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Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning American singer, actress known as Doris Day. A vivacious blonde with a wholesome image, Day was one of the most prolific actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars in Hollywood. She has 39 films to her credit, as well as over 75 hours of television work, and has recorded well over 650 songs. Doris was born in Evanston, a neighborhood within the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA to Alma Sophia Welz and William/Wilhelm Kappelhoff. All four of her grandparents were German immigrants, and at least one ancestor was Dutch. Her parents' marriage failed due to her father's infidelities, some of which Day witnessed taking place in the family home. Though the family was Roman Catholic, her parents divorced. The youngest of three children, she had two brothers: Richard, who died before she was born, and Paul, a few years older. She was named after silent movie actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother admired. Growing up in the 1930s, Day developed an interest in dance. By the mid-1930s, she formed a dance duo that performed locally in Cincinnati, until a car accident on October 13, 1937 damaged her legs and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer. However, while recovering, Day took up singing. Soon she began to take lessons, and at the age of 17 began performing locally. It was while working for local bandleader Barney Rapp in 1939 or 1940 that she adopted the stage name "Day" as an alternative to "Kappelhoff," at his suggestion. Rapp felt her surname was too long, and he told her he thought it sounded "too Jewish." The first song she had performed for him was Day After Day, and her stage name was taken from that. After working with Rapp, Day worked with a number of other bandleaders including Jimmy James, Bob Crosby, and Les Brown. It was while working with Brown that Day scored her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey," which was released in early 1945. It soon became an anthem of the desire of World War II demobilizing troops to return home. This song is still associated with Day, and was re-recorded by her on several occasions, as well as being included in her 1971 television special.