{"id":2090,"date":"2024-10-24T02:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T02:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2024-10-24T02:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T02:12:56","slug":"2090-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Doris Day, my grandma and me: A reflection on family on the movie star\u2019s Day!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header article-header\">\n<div class=\"header-title-area\">\n<div class=\"headline-area\">\n<div class=\"headlines\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><img class=\"size-article_inline aligncenter\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 15px;\" sizes=\"(max-width: 40em) 620px,(min-width: 40em) and (max-width: 50em) 780px,(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 65em) 810px,(min-width: 65em) and (max-width: 80em) 1280px,(min-width: 80em) 1860px,1860px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2019\/04\/02\/2ECEK4NX3VBP3ACOCYFF5VXUME.jpg?w=620 620w,https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2019\/04\/02\/2ECEK4NX3VBP3ACOCYFF5VXUME.jpg?w=780 780w,https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2019\/04\/02\/2ECEK4NX3VBP3ACOCYFF5VXUME.jpg?w=810 810w,https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2019\/04\/02\/2ECEK4NX3VBP3ACOCYFF5VXUME.jpg?w=1200 1280w,https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migration\/2019\/04\/02\/2ECEK4NX3VBP3ACOCYFF5VXUME.jpg?w=1200 1860w\" alt=\"Actress Doris Day is shown in costume for the 1957...\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"header-features default\">\n<div id=\"mng-gallery-6b1184d8403195a1e84dd21f1a0f9c7b\" class=\"article-slideshow\">\n<div class=\"mng-gallery-list draggable\">\n<div class=\"mng-gallery-track\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper mng-gallery-image-load-listener-added\">By the time I was born on April 3, 1987, Doris Day was a certified senior citizen, celebrating her 65th birthday. Her career in Hollywood had been over for over a decade and she recluded to a quiet life in Carmel, Calif., dedicating her days to aiding animals in her adopted community.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"body-copy\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article Links\">\n<p>Miss Day and I celebrate our birthdays on the same day, and thanks to our commonality, she\u2019s left an indelible impact on my upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>The very first classic film I ever saw was \u201cTea For Two\u201d (1950), starring Day and Gordon MacRae, by my grandmother; I was less than 5 years old. Something about Day\u2019s inviting smile and golden, Technicolor locks of hair, singing the same song my grandmother would sing whenever she lit a kettle on the stove, has stayed with me into adulthood as I find myself humming the same tune in kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe shares the same birthday as you, don\u2019t you know,\u201d my grandmother once said during a home screening of a Day movie. \u201cShe does?\u201d I replied excitedly and demanded, \u201cwell, then we must celebrate her birthday, too!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"s2nPlayer k-TL9G3gp2\" data-type=\"float\" data-s2n-api=\"dfm_stn_player_script_id_TL9G3gp2\" data-embed=\"true\" data-stn-player=\"TL9G3gp2\">\n<div class=\"shadow-root-voltax-mp\">\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-placeholder voltax-mp-placeholder-anchored floating\" data-is-split-view=\"false\">\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-container-anchored\">\n<div class=\"titleBar title-anchor\"><span class=\"title\"><span class=\"\">Top Videos Offset Answers The Web&#8217;s Most Searched Questions<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"closeButtonWrapper\"><span class=\"floatClose material-icons\">close<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-video-wrapper-in-place\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-video-player-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-video-player\"><video class=\"voltax-mp-video-tag-player\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/a2ca48ae-fcad-4c88-be86-88337ef21873\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><\/div>\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-loader-screen\">\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-loader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"voltax-mp-controls-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"titlesContainer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"qualitiesContainer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"controlbarContainer\">\n<div class=\"progressBar\"><input class=\"\" type=\"range\" value=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"playState play material-icons hoverable\" title=\"Play\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"muteState material-icons hoverable\" title=\"Mute\">volume_off<\/div>\n<div class=\"volumeState\"><input class=\"\" type=\"range\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"timeDisplay hoverable\" title=\"Time Left\">-00:00<\/div>\n<div class=\"qualities hoverable material-icons\" title=\"Quality Selector\">sd<\/div>\n<div class=\"subtitles hoverable material-icons\" title=\"Subtitles\">closed_captions<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen hoverable material-icons\" title=\"Enter Fullscreen\">fullscreen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe id=\"mplayer-aps-friendly-iframe-0-IhKx-0frk-3TBD-d6op\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From age 6 onward, celebrating my birthday with a Doris Day movie became tradition in my household, starting with \u201cWith Six, You Get Eggroll\u201d (1968), starring Day and Brian Keith. In the birthdays to follow, my family gathered around the TV to view \u201cThe Pajama Game\u201d (1957), \u201cThe Man Who Knew Too Much\u201d (1956), \u201cThat Touch of Mink\u201d (1962), \u201cLullaby of Broadway\u201d (1951), \u201cThe West Point Story\u201d (1950), and \u201cPillow Talk\u201d (1959). Each birthday ended with a cake on the kitchen table and candles being lit. My grandmother would jokingly say \u201cand a Happy Birthday to Doris too\u201d each time before I\u2019d blow out the candles.<\/p>\n<p>In my household, Day was more than a face on screen or a song vibrating from our stereo. She was a bonding experience, an heirloom passed down from my grandmother to me. She was an idyllic symbol of her generation that represented a fantasy she would never obtain herself.<\/p>\n<p>Through her films, I learned more about my grandmother\u2019s own life. \u201cI remember seeing this film in the theaters with Anthony,\u201d she remembered fondly of her deceased husband and my grandfather who I never had a chance to know. \u201cI had always dreamed of being a showgirl,\u201d she once said to me during my 12th birthday screening of \u201cThe Glass Bottom Boat: (1966). \u201cI never told anyone that before,\u201d as she turned to me with a shy grin on her face. I felt special that day to have her confide in me something so personal.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my grandmother recently died. This will be my first birthday without her. I\u2019m not confident I\u2019ll have the emotional strength to watch a Doris Day movie without her, but I\u2019m grateful for the important personal memories Miss Day gave to me \u2014 memories she\u2019ll never know exist. It comforts me, however, that Doris is still living on this earth. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever get to thank her for the bond she created between my grandmother and me, but she\u2019s always welcomed at my house for birthday cake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I was born on April 3, 1987, Doris Day was a certified senior citizen, celebrating her 65th birthday. Her career in Hollywood had been over for over a decade and she recluded to a quiet life in Carmel, Calif., dedicating her days to aiding animals in her adopted community. 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