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THE DAY DORIS GOT A FAN
LETTER
■ Maybe this will answer the question of whether a fan letter actually gets to the star. One morning, Dodo opened a letter from a girl (above).
"It was so sweet, so intelligent," says Doris, "that I couldn't put it down. I was so touched I decided to write her a letter." On second thought, she said, "No, better still — why don't I call her?"
So that's how it happened that Elaine Gershbein of Wade Street in Mar Vista, California, answered a phone call.
The voice on the other end said, "This is Doris Day."
This was an unexpected development, to say the least, for Elaine. There followed a silence.
After that, the conversation resumed; about seven minutes of it. Then Doris had an inspiration.
"I thought she was a real nice girl," she says, "and would like to see the studio. So I asked her, 'Would you like to go through Paramount?' There was a little pause, and then she said, 'Do you think I could?' I asked her, then, if she'd like to bring a few of her friends, or family. She said she would, but she'd have to get them together on it. So I told her well, I'd be working and just to call Marty at his office."
Elaine rounded up her mother, sisters and aunts for the studio visit.
Afterwards, Elaine wrote another letter. This time not to Doris, but to a newspaper columnist. In part, she summed it up, "I figured we'd see the studio, but never dreamed we'd talk to Doris. But we did, for almost two hours between scenes. She's nicer and sweeter than I'd expected."
Doris, when asked about the incident, said, "These little things are better left unsaid by publicity men."
When Dodo learned it was Elaine herself who had "planted" the item, it was her turn to be flabbergasted. "You mean she wrote a letter about it?" asked Doris. "Well, what do you know!" —by Helen Gould
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