Timeline Doris Day

American actress and singer, one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and 1960s and later a leading animal-welfare campaigner.

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1922 Doris Day born in Cincinnati Doris Day is born in Cincinnati.
1945 Doris Day's Sentimental Journey becomes a hit Her recording with Les Brown and His Band of Renown becomes a homecoming anthem at the end of World War II.
1948 Doris Day's film debut, Romance on the High Seas Doris Day makes her film debut at Warner Bros.
1953 Doris Day stars in Calamity Jane The musical western includes her hit Secret Love, which wins the Oscar for Best Original Song.
1956 Doris Day sings Que Sera, Sera She introduces the song in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, and it wins the Oscar for Best Original Song.
1959 Doris Day stars in Pillow Talk Her first comedy with Rock Hudson earns her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
1968 The Doris Day Show premieres Her CBS sitcom runs for five seasons, until 1973.
2004 Doris Day awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Doris Day receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2019 Doris Day dies in Carmel Valley Doris Day dies aged 97.