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Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff) is a legendary singer and actress from 1940s to the 1970s. She was one of the best loved actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1968, her husband and manager passed away, and she discovered he had squandered all her money! She sued a man who her husband had invested with, and she was awarded $22 million, and she never made another movie, but she had "The Doris Day Show" on TV from 1968 to 1973. Since 1980, she has devoted her life to helping animals with the Doris Day Animal League. Some of her movies include: The Man Who Knew Too Much, Pillow Talk (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Love Me or Leave Me, Lover Come Back, The Pajama Game, and many more!ANDGordon MacRae was born Albert Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey in 1921, but his parents moved to Syracuse, New York when he was young. His father was a radio star, "Wee Willie" MacRae, and his mother was a concert pianist. MacRae did not inherit their musical talents, because he was adopted, but he WAS very talented in the arts in school, being in the drama club, singing in choir, and playing several musical instruments (and he also played many sports as well!). At 18, he won a local singing talent contest and the prize was getting to sing at the 1939 New York World's Fair for several weeks. Next, Big Band leader Horace Heidt hired MacRae as a vocalist. A couple of years later, MacRae met Sheila Margaret Stephens, an amateur singer and actress, and they were married (he had just turned 20 and she was just 16, but World War II was about to begin, and once it did, McRae enlisted). After the war, the couple soon had two children (and later two more), and MacRae began singing in revues on Broadway, while his wife remained home taking care of their children. In 1947, he was signed by Capitol Records, and the next year he starred on the radio show "The Railroad Hour", which had operettas and musical dramatizations, all featuring McRae and different leading ladies. Later that year, he was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. and among other movies, he made five very popular movies that paired him with beautiful young Doris Day. In 1955, he had his best role ever, as Curly in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma, opposite Shirley Jones as Laurey. The following year, filming began on Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, and Frank Sinatra was intended to play the lead role of Billy Bigelow. But Sinatra, who had a notoriously short fuse, blew up when he found out (on the first day of filming) that they needed to shoot each scene twice, once for regular CinemaScope and once for CinemaScope 55, and he quit! In just three days, the producers signed McRae, and even though he had not played the part, he did a great job (and ironically, the cameramen found a way to only shoot the scenes once!). After two of the greatest movie musical successes ever, MacRae seemed poised for a long distinguished career, and yet after Carousel, he essentially retired from movies completely, appearing in two movies two decades later. He spent much of the remainder of his life performing in dinner theater (often with his wife), and appearing on TV and radio. What happened? MacRae had become an alcoholic early in his career, and it spiraled out of control just when he reached the height of his fame (he later revealed he had been picked up for drunk driving during the filming of "Carousel"). By the time he got his drinking under control, the era of movie musicals had passed. In 1967, he and his wife divorced, and he remarried and had another child, and his ex-wife went on the replace Audrey Meadows as Alice in the last version of The Honeymooners. Two of his children, Meredith and Heather became actresses. MacRae had a very notable career, but he starred in just 14 movies in his prime, and one can only wonder how much more he might have accomplished had his personal problems not derailed him!ANDSheila MacRae (also known as "Sheila Stephens") was a popular nightclub entertainer and an actress from the 1950s to the 1990s. Her best film roles were in Caged, Sex and the Single Girl, and Backfire. She was the wife of Gordon MacRae, and she is perhaps best remembered for replacing Audrey Meadows as Alice in TV's "The Honeymooners"

Important Added Info: Note that this contract page has been personally autographed (signed) by THIRTEEN people: Doris Day (who signed with her married name, "Doris Day Melcher"), Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae, Martin Melcher, Samuel P. Norton, William C. Eckstine, Jack Sher, Jerome B. Rosenthal, Marvin Miller, Bea Norton, Carolle Eckstine, Madeline Sher, AND Elizabeth Miller! Our consignor is a longtime dealer who acquired this signed item among many other purchases in his inventory, and he does not have a certificate of authenticity, but we believe the signature to likely be authentic.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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