Legendary American actress and singer Doris Day has passed away aged 97, with the Doris Day Animal Foundation releasing a statement announcing that the star passed away today at her home in California, and had been “in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia.”
Born in Cincinnati in 1922, Day began her career as a singer and radio performer in the 1930s, scoring her first major hit with ‘Sentimental Journey’ in 1945, and making the jump to Hollywood in 1948 with her feature film debut in Romance on the High Seas.
Day enjoyed a prolific and successful career on the big screen during the next two decades, earning an Oscar nomination for 1959’s Pillow Talk and starring in the likes of Calamity Jane, Love Me or Leave Me, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink, Move Over, Darling and The Glass Bottom Boat, before turning her attention to the small screen for the sitcom The Doris Day Show, which ran from 1968 to 1973.
