{"id":1572,"date":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/hollywood-legend-singer-and-actress-doris-day-dies-aged-97\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"hollywood-legend-singer-and-actress-doris-day-dies-aged-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/hollywood-legend-singer-and-actress-doris-day-dies-aged-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Legend Doris Day Dies Aged 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood legend Doris Day has died at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>Her death on Monday, 13 May 2019, was announced in a statement to the Associated Press by officials at her animal foundation, who said the singer turned actress, &#8220;had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She passed away at her home in Carmel, California, where she was surrounded by close friends.<\/p>\n<p>Day started out as a dancer and big band singer in the 1930s, and made her screen debut in 1948 in <em>Romance on the High Seas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She became a Hollywood icon in the 1950s, playing the title role in the beloved screen musical <em>Calamity Jane <\/em>and starred alongside James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s thriller <em>The Man Who Knew Too Much.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/doris_day_james_stewart_getty_john_springer_collection_contributor-3.jpg\" width=\"1127\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other notable roles included lovestruck decorator Jan Morrow opposite screen icon Rock Hudson in <em>Pillow Talk,<\/em> for which she received her only Oscar nomination and <em>Move Over, Darling,<\/em> before she moved to television with her U.S. sitcom <em>The Doris Day Show. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Day was also a singer and had a string of hits in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, beginning with her first U.S. number one, Sentimental Journey in 1945, and later her hit in 1956 with <em>Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/doris_day_in_pillow_talk_getty_silver_screen_collection_contributor-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She continued to work until well into her later years, releasing her final album, My Heart in 2011. 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