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- Birth nameDoris Margaret Kenyon
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- The daughter of a poet, Doris Kenyon made her stage and screen debuts in 1915. She was often cast as a pleasant heroine in many silent films. She co-starred with popular silent-era actors like Rudolph Valentino and her future husband Milton Sills. Due to her stage experience she made a smooth transition to sound films. She could still be seen on television in the mid-'60s.
- IMDb mini biography by: A. Nonymous
- SpousesBronislaw Mylnarski(January 28, 1947 - October 8, 1971) (his death)Albert David Lasker(October 28, 1938 - June 6, 1939) (divorced)Arthur Hopkins (Syracuse Real Estate Broker)(June 14, 1933 - February 28, 1934) (divorced)Milton Sills(October 12, 1926 - September 15, 1930) (his death, 1 child)
- ChildrenKenyon Clarence Sills
- RelativesGeorgianne Sills(Grandchild)
- Doris Day's mother was a big fan of Doris, and named her daughter after her. By coincidence in 1975, at the time Day published her autobiography, they were neighbors on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.
- For most of her career she lived in a Spanish-revival mansion in Brentwood Heights. The gardens were home to a collection of around 150 species of trees, according to fan magazines.
- She was with Paramount Pictures for the studio's first dramatic, all-talking movie, Interference (1928).
- Was a protégé of Victor Herbert.
- Her father, Rev. Dr. James Benjamin Kenyon, was a protégé of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- [in Hollywood Filmograph, January 14th, 1933] Men just cannot stand the adulation which vast audiences show them. Just see what happens to men when they become idolized. Women seem to be able to take careers more easily. They grow with their success. Family life becomes fuller; they don't spoil their children by being with them over-much o mollycoddle them. Women should have some outside interests.
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