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61 Amazing Photos of Singer & Actress Doris Day in the 1940s and 1950s

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American singer and motion-picture actress whose performances in movie musicals of the 1950s and sex comedies of the early ’60s made her a leading Hollywood star.

While still a teenager, she changed her last name to Day when she began singing on radio. She worked as a vocalist in the bands of Barney Rapp and Bob Crosby before joining Les Brown’s band in 1940 and making several popular recordings, among them “Sentimental Journey.” Day went solo in 1947 and achieved great success as a recording artist. Her singing was distinguished by crystal clear tone and the ability to convey great emotion without histrionics.

Day’s first major film role was in Romance on the High Seas (1948). From there she made a long series of musicals, including Calamity Jane (1953), Young at Heart (1954), Love Me or Leave Me(1955), and The Pajama Game (1957). Her screen persona, that of an intelligent, wholesome woman of unfailing optimism and understated strength of character, came to epitomize the ideal American woman of the 1950s.

Day went on to star in a string of sophisticated sex comedies, notably Teacher’s Pet (1958), Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), The Thrill of It All (1963), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). These comedies made her Hollywood’s leading box-office attraction. From 1968 to 1973 she starred in The Doris Day Show, a weekly television series.

As her acting career neared its end, Day focused her attention on animals, cofounding Actors and Others for Animals. In 1978 she founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, and nine years later she became a founding member and president of the Doris Day Animal League, a lobbying organization for laws regulating the treatment of animals.

Day died on May 13, 2019, at the age of 97, after having contracted pneumonia.

Portrait of actress Doris Day leaning against a tree trunk, circa 1950. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

**1959: Popular acting team Rock Hudson and Doris Day in a scene from the Universal-International comedy ‘Pillow Talk’.**

29 Amazing Colorized Historical Photos

**Romanov sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana, 1910.**

**18 year old Russian girl being liberated from Dachau, April 1945.**

Mary Winsor, founder and president of the Limited Suffrage Society, holds a sign during
the American suffrage movement, ca. 1917.

**Inventor and physicist Thomas Alva Edison. New Jersey, 1911.**

**Marilyn Monroe’s USO performance, February 1954.**

**A small child with a puppy, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, May 1943.**

**Sidewheeler Tashmoo leaving wharf in Detroit, ca 1901.**

**Clam seller on Mulberry Bend, New York, 1900.**

“Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat” – Western Desert, Egypt,
1941.

**WWII propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York, 1942.**

Titanic sinks on April 15, 1912. Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening
paper bearing news of the disaster. April 16, 1912.

**Coca-Cola vending point at the Helsinki Summer Olympics, July 18, 1952.**

**College students pile into a Volkswagen Beetle, 1965.**

**Monument Circle, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1907.**

**Miss America, 1924 – Ruth Malcomson.**

**Licking blocks of ice during the heat wave, NYC, 1912.**

**British tattoo artist George Burchett, the King of Tattooists, 1930.**

Jewish women and children arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Poland,
1944.

**Two girls, Jean and Charlotte Potter, sit at the beach with their dog, ca. 1910s.**

**Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald, April 16, 1945.**

20 Amazing Photos of Celebrities in the 1950s and 1960s

In the post-war years of the 1950s, Italy saw an explosion in international film production,and as stars flocked to Rome—followed by models, playboys, and monarchs—the city wastransformed. A small band of press photographers—or ‘paparazzi’—were the very first todocument this ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’ phenomenon, and prominent among their number was ElioSorci, who pursued and captured candid images of celebrities.

**Brigitte Bardot filming in Fiesole, Tuscany, 1962.**

**Clint Eastwood, Via Veneto, Rome, 1965.**

**Elizabeth Taylor at the David di Donatello Awards, Rome, 1962.**

**Princess Grace of Monaco, Rome, 1957.**

**Sophia Loren at the premiere of C’era una volta (More Than a Miracle), Naples, 1967.**

**Ted Kennedy visiting the set of Barabbas, Cinecittà Studios, Rome, 1961.**

**Actor John Wayne arrives at Ciampino Airport in Rome in 1960.**

German-born strip tease performer Dodo d’Hambourg of Paris Crazy Horse Saloon fame
appears in Italy in the 1960s.

**Actress Audrey Hepburn arrives at Fiumicino Airport, Rome in 1958.**

Italian actress Sophia Loren attends the film premiere of ‘Once Upon a Time in The West’
in Naples, Italy in 1967.

**American film director, actor and producer Orson Welles appears in Rome in 1969.**

Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and then partner Danish actress Annette Stroyberg attend
the Silver Mask Awards in Rome in 1961.

**The French actor Alain Delon appears while making ‘The Sicilian Clan’ in Rome in 1969.**

**Prince Karim Al Husseini, The Aga Khan IV, appears in Italy in 1960.**

**British actor David Niven appears in Italy in 1970.**

**Italian film and stage actress Anna Magnani appears in Rome in the 1960s.**

**French actress and singer Juliette Gréco pictured in Rome in the 1960s.**

**Italian actress Claudia Cardinale pictured in Sorrento, Italy in 1967.**

(Photos by Elio Sorci)

55 Stunning Color Photos of Bettie Page in the 1950s

37 Interesting Photos of Young People in Berkeley, California during the Early 1970s

(Photos © the Nick DeWolf Foundation)

22 Glamorous Photos of 1920s American Beauty Queens

Beauty contests became more popular in the 1880s. In 1888, the title of ‘beauty queen’ was awarded to an 18-year-old Creole contestant at a pageant in Spa, Belgium. …

Beauty contests came to be considered more respectable with the first modern “Miss America” contest held in 1921.

