A birthday surprise for Doris Day: two more candles
DORIS DAY has received a birthday surprise with the discovery that she is 95, not 93.
The actress and singer known for films, including Pillow Talk and Move Over, Darling, may have thought she was turning 93 today, having pegged her age to a 1924 birth date.
However, a copy of Day’s birth certificate, obtained by the Associated Press, has shown that she was actually born in 1922.
“I’ve always said that age is just a number and I have never paid much attention to birthdays, but it’s great to finally know how old I really am!” Day said. Her spokesman, Charley Cullen Walters, said: “There has long been speculation and rumours about Doris’s age and we get this question a lot. It looks like we finally have the answer.
“The story I have heard the most is that at one point Doris was up for a role when young and her age may have been miswritten on the audition form.
“We don’t know if that’s correct, but if so it could’ve simply stuck for all these years.”
He said Day and actress Betty White had long joked about White being two years older, having been born in January 1922. “Now we know that they are actually just a couple of months apart, and turns out it’s an even bigger exciting landmark than we thought.”
Day’s birth certificate, obtained from Ohio’s Office of Vital Statistics, showed Doris Mary Kappelhoff (the star’s original name) was born on April 3 1922.