Photos: Doris Day | 1922 -2019
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 on a red Schwinn bicycle, late 1950s.
(Hulton Archive / Getty Images)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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An undated Doris Day publicity still.
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A 1949 portrait of Day. For a decade, starting in 1948, the singer had 30 top-20 singles. She recorded almost 30 albums.
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Doris Day in a cashmere sweater with pearls, 1952.
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Doris Day joined Rock Hudson at a July 18, 1985, news conference in Monterey. Day’s frequent film costar died later that year.
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