Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time." She recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

Doris Day was one of the biggest film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart.

Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies.

After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).

She had a tremendous interest in animal welfare, and in 1971 she co-founded Actors and Others for Animals, and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur. In 1978, she founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF). During her retirement she owned many pets and adopted stray animals. She could not bear to see them suffer.

Doris Day, the image of wholesome American beauty and spunk. A life well lived now In Heaven with the Stars.