Doris Day's own story

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 5

Doris Day's own story

C.V.Z. Press 4ssn—Copyrtjjhr. NEW YORK. She’s known as "America's Virgin." "Miss Goody Two Shoes" and the "Girl Next Door," but Doris Day says she staunchly believes a couple should live together before getting married, i United Press International reported. ' That view, along with (others the public might find ; startling. are contained in a ! newly-published biography jof the 51-year-old actress, I‘‘Doris Day, Her Own Story ." i At a news conference Miss I Day explained that she I authorised the book by A. E. 'Hotchner because "1 felt that what I overcame in misfor|tune and how I rose above i those experiences should be i shared with other people. 1 s never give up.” Hotchner, who wrote the 305-page book after interI viewing Miss Day for five months in 1974, said the book j covers the actress’s life from her birth in 1924 until the I present, dealing primarily I with her private life. There was the breakup of her parents' marriage, her being seriously injured at 13 in a car that was hit by a train. I her being on the road singing I with big bands at 16, and i several unhappy marriages iand love affairs, rumoured |and real. “SURVIVOR" : “But,” she said, "despite all of it, I’m a survivor. I don’t regret anything. I’m very happy now living the nicest life I can live and if 1 |can get that in the book, I guess that will give people hope.” On one page, talking about I her marriages, she writes: "If II had lived with Al Jorden for a few weeks, God knows I would never have married him. Nor would 1 have marI tied George Weidler. But 1 I was too young and too inexperienced to understand any of this.” As for her future plans, 1 Miss Day, wearing a gray pantsuit, said: “I don’t know if I want to get married again. 1 don’t see any reason 'to.”