Take a look at these glamorous photos to see what American beauty queens looked like from the early days.

**Miss Chicago Georgia Theodora Hale was the winner in the first year of the Miss Chicago contest in 1922**

**Miss Chicago Margaret Leigh came in fourth place at the Atlantic City Miss America beauty contest, the most prestigious beauty contest in America, September of 1924**

**Miss Milwaukee Clare Koehler, from left, Miss Chicago Margaret Leigh, Miss Los Angeles Lillian Knight and Miss Sioux City Alta Sterling, Sept. 1924**

**Miss Chicago of 1925, Margarita Gonzales, circa 1925. Gonzales was a candidate for the national title at the Atlantic City beauty contest in 1925, but was eliminated in the first round**

**Cars are covered in flowers as part of a Chrysler Parade to honor beauty queens, Sept. 1, 1926**

**Maebelle Soller at the Miss Chicago contest, Aug. 31, 1926**

**Margaret Knight, right, and two other girls participate in the 1926 Miss Chicago contest**

**Miss Chicago contestant Lucille Burgess, left, with Betty Blythe, March 20, 1926**

**On Aug. 2, 1926, Mae Greene, 18, was chosen as Miss Chicago 1926 out of 4,000 rivals at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago**

**On Aug. 2, 1926, Mae Greene, 18, was chosen as Miss Chicago 1926**

**Estelle Kosloff, 20, August 16, 1927. Kosloff won the Miss Chicago beauty pageant in 1927, but was disqualified when the pageant found out she was recently married**

**Miss America Lois Delander, 16, Oct. 11, 1927**

**Miss America Lois Delander, a Joliet High School junior who was selected queen of beauty at the Atlantic City pageant, is seen with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albin Delander, 1927**

**Miss Myrtle Christine Valsted, 17, July 11, 1927. Valsted became Miss Chicago 1927 after the original winner, Estelle Kosloff, was found out to be married**

**Miss Myrtle Christine Valsted, 17, was Miss Chicago in 1927**

**Mrs. Wallace Ford models a dress that she will wear to the Miss America costume for arts ball at the Stevens Hotel, Nov. 20, 1927**

**Virgina Stonesifer, from left, Betty Ann Savers, Doris Rutkin, Margaret Dorney, Novene LaRue, and Myrtle Christine Valsted in the Miss Chicago contest, 1927**

**Miss Universe Ella Van Hueson, June 16, 1928**

**The recently-crowned Miss Universe, Ella Van Hueson, 22, arrived home in Chicago for a parade in her honor on June 8, 1928 after winning the International Pageant of Pulchritude in Galveston, Texas**

38 Fabulous Photographs of Life in America during the 1950s

A Day in the Life With “The King of Cool” Steve McQueen in 1963

In the spring of 1963, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the release of The Great Escape, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom.

Intrigued by his dramatic backstory and his off-screen exploits — McQueen was a reformed delinquent who got his thrills racing cars and motorcycles — LIFE sent photographer John Dominis to California to hang out with the 33-year-old actor and, in effect, see what he could get.

Three weeks and more than 40 rolls of film later, Dominis had captured some astonishing images — photos impossible to imagine in today’s utterly restricted-access celebrity universe. Here, a series of pictures from what Dominis would look back on as one of his favorite assignments, along with insights about the time he spent with the man who would soon don the mantle, “the King of Cool.”

**At his bungalow in Palm Springs, Steve McQueen practices his aim before heading out for a shooting session in the desert, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen driving on Sunset Strip, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen and Neile Adams, his first wife, target-practice with their pistols in the California desert, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen and Neile Adams, his first wife, in the California desert, 1963.**

**McQueen works out at the gym at Paramount Pictures while making the movie Love With the Proper Stranger opposite Natalie Wood, 1963.**

**McQueen takes a call in the living room of his eclectic home in Hollywood, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen and his wife Neile Adams lounge on the patio by the pool at their Palm Springs bungalow, 1963.**

**At his Palm Springs bungalow, Steve McQueen puts on a record, with LPs by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Frank Sinatra scattered at his feet, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen dances with his wife, Neile, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen with his wife, Neile, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen takes a lunch break during a motorcycle race with Bud Ekins, his friend and stuntman for The Great Escape, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen makes a stop at a grocery store in Pearblossom, Calif., to get some treatment for race-bloodied hands, 1963.**

**McQueen takes a deep swig of a tall, cool drink, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen on a camping trip, 1963.**

**Steve McQueen in his sleeping bag on a camping trip, 1963.**

**With his dog, a Malamute named Mike, by his side, Steve McQueen takes in the scenery, California, 1963.**

(Photos: John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

35 Stunning Photos of “The Sisters G” in the 1920s and 1930s

Eleanor and Karla Gutöhrlein, aka “The Sisters G”, were a German sister dance team in the 1920s and early 1930s (according to a 1929 magazine article, they were from Schwabisch-Hall, Germany).

Eleanor (born August 18, 1909) and Karla (born December 9, 1910) differed more than a year in age, but were often thought to be twins. They were famous for performing together, for having striking black bobs, and for their dancing and acting skills, and performed in several American films including King of Jazz (1930), Recaptured Love (1930) and God’s Gift to Women (1931).

The sisters moved to Sweden. Eleanor married the bank director Gösta Lennart Brywolf and died on June 7, 1997 in Vasa, Sweden. Karla married Per Oskar Olof Åberg in 1936.

These glamorous photos that captured “The Sisters G” in the late 1920s and 1930s.