and I noticed that several shots of Doris were set up on her left side. Also, her final scene in Pillow Talk is of her left. It would be interesting to know when she began to have such a strong preference for her right side.

An unusual treatment of this song, Bryan. Wonder what Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn would think of it?!

[puck]

AMAZING Banner, absolute amazing, thank you Bryan, great creation, wonderful colors.

[Jas1]

Bryan- Doris admits in her book that later in her career while she still preferred one side of her face to the other- she didn't mind as much as her face became thinner and not so round [with age] - although at the time of Touch of Mink- it obviously still was an issue for her. She also states that in Love me or leave me- they insisted on photographing her from the side to which she preferred and she kept telling them -"you're making a mistake" although she conceded when she saw the film she couldn't complain.

[webmaster]

That's very interesting, Jas, I didn't know any of that. Glad it became less of an issue for her later on.

Thanks Puck - and yes, I wonder Judy! Hopefully they would have enjoyed it as a tribute to a great song.

[howard]

I wonder why she was so insistent about that taxi scene in "Mink?" In the same film, scene on the "roof" of Cary's unfinished building, she's photographed left profile. Curious?

[webmaster]

Perhaps (perhaps, perhaps) she wasn't having a Doris Day?

She was reputedly insecure about how she looked. Not the first or last star to feel that way - your face shown at 100 times magnification and more. Every little flaw exaggerated. Mind you, they had a lot of make up artists as well (you'd never know that Doris had freckles from most of her films).

[Musiclover]

This is a bit off topic, but a hyperbolic comment in Doris's memoir about make-up men in general amused me so much: She thought they were "embalmers posing as make-up men." Shirley MacLaine has freckles, too, but were they usually covered up like Doris's were?

[webmaster]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American cousins:

[Johnny]

The new Motion Picture banner is so bright and cheerful, just like Doris. I wonder what the $10,000 Big Movie Star Contest was about.

The photo of Doris with the turkey brings to mind Gregory, the Thanksgiving turkey, in By The Light of The Silvery Moon. Wesley became attached to the turkey and the exchange with his father who was trying to teach him a lesson is hilarious.

The film is a delightful Thanksgiving treat for family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American neighbours.

[Jas1]

Happy Thanksgiving to all across the pond.

Back to faces and "the" book - Doris said that Claudette Colbert simply was never photographed on one side and stated "God really wasted half a face on Claudette."

She also note the importance of a good camera man and the angle of the shoot- noting Grace Kelly.

And, as we know Doris was very concerned about how she looked on camera and aging etc. and so her cameraman was [probably] the most important expert around [for her] - she states Leon Shamroy as her favourite- I'd love to know if there are any stories around from her camera crew or others on set- calling Paul?

[webmaster]

There was that story earlier, Jas, about Doris wanting to make "Jumbo" and going to see Joe Pasternak:

"Doris Day came to me with this project. She hadn’t done a musical in years. Still seethed about losing "South Pacific." But she was 40 and she insisted on all those fuzzy close-ups. After a few day’s shooting she comes to my office saying she felt our camera man, Joe Ruttenberg, was getting too long in the tooth And I said, “Could be. After all, Doris, we know you haven’t aged a bit.”

[webmaster]

Played about with the original:

[Johnny]

Bryan,
Thanks for another great Doris magazine cover.
The time period looks like 1956-57.
I wonder about the secret pact Ava had with Frank.

[webmaster]

Cheers Johnny. I just did a quick search - Aug 1956 is right.

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[webmaster]

Amazing, you write a letter to a magazine and they put a huge colour photo of you on the front page!

Never happened to me! What's the betting it had something to do with four-leggers?

[Johnny]

Doris looks sensational in yellow. The photo looks like it is from 1971-73 era when Doris had her television series. It is hard to believe the magazine was only 25 cents.
It would be interesting to know the total count on the number of magazines covers Doris appeared on. It is impossible to know since she appeared on magazine covers in countries around the world.
I wonder what magazine it was when she first appeared on the cover and when. It must have been in the 1940's.
Thank you Bryan!

[Jas1]

Fabulous sunny "Day" banner.

Re- looks- it is so unfair on the ladies - and still is to a greater degree, how they are judged by their looks and youth etc. - I know what I am like with photographs of me [might like one in 10] - so I can imagine how insecure it would make a person to be up there on the massive screen and open to scrutiny - especially from some very cruel critics (as some were to Doris later in her career re- her looks).

While aging is a blessing "age is a privilege denied to many" - some aspects are not - but we have to concentrate on the positive.

[Musiclover]

Johnny, the earliest cover photo I've seen of Doris by herself on a major magazine was in July, 1948, on Downbeat magazine. To have a solo cover on Downbeat was a real feather in one's cap. Doris and singer Kitty Kallen shared a cover photo in the spring of 1947, however.

[Johnny]

Thank you Musiclover!

I wonder if Doris received much coverage for her song Day By Day which I believe was circa 1941. I also wonder about Sentimental Journey that was a huge hit for Doris during World War 2.

I will find out more about Downbeat magazine. It sounds interesting.

[howard]

Here's a 1947 cover with Frank and Doris - "Your Hit Parade"

[Musiclover]

Johnny, two songs connected with Doris's early career have similar titles. Are you thinking of the one which she sang when she joined Barney Rapp's band and which led him to choose Day as her last name? If so, that was "Day After Day." It was written no later than 1939, but I can't remember by whom. The song "Day By Day," written by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, was published in 1945 and had hit versions done by several different artists, including Doris's rendition with Les Brown that charted the following year.

[Johnny]

It is fantastic to see how Doris is recognized on magazine covers prior to her film career.

Thanks so much Howard!

[Johnny]

Thank you Musiclover for the clarification.

I was thinking of Day By Day which Doris recorded with Les Brown. It is one of my top favourite Doris recordings..

I found a post on the forum by mikeydv from June 2014 commenting on Day After Day. He states that Doris sang the song but never recorded it.

Thanks again.