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American Legends: The Life of Doris Day

American Legends: The Life of Doris Day

Charles River

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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*Includes pictures. *Includes Day's quotes about her life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls - you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, 'No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.'" - Doris Day A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It goes without saying that few people have a career spanning 8 decades, yet that claim to fame is occupied by the legendary Doris Day, who got her start in show business as a singer in a big band in 1939 and has not let up since. From there, Day went on to record dozens of albums and hundreds of songs, winning a countless number of awards on the way to being one of the 20th century's most popular singers. One of those recognitions came just a few years ago in 2011, when Day, by that time nearing 90 years old, released a new album that charted 9th in the UK Top 40 Albums, making her the oldest singer ever with that distinction. Her musical career would've been impressive enough, but Doris Day is just as well known today for her film career, which wasn't so bad itself. Though her time in Hollywood was much shorter in comparison to her music career, she nevertheless managed to reach the top in that industry as well. As one of the most popular actresses of the '60s, Day was the biggest box office draw in Hollywood in the early half of that decade, and the only woman among the Top 10. In the process of making nearly 40 movies, Day would eventually be recognized as the highest grossing actress in history, and at the same time she was good enough at her craft to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Amazingly, despite her incredible success in both music and film, Day eventually found herself bankrupt due to the mismanagement of her money by her husband, compelling her to reinvent herself as the host of a popular television sitcom. Perhaps not surprisingly, Day excelled in this field as well, making The Doris Day Show one of the most popular shows on television for several years at the end of the '60s. American Legends: The Life of Doris Day examines the life and career of one of the entertainment industry's biggest stars. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Doris Day like never before, in no time at all.
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Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee

Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee

Melissa Wolfe

D Giles Ltd
2020
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A major new book about Doris Lee, one of the top female artists - indeed among the top figurative artists, regardless of gender - in the American art world from the mid-1930s through the 1950s. Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904?1983). Lee was one of the most recognised artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals a remarkable ability to merge the reduction of abstraction with the appeal of the everyday. In so doing, she offers one of the very rare examples of a coherent visual identity that successfully bridged the various artistic "camps" that formed with the shift in the art world in the post-World War II era. Doris Lee exploded onto the national scene in 1935 when her painting Thanksgiving was awarded the Art Institute of Chicago's Logan Prize and instigated the Sanity in Art movement in protest. Two years later, her painting Catastrophe was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple Pleasures explores this initial national recognition in the 1930s within the context of American Scene painting, and traces the artist's thematic interest in the simple objects and scenes of the everyday through her career. It also examines the influence of the rise in abstraction during the late 1940s and 1950s, and the particular way in which this abstraction found resonance with Lee's long-held interest in, and collections of, folk and non-western art. During this post-war period, Lee, like many of her American Scene colleagues, found lucrative work in the heyday of commercial advertising. Lee's commercial commissions for patrons such as American Tobacco Company, Life magazine, Abbott Laboratories, and Associated American Artists are especially compelling in both their populist accessibility and in their deceptively sophisticated abstraction. Sixty-five works by the artist span the 1930s through the 1960s and are comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, and commissioned commercial designs in fabric and pottery. Included are advertisements by companies that commissioned images from Lee, and photographs that contextualise the artist's work within the Woodstock artist's community. AUTHORS: Barbara L. Jones is chief curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, and the author of Samuel Rosenberg: Portrait of a Painter (2003). Melissa Wolfe is curator of American Art, St. Louis Art Museum, and co-editor of Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019). John Fagg is professor of American Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, and author of 'That Abused Word: Genre': The 1930s Genre Painting Revival in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 (2011). Tom Wolf is professor of Art History at Bard College, NY and leading Yasuo Kuniyoshi scholar. 157 colour illustrations
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Almost Abducted: A Kate and Doris Mystery

Almost Abducted: A Kate and Doris Mystery

Trisha Durrant

Cozy Cat Press
2017
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A harrowing flight back from Hawaii leaves newly divorced, Kate Conley, with a throbbing headache and a sassy senior who is stranded at the airport when her ride fails to appear. As a former Girl Scout, Kate feels obligated to help the old lady, whose name she learns is Doris. When a complete stranger tries to force Doris into his car, Kate rushes forward to foil the attempted abduction. After that, what can Kate do but take the shaken Doris home with her?Thus starts a long string of adventures and a thoroughly unique friendship between two women of very different ages and backgrounds. The would-be kidnapper is just the beginning and Kate soon realizes that Doris is hiding a dark secret--one that she refuses to disclose.An added complication is Kate's contentious relationship with hot and handsome, local detective Sam Williamson. But with the help of her neighbors and friends from the local library where she volunteers, plus a theater group she reluctantly joins, Kate works to build a post-divorce life for herself and help Doris determine why she was ALMOST ABDUCTED.
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Body in the Barn: A Kate and Doris Mystery

