HOLLYWOOD doesn't like Doris Day because she's become such a perfectionist that, in dealing with others, she's prone to expect perfection, too. Waitresses in the studio commissary find her difficult to please. She'll send food back to the kitchen because, "it isn't cooked properly." Sometimes she sniffs suspiciously and asks, "Are you sure it's fresh?"
Her clothes sense is good, but she has such definite likes and dislikes it frustrates fashion experts when they try to create something original for her. Once she says "no" there's little hope of dissuading her. She's such a meticulous housewife, her standards challenge the servant situation. As one departing domestic put it: "Miss Day is nice to know and difficult to work for. She even finds dust-where there ain't no dust!"
Hairdressers, make-up artists, wardrobe women and her set crews believe she's changed. Director Michael Curtiz, who discovered her, believes she's changed. "Hollywood is filled with ungratefuls," generalized the man who gave Doris her big break in "Romance On The High Seas." Recently he wanted her for "The Jazz Singer," but she refused the role. So instead of remaining friends, they became "friendly"-and Peggy Lee played the part.
She was easy-going, cooperative and skeptical of no one when she first arrived in Hollywood. Life to her was one long irresponsible ball. According to co-workers, she's gradually grown contradictory, provocative and inconsistent. She's the one who makes or breaks the rules. Her rules.
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