Article: DORIS DAY // Perky blond inspires lust in a boy's heart

When you're 34 and you tell someone you're a Doris Day fan, they aren't quite sure what to say. So they hesitate, waiting for you to crack a smile.

To a lot of people, Doris Day is nothing more than a sanctimonious blond who wears her chastity belt too tight and who built a career around one stupid song. And they would probably say that any well-adjusted man under the age of 40 who doesn't still live with his parents should have other interests.

But if those people would look beyond the "virgin" image created by an insidious Hollywood publicity machine, they'd find an actress who has portrayed feisty, independent, career-oriented women who battled the advances of horny men and then, ...

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