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Doris Day was one of America’s biggest movie stars in the 1950s and 1960s, carrying the ball as a pretty, practical-minded leading lady opposite stars like Rock Hudson and Jimmy Stewart.

She also had great success as a pop singer and a television hostess.

Doris Day started her career as a big band singer in the 1940s and hit it big with the million-selling 1945 single “Sentimental Journey.” In 1948, she began a movie career with a supporting role in the musical Romance on the High Seas (directed by Michael Curtiz).

The same cheery girl-next-door demeanor that had made her a favorite of listeners made her a hit with moviegoers as well.

Day hit her stride in the 1950s with a series of chaste romantic comedies, including Pillow Talk (1959) with Rock Hudson.

(The two re-teamed for Lover Come Back in 1961 and Send Me No Flowers in 1964.) Her singing career was just as hot as her acting career, and”Que Sera, Sera,” her hit from