Around this same time, she landed a much bigger gig with the touring Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She began singing instead and, while still just a teenager, scored a job with the local dance band of Barney Rapp, who redubbed her Doris Day, after her number "Day After Day." She also met Al Jorden, a trombonist in Rapp's band and a temperamental character whom she disliked initially, but whom she eventually agreed to date. A tomboy in her earlier years, by adolescence she had developed a penchant for dance, but those aspirations were shelved when a car accident left her with a compound fracture of one leg and a tough 14-month rehabilitation. In spite of the family's Catholicism, her parents divorced when Doris was only 12, due to Frederick's philandering. She was born Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in the Cincinnati, OH, suburb of Evanston, to Alma and Frederick von Kappelhoff and was the youngest of three children in a troubled household. Her résumé composed an American archetype - the pristine, bright-eyed sweetheart of America's 1950s. 1 female box-office star and the epitome of the girl next door.
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