Ms. Day was the triple threat: she sang, danced and acted. She was a singer with the Les Brown orchestra when big bands were big, and naturally segued into movies, musicals and a solo singing career.
She was attractive and wholesome looking. Blonde hair, slightly freckled, Pepsodent smile. She was the girl next door and was often cast in female roles that were clean and virtuous. Always virtuous. She is still with us at 96, but if she were younger today and not a triple threat she could easily be a Fox on-air personality.
She made several movies with Rock Hudson as her male romantic lead: Pillow Talk; Lover Come Back. She starred with Jimmy Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me, which was just on Turner. She is featured on Turner when they theme a day for Doris Day.
Her image was pure and so well-scrubbed that her sometimes slightly tipsy co-star Oscar Levant, usually playing the piano, chain-smoking, and sardonic, quipped in pure Dorothy Parker fashion that he knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
While absorbing this piece of Doris Day biography we've got the NYT online edition which is becoming downright playful. Consider the interactive Q&A they've concocted to slake any curiosity you might have regarding the soon-to-happen royal wedding between Prince Harry, the late Princess Diana's son, and Meghan Markle, a cute-as-a-button, slightly older, biraccial, divorced American actress, most notably lately in the series Suits.
Sarah Lyall and Elizabeth Paton, NYT reporters have created a list of 61 questions, surrounded by a design team's efforts that put butterflies, birds, and little furry animals that scurry across the screen. It's a scene straight out of Bambi. There's a squirrel anchored in the lower right corner gnawing on an acorn that stays with you as you scroll through the questions and then open whichever one you want for the answer. Ms. Lyall has dubbed his job title, "matrimonial, concierge squirrel."
What's on your mind? "Will there be cake." "Will there be bridesmaids?" "Who will design Ms. Markle's dress?" The site promises to keep updating the list as questions and answers come in and can be answered.
The 61st item is not really a question but is a delight, and an outright invitation to participate. "Oi, I have a question that wasn't answered here."
I remember the hubbub that surrounded Prince Charles's wedding to Princess Diana, and how at the time the royal bride was expected to be a virgin. The reports were she was. The requirement has since been phased out.
I have to think there must be other people like myself who used the template on Item 61, supplying name and email address and text of a question to ask some doozies. I for one asked two. Both of which have gone unanswered.
The second question I asked is if Ms. Lyall was going back to England to cover the wedding, inasmuch as she was a reporter there for some many years. I realize now the answer is probably no, since Elizabeth Paton is fashion and luxury reporter for Europe. My guess is we'll be getting dispatches from her.
My first question also predictably has gone unanswered.
"Does Megan Markle have to become a virgin to marry Prince Harry?"
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