Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1955)

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She’s a warmhearted girl whose grief can be as poignant as that of any other human being. That’s part of Doris’ make-up and part of her charm. She feels intensely, and she’ll give all of herself. She’ll never hide part of herself under a mask. You always know where you stand with Doris. “Another thing is, she’ll grieve, but she won’t brood. Sooner or later her natural buoyancy always breaks through. She’s quite a girl.” Marty’s and Doris’ own romance started slowly, blossoming into love through mutual trust, friendship and understanding. The first evening they spent together was following a recording session to which Marty had taken Doris reluctantly to help out his partner, A1 Levy, who was then Doris’ agent. Neither of them was in a mood for romance. They found they liked each other’s company, though, and pretty soon Martv got into the habit of dropping by Doris’ home and having dinner with the family. Terry, Doris’ son, seemed to take a shine to Marty immediately. Marty has since adopted him and feels not in the least like a stepfather. Marty and Doris were married on Doris’ birthday, April 3, 1950. Doris’ mother had to shoo them out of the house for their honeymoon. They made it brief. Both were longing to settle down with each other. At long last they’d found peace. Peace — with all her exuberance and all her success — wasn’t one of the things Miss Day had an oversupply of before her marriage to Marty Melcher. A trooper since her teens, she’d been on the move almost constantly, leading a restless though frequently exciting life. Even before her near-fatal automobile accident at the age of fifteen she’d played a series of summer bookings, teaming up with her school chum Jerry Doherty in a kids’ comedy dance routine. She expected to do big things as a dancer, but the accident at a railroad crossing in a car crowded with youngsters shattered those dreams. The year she spent in a plaster cast trying to get well and back on her feet wasn’t exactly a peaceful one either. For a long time it looked as though she’d never walk again except on crutches, or at best only with a bad limp. The idea of becoming a dancer, of ever again expressing with her feet the rhythm she’d felt in her blood since she was a baby seemed definitely out. But Doris, a born performer, was irrepressible. If she couldn’t dance, she’d sing. At first she only sang for her own pleasure to give an outlet to the exuberance and rhythm that bubbled up again despite the setback. Then a trend of her mother’s who happened to be a singing teacher took 1 in hand and worked on her range. Foi teen months after her accident, si hobbling on crutches, she was back js business at the old stand, the local dan< fli in her home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. E i® where she’d once hoofed, she now sang, a 1 sang well enough to attract the attention (111 professionals. A song plugger, Danny Eng iy. recommended her to radio station WLV «1 voice coach, Grace Raine, who in tu (la recommended her to Barney Rapp who v ste looking for a singer for his band. “I can’t use that name,” Rapp said wh sji he was told about Doris Kappellhoff. “E li send over the girl. Maybe I can use he if Doris sang for him “Day After Day,” w fc hired on the spot and changed her name “Day” after the lucky song. Doris was mighty happy over that fi: 'tc break; but she couldn’t stand still; she h 111 to move on. Always on the go, she we from Barney Rapp to Bob Crosby, a finally to Les Brown. Then came a ball; “Sentimental Journey,” that sold over 1 million platters and spread her fame fre " coast to coast. The next step was a succes *) ful screen test for Mike Curtiz, a starri role in “Romance on the High Seas,” anc Warners contract. 1 Success came to Doris fast after that, l happiness still eluded her. Mom and Ter moved out to Hollywood at last and s found a great measure of contentment, j perhaps without being fully conscious of herself, she felt incomplete not being ma ried. The famous grin came back prel quickly, and the exuberance, but the inr glow was added only when Marty Melch entered her life. “Marty is a very kind person. That’s w! I love perhaps most in him,” Doris told i when she, in turn, spoke to me alone. “ times he’ll make a pretense of being cyr cal, but underneath it he’s one of the sol est, gentlest men I’ve ever known.” Doris needs kindness, always has need it. Even as a child, she often used to wa up crying, plagued by nightmares and e phantasies conjured up by the dark. Wh she ran into her parents’ bedroom for i assurance her father would send her aw; “Doke,” he’d say. “You go back to bed. A let’s have no more of this nonsense.” Th she’d stand shivering in the hall, waiti for her mother to come tiptoeing out a comfort her in her arms. “Terry knew Marty was all right t I minute he laid eyes on him,” Doris co tinued. “Kids seem to have an instinct 1 that sort of thing. Marty is a wonder: father to Terry — and a wonderful husba to me. “Sure I was in love before. I knew hea: i ache and misery and thought that was 1 way it had to be and always was. I w wrong. Since I’ve known Marty I learned that love really is the most bea tiful experience two people can share. “It takes a little growing up. This isn’t 1 stuff. But most of all you have to be luc and find a guy who’s good, patient a sweet, a guy who’ll never hurt you; sore one who cares about your welfare and ha piness as much as he does about his ov and you about his. Never mind all this t; about friendship, security, understands In my book, that’s love.” The End Coming in the March Issue of Photoplay TWO OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST ROMANTIC STORIES OF THE YEAR a Marlon Brando's bombshell romance in Bandol • “ I'm in love with a wonderful Guy," says Sheila Connolly Madison ORDER YOUR COPY NOW AT THE NEWSSTANDS, ON SALE, FEBRUARY 8