Doris Day

Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned 75 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice. Day began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Her recording of "Que Sera, Sera" became known as her signature song and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Day made her film debut with the musical Romance on the High Seas. She played the title role in the musical Calamity Jane and starred in the thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Day) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)