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 '39 and '41. They weren't especially well received, and Day was reduced to bit parts until retiring from film in 1943. By the time the more noted Doris Day debuted in 1948, she had been virtually forgotten. In the early '50s, however, some of her films would end up being re-released, a sly attempt to cash-in on the nascent popularity of the "new" Doris Day which led to many years of confusion among film fans. Presently, 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.