10 Actors Who Retired Way Too Early

So this one is a little murky.

Doris Day was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s, starring in films such as Calamity Jane, Pillow Talk and Move Over, Darling. Due in large part to her talent with both singing and acting, naturally she was a smash hit of the time. Groovy.

After the death of her third husband Martin Melcher on April 20th, 1968, Day discovered that Melcher and his business partner and "adviser" (for lack of a better word) Jerome Bernard Rosenthal, who served as Day's attorney since as early as 1949, managed to throw away all of her earnings, leaving her in what seemed like a bottomless pit of debt.

Day also learned that the pair had her committed without her knowledge to star on a television program, called the Doris Day Show, an experience she hated.

While Day did file suit against Rosenthal in 1969, and won in 1974, she wouldn't receive compensation until 1979, and would fulfill her television obligations basically to pay the bills, much to her chagrin. By 1975 though, shortly after the suit, she had announced her retirement from acting. The damage was done and it really is a shame to think about what might have been with better circumstances.