Dolly Alderton on Doris Day

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dolly Alderton's love of Doris Day began when she watched Calamity Jane as a young child. And for Dolly, the incandescent film star was as much of a poster girl as The Spice Girls. But Dolly's view of the legendary actress and singer has changed as she's matured. Dolly joins Matthew Parris and Dr Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Reader in Film and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Kent, to discuss dancing, divorces and dogs. Together they explore whether the image of Doris Day as a happy-go-lucky girl-next-door is a true reflection of the life and character of one of the twentieth century's most famous stars. Producer: Camellia Sinclair Credit: Love Me or Leave Me (dir. Charles Vidor, MGM); Pillow Talk (dir. Michael Gordon, Arwin Productions).

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0:45.0	It is the summer of 1953.
0:47.0	We're in Los Angeles and it's lunchtime.
0:53.0	All morning, an orchestra has been rehearsing a particularly difficult song.
0:58.0	It's rich with sighing strings and fluttering harps.
1:02.0	Waving the conductor's baton is Warner Brothers musical director
1:07.0	Ray Hindorf. He has set aside three hours in the
1:13.4	part
1:14.4	and just before one the singer cycles over to join them
1:18.4	but she doesn't want to rehearse
1:20.4	she tells Ray she wants to just give it a whirl. Three and a half minutes later, the singer is on her way out of the recording studio after she's given Ray a perfect performance. The song Secret Love went on to top the Billboard chart and
1:35.9	win an Oscar and I can remember that song so very well. The singer is today's
1:42.2	subject. The Star was Doris Day.
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