Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1954)

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Blackwell • Doris Day is in "Young at Heart" Marty Melcher, her husband, has a lot to do with the way Doris feels these days. “Life” she says, “gets better every day. Too many people look back on past years with regret. It’s a mistake. Take them as they come and that’s the fullest life there is!” WAKE UP AND LIVE ! BY JOHN MAYNARD Happiness is like money in the bank , says Doris Day. It adds up with the years ! • About the chipperest little character in the movie business is Doris Day, a freckled-faced party who has nothing but the warmest sentiments for the whole universe and who is worth to her employers roughly what oil is to Standard Oil. It has been reported of Miss Day — and with the greatest affection and respect — that in the past few years she has deliberately and successfully sought a balanced and happy existence built on a strong faith. “There’s no doubt,” she said recently, “it gets better as it goes along.” “Life?” I asked. “Of course,” said Miss D. “I’m happy now, every living day. So how can I help but be happy in the future? I figure that by the time I’m eighty, I’ll hardly be able to stand it. Happiness, I mean. It’s like money in the bank, it adds up with the years!” Meanwhile, until that long-distant day, Doris Day is the possessor of the nicest working philosophy of the 1954 season, which she expresses very well. “My childhood was very happy,” she says. “And don’t think for a moment that I’m compensating for anything. But — this is true, I know it is — life opens up like a flower as you live it. You keep learning and developing and discovering new avenues for happiness. And each year is better than the ones you left behind. All those past years were great — then. But the new ones are greater. And that’s true because you’re older. You see what I mean, don’t you? It follows an interlocking pattern. Life has to be this way, doesn’t it? It’s a logical sequence.” This kind of optimistic ( Continued on page 76) 44 If you want to copy Doris Day’s new hair-do, why not show this color picture to your favorite hair stylist