Photos: Doris Day | 1922 -2019

Doris Day on a red Schwinn bicycle, late 1950s.

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May 13, 2019 7:11 AM PT

Doris Day was a leading box office star of the mid-20th century who achieved indelible fame in big-screen bedroom farces and put a sunny face on the working woman in postwar America.

Doris Day leaves her name, foot- and hand-prints in wet concrete at Grauman’s theater, Jan. 19, 1961.

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Doris Day poses with her husband and agent Martin Melcher at their hotel after arriving in London in April 1955.

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Actress-singer Doris Day, shown in this 1968 photo, was a recording star in the 1940s and a popular film star from the early 1950s through the early 1960s.

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