Doris Day Renna went by the name Doris Day during her five-year Hollywood career. The bonny ingenue had leads in a handful of minor low-budget B pictures for "poverty row" studios Republic and Producers Releasing Corporation between 1939 and 1941. They weren't especially well-received, and Day was reduced to bit parts until she retired from film in 1943; by the time the more-noted Doris Day debuted in 1948, she had been virtually forgotten. In the early 1950s, however, some of her films were re-released in a sly attempt to cash in on the nascent popularity of the "new" Doris Day, which led to many years of confusions among film fans. These days her pictures are seldom seen, possibly even lost in some cases, which has led some film historians to suggest that the more famous Doris Day might have made an effort to have them "deep-sixed." Details regarding her life and career are nearly non-existent.
