American actress and singer (1922–2019)
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She made wholesomeness box office gold — the girl-next-door who became the top-earning star in America four separate times, singing "Que Sera, Sera" while anchoring a string of bedroom comedies that never quite went to bed.
Born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff in 1922, she started as a big band singer in 1937 and broke through in 1945 with two No. 1 hits, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time," singing with Les Brown. She went solo and recorded more than 650 songs over two decades, her voice bright and unmistakable. Her film debut came in 1948 with Romance on the High Seas, and by the late 1950s she'd become a box-office anchor — the title role in Calamity Jane, a Hitchcock thriller, then three comedies opposite Rock Hudson that made her a household fixture, including Pillow Talk, which…
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I’ve been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they’d come back up?
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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