Doris Day, the legendary singer and actress best known for co-starring in a series of 1960s romantic motion picture comedies with Rock Hudson and who had hit records during the 1940s and 1950s, passed away on Monday at age 97.
Miss Day passed away at her Carmel Valley, California home of complications from pneumonia.
Cincinnati-born Doris began her career as a big-band vocalist, most prominently in the 1940s with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
After starring in a series of movies, amongst those, "Romance on the High Seas," the 1955 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much," with Jimmy Stewart (in which she sang the Oscar-winning song "Que Sera Sera," which would go on to be her theme song), and "Teachers Pet," Doris starred in a series of 1960s sex comedies that made her a box-office champion.
In 1968, she began starring as a widowed mother in the CBS TV Network sitcom The Doris Day Show, a series that reflected the attitudes of the networks during its' five-year run.
In that first season, the widowed mom lived in the country with two kids and the family dog; by the second city, mom still lived in the country but commuted to San Francisco to work for a news magazine; by the third season, mom, kids, and the dog moved into an apartment in Frisco; for the final two seasons, perhaps spurred by the success of the Mary Tyler Moore Show (and maybe by the cancellation of CBS' remaining rural-based sitcoms), Doris' character was transformed into a swinging single, working for a weekly newspaper.
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