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■ One afternoon, Doris Day left her studio dressing room and started walking over to the set.
Then the pain hit her.
It hit her like the shock of an unexpected breaker in an angry sea and she was drowning with it. Her heart was a hammer and she couldn't catch her breath and she was drowning in a sea of pain . . .
She had just taken the first step down the road to a hell that she was to live in for almost two years.
A hell of fear ... the kind of fear that twists your gut.
Then, as suddenly as it had come, the pain was gone.
She drew a shuddering breath, stood for a few minutes to make sure her knees wouldn't buckle with the first step— and told herself that she hadn't felt anything at all. It hadn't happened.
Except that it came again and again, while her heart missed beats and her breath disappeared.
Cancer!
The word came flaming into her mind one day and she couldn't get it out. Cancer. That must be what she had. But it wasn't cancer; it was fear.
Two years ago, Doris thought she was dying of cancer. Actually, she was HARRIET FRANKLIN
suffering from fear. Oh, the pain was real enough; it hurt.
But it was the fear in her mind, not cancer, that caused the pains in her body — plus the suffering she has endured in her life so far,, and the heartbreaks she has lived through.
Fear . . .
It was two years ago when Doris Day — movie star, wife, mother — first began being unable to catch her breath.
She couldn't imagine what that was all about, so she ignored it. For one thing she was a most sincere Christian Scientist and she could not believe in illness. Besides she wasn't ill. She just couldn't catch her breath.
She was under terrific pressure at that time, as any top star always is. Her Wabner contract was winding up. She didn't know (Continued on page 93)