(born 1924) If Bette Davis and Joan Crawford defined bitchiness on screen, Doris Day (born Doris Von Kappelhoff) came to epitomize virginal niceness for American society in the 1950s and 1960s—a nonsexual tease (ironically often paired with Rock Hudson in romantic comedies) whose independent career and sophistication melted at the altar. Her 1975 autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story, revealed that this charmed comedic life was as far from her own story as it was from that of many other struggling American women in those decades.