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Doris is warmer, friendlier and nore compassionate today than ever before. She's a more settled girl because she is aappy in her marriage to Marty Melcher. But she has certain convictions which she refuses to tamper wi|h just to snag some publicity for herself
HE INSIDE STORY OF HOLLYWOOD'S NUMBER ONE ENIGMA
oris Day is not si snob
BY PAUL BENEDICT
Success in Hollywood brings fame, fortune, envy, jealausy and its spawn of hogwash and defamation. No star, ao matter how shining her success, no matter how exemplary her private life, is safe from the slings of the professional and amateur detractors who abound in the Bollywoods, ready to take umbrage because a box-office movie doll has the audacity to face a new day without Dowing and genuflecting ten times in their direction.
The current victim of the character assassins happens — as is not at all unusual — to be a young lady not in the .east bit deserving of their malicious attentions. It is the present fashion among frustrated movie star-baiters to oelabor the vivacious songbird of Burbank, Doris Day. She is now being assailed as a bright hope whose warmly praised virtues have allegedly given way to snobbery, temperament, ingratitude and inflation of the cerebellum.
These charges, each and every one of them, may categorically be tossed into the ash can. They are either reckless or malicious flights of fancy, and those who spread
these baseless accusations lend their tongues to slander. Doris Day is a living doll.
There's only one person who would insist that this would approach carrying malarkey to the blarney stone. That pardonable dissenter is Doris Day herself.
"Nobody is perfect," Doris is the first to admit, "least of all me."
Question any of Doris's friends as to whether she's changed now that she's become the hottest thing at Warners since its million-dollar fire several years ago. And this is the kind of answer you'll get:
"Of course she's changed. Doris is a more confident and assured performer than she ever was. Out of that confidence has come even more vitality and vivacity than she displayed in the past. And yes, she's changed as a human being. She's an even warmer, friendlier and more compassionate person than when she started out. She's a more settled girl because she is deeply happy in her marriage and it has given her life (continued on pace 62 i
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