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).