1949: Her second outing sees Day as a replacement radio songstress, set in a love triangle with her agent (Jack Carson) and a rival (Lee Bowman).

1950: Stepping up in star power (with Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Hoagy Carmichael) in a biopic reportedly based on the life of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke.

1950: Another musical exercise with Gordon MacRae in the same year, this time with the additions of Jimmy Cagney & Virginia Mayo, about the hijinx of a Broadway director.

1951: Lullaby of Broadway brings a new partnering with Gene Nelson.

1951: Cute coupling with funnyman Danny Thomas as songwriter Gus Kahn, whose wife Grace follows him through a Hollywood rise & fall. With Frank Lovejoy.

1952: Doris plays a chorus girl and Ray Bolger (of Wizard of Oz fame), her new beau, heading by mistake to the City of Lights.

1953: One of Day's best roles is this western/musical/romantic comedy (whew!) as title character Calamity Jane. Handsome Howard Keel stars opposite as her brawny love interest, Wild Bill Hickok.

1954: Frank Sinatra & Doris Day, a combination that naturally lends itself to a musical. A remake of the film Four Daughters; co-stars Dorothy Malone, Elizabeth Fraser, Gig Young.

1956: The brilliance of Hitchcock pairs Day with Jimmy Stewart in this tight, dramatic thriller. It prominently features Day's signature song, "Que Sera Sera."

1957: Returning to a musical format, Doris plays the rep of a workers' grievance committee at a pajama factory that won't give them a 7 1/2-cent raise. John Raitt is the foreman she falls in love with

1958: With Richard Widmark, as a couple trying to adopt a baby. A stage play adaptation, it was not as well received as her other films, and Day herself had not liked the script. Again with Gig Young.