Posted on 06/05/05
All singin', all dancin' Doris
In his autobiography, This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, director Norman Jewison recalls working with Doris Day on two of her films, The Thrill of It All and Send Me No Flowers. He has nothing good to say about her husband at the time, Martin Melcher, who was overbearing and, before he died in 1968, lost all her money in bad investments. But he has only good things to say about Day, who, though insecure about her appearance on screen, was a marvellous performer. "She had terrific timing," he writes, "a natural comedic rhythm."
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