Doris Day, whose melting pop vocals on records and pert sunny image in movies in the 1940s, '50s and '60s made her both a successful multimedia star and a national dart board, died May 13. She was 97.
While Day's image was an ideal for many American women coming of age after World War II, she also came to personify '50s conformity and good-girl subservie…
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