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Inside Doris Day’s Rocky Road to Hollywood Stardom: ‘I Have Always Been a Survivor’
Doris Day's road to stardom came with some bumps along the way. Closer takes you inside her path to Hollywood prowess and all of the hardships she overcame.
After Doris Day ’s performance at a party in Beverly Hills, a composer asked the 26-year-old singer to audition for an upcoming movie musical, Romance on the HighSeas. Warner Brothers/Getty Images Doris was living in a trailer outside Los Angeles and planning her return to Cincinnati, where her mother was taking care of Terry, when composer Sammy Cahn heard her sing at a party and asked her to audition for Romance on the High Seas. “He refused to allow her to take acting lessons and didn’t allow her to watch the rushes of Romance on the High Seas in order to maintain her confidence,” says Curtiz biographer Alan K. Rode.
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