For all you Doris Day fans, one of my all-time favorite lines was from the late pianist-raconteur Oscar Levant. While a guest on the old Jack Paar "Tonight" show, he uttered, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."

She began her professional life as a big band singer and had married twice before she began playing the innocent, the Pollyanna or the squeaky clean object of Rock Hudson's advances in a string of popular movies. Through the 1950's she was the Eisenhower era's favorite girl singer/actress and a perfect fit for the times. In later life, retired from show business, she has been an animal rights advocate living in the Big Sur, Monterey County area.