After this film was released,
Doris Day was deluged with mail from fans attacking her, a Christian Scientist, for playing a lewd woman who smoked, drank, and wore scant costumes in the nightclub scenes. Day cared about everyone who was disturbed by her characterization, and she answered every piece of mail, explaining the necessity for realism, and that it was essential to separate actress
Doris Day from character
Ruth Etting. She felt that as a performer, she had the same responsibility to the public that a politician has to the electorate.
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