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“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
Birthname:
Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff
Hometown:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Hobbies:
Avoiding people, pet rescue
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Doris was born to German Catholic parents in 1922. She had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older. Her father and mother split when she was about ten. At fourteen, she had a dance act with a boy called Jerry Doherty, with whom - after winning $500 in a talent contest - she went to Hollywood. On returning to Cincinnati, aged 16, she was in a terrible car crash which almost ended her dancing career. At 18, she discovered that she could sing and began touring with the Les Brown Band, where she met Al Jordan, who she later married. He turned out to be a violent and abusive husband and, soon after the birth of her son Terry in 1942, she initiated divorce proceedings. In 1946, after entertaining the troops for a couple of years, she met and married George Weidler but this liaison lasted only eight months. In 1948, she made her first film, Romance on the High Seas (1948). While filming for Warner Brothers, she met Martin Melcher, who became her agent and later, on her 29th birthday, her husband. In 1958, her brother Paul died and it was around this time that her husband started to make her sign to do films that she did not want to make. This eventually led to her becoming ill from nervous exhaustion. By the time he died in 1968, Doris was bankrupt and owed thousands of dollars - it turned out that he had squandered virtually all the money she had ever made - but she was eventually awarded $22 million by the courts. She married for the fourth time in 1976 and since her divorce in 1980 has devoted her life to animals.
Dudes she has worked with:
Ronald Reagan, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, James Cagney, Frank Sinatra, Louis Jourdan, Jack Lemmon, Richard Widmark, David Niven, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, James Garner
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