Body in the Barn: A Kate and Doris Mystery

Trisha Durrant

Cozy Cat Press
2017
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A dear friend of Kate and Doris seems to be the chief suspect in a brutal murder, in which a bloodied body is found in a barn. The suspect disappears and Doris, who seems to know more than she should, refuses to discuss the case with Kate. In addition, Kate's deepening relationship with hot and handsome Shelbyville police detective, Sam Williamson, hits an obstacle when he discovers she will be spending the summer with her old high school sweetheart working on an archaeological dig in southern Indiana. Sam and Kate break up. Sam, to Kate's chagrin, immediately finds a new love interest and Kate discovers that her old high school sweetheart has problems of his own. Doris eventually confides in Kate and together they solve the mystery of The Body in the Barn.
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Sagan om Någon Annan : När Doris gick på tur och blev så där väldans arg

Sagan om Någon Annan : När Doris gick på tur och blev så där väldans arg

Camilla Berneklint

BoD
2023
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Visst har väl även du någon gång sagt eller tänkt: -Det var inte jag! Det var Någon Annan! Eller kanske: -Det vill inte jag göra. Det får Någon Annan göra? Men, vem är egentligen den där "Någon Annan"? Doris hoppas på att få träffa Någon Annan igen vid den stora rödgranen. Men, allt blir inte alls som hon tänkt sig... Detta är den andra boken om de små och stora äventyr som Doris och den ivrige hunden Sune upplever i skogen där Någon Annan bor. Serien består av berättelser med fokus på lärande för hållbar utveckling och vänder sig till såväl barn som vuxna barn.
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Final cut : att göra en Doris

Final cut : att göra en Doris

Lisa Lindén; Agneta Slonawski; Gunnar Bergdahl

Bokförlaget Korpen
2021
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Dorismanifestet är världens första feministiska filmmanifest. Ett manifest som kräver jämställdhet, både framför och bakom kameran. Att göra en Doris är att sätta igång och hålla ut. Att våga ifrågasätta, agera och genomföra aktioner. Det är vad Doris Film har gjort de senaste tjugo åren i Sverige, men även på Island, i Ryssland och i många andra länder. Boken Final Cut vänder sig till dig som vill veta mer om kvinnors organisering och om hur Doris Film startade. Boken speglar en lustfylld och lärorik resa som började i Göteborg. Ett arbete som har varit en viktig del i att göra den svenska filmbranschen mer jämställd. Medverkar gör Astrid Askberger, Gunnar Bergdahl, Jenny Brusk, Gunilla Burstedt, Catti Edfeldt, Elena Emelianova, Anna Eriksson, Annika Hellström, Silva Hildbrand, Aase Högfeldt, Susann Jonsson, Lisa Lindén, Dögg Mósesdottír, Anne Otto, Lis Svensson Brandberg samt Gertrud Åström.
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A Life Made with Artists: Doris Littrell and the Oklahoma Indian Art Scene

A Life Made with Artists: Doris Littrell and the Oklahoma Indian Art Scene

Julie Pearson Little Thunder

Roadrunner Press
2016
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Some are born to paint. Others, to admire. And a few are born with the eye to spot great artistic talent and the passion to bring it to the world. Doris Littrell was always one of the latter. Whether tromping through mud to track down a promising canvas or whispering the needed word of encouragement in a struggling painter's ear, she made her life with Native American artists. And in doing so, this longtime Oklahoma gallery owner helped make possible the contemporary Oklahoma Indian Art Movement. This is her true story--told in her own words, in the words of the artists she championed, and those of the collectors who admired them both--graced by 32 pages of the art that Littrell loved so much.
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The Cook Who Defended Pearl Harbor: A Graphic Novel Biography of Doris Dorie Miller

The Cook Who Defended Pearl Harbor: A Graphic Novel Biography of Doris Dorie Miller

Shawn Pryor

Capstone Press
2025
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On December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia battleship, became an unlikely hero during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Without any formal training, Miller took control of an antiaircraft gun, shooting down enemy planes and saving countless lives. In this action-packed graphic novel, relive the brave actions that earned Miller the Navy Cross, making him the first African American to receive this honor. With fast-paced text and full-color illustrations, this must-read nonfiction graphic novel showcases one of history's greatest barrier breakers.
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The Cook Who Defended Pearl Harbor: A Graphic Novel Biography of Doris Dorie Miller

The Cook Who Defended Pearl Harbor: A Graphic Novel Biography of Doris Dorie Miller

Shawn Pryor

Capstone Press
2025
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On December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia battleship, became an unlikely hero during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Without any formal training, Miller took control of an antiaircraft gun, shooting down enemy planes and saving countless lives. In this action-packed graphic novel, relive the brave actions that earned Miller the Navy Cross, making him the first African American to receive this honor. With fast-paced text and full-color illustrations, this must-read nonfiction graphic novel showcases one of history's greatest barrier breakers.
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