Trivia

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.

Started her own production company, Deluxe Pictures, for which she starred in three films.

Kenyon had an excellent soprano singing voice and often performed publicly with piano accompaniment by Max Rabinovitch.

Her husband, Bronislaw Mylnarski, was the brother-in-law of Artur Rubinstein.

Silent-screen star

Educated at Packer College Institute and at Barnard College majoring in language, literature, and music.

She married and divorced two other men between Milton Sills and Bronislaw Mylinarski.

Son Kenyon Clarence Sills (6 May 1927 - 11 April 1971)

She was originally going to play Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee in The Notorious Lady (1927), but she was too ill to take the role.