The flight attendant actress and executive producer Kaley Cuoco is developing a limited series on Doris Day based on the 1976 biography of AE Hotchner Doris Day: Your Own History. Cuoco will star.
Yes, Norman Productions and Warner Bros. Television, from Cuoco, are joining Berlanti Production again after Flight attendant. No networks are connected yet.
Hotchner’s biography is a series of interviews with the Oscar nominee Conversation pillow actress, who was also a singer and animal rights activist. Day lived to 97 and passed away in 2019. She started working as a singer at the show biz before entering musicals in the 1940s. A big box-office star from the 1950s and 1960s, her credits in the feature film included Calamity Jane, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The pajama game among many others.
During the 1970s, a TV career, which she despised, saved her from financial ruin after her third (of four) husbands left her in debt after he died in 1968. Day became an animal activist in the 1980s. 1970. Like Day, Cuoco is also a champion and supporter of the causes of animal welfare.
EPs in Doris Day are Cuoco; Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden of Berlanti Productions. Co-EPs are Suzanne McCormack of Yes, Norman and Bob Bashara, the manager of Doris Day Estate. The consulting producers are Jim Pierson, who worked with Day, and Tim Hotchner, the son of the biographer.
THE Doris Day The project is the latest in Cuoco’s exclusive general agreement with Yes, Norman to develop a new original lineup with Warner Bros. Television Group. She extended her collaboration with Studio by signing a new exclusive multi-year general contract in 2019.
Cuoco unveiled the Doris Day project in a Variety pre-Golden Globes resource.