20 Heartthrobs from the Golden Age of Hollywood

Doris Day was the ultimate “good girl” of the ’50s

Audiences loved Doris Day for her bubbly personality on screen, as well as her all-American beauty and singing voice. Her breakthrough role was in “Calamity Jane” (1953), which was a box-office smash, and 1959’s “Pillow Talk.” She was also known for her squeaky-clean image, which prompted the famous line (subscribed to either Groucho Marx or Oscar Levant), “I’m so old, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”