She sang in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist Churches in Brooklyn, New York.

[3] Kenyon was cast opposite actor George Arliss in two films: Alexander Hamilton (1931) and Voltaire (1933).

In the autumn of 1935, Doris appeared with Ramon Novarro in the play A Royal Miscarriage in London.

Kenyon's performances as a singer grew out of an evening in New York when a manager of concert artists heard her sing at home for some friends.

Her "Lyrical Silhouettes" tour in 1933 included "characterizations presented in a half-dozen or more foreign languages and dialects.

Doris Kenyon died on September 1, 1979, at her home in Beverly Hills, California of cardiac arrest.

Many years later, Day purchased a home in Beverly Hills that was "a few houses away from [Kenyon's], on the very same street.