Doris Day dies aged 97: Old-school star

There are almost 6bn more people in the world today than there were when Doris Day, who has died in California aged 97, made her first film, Romance on the High Seas in 1948.

For the millions of people whose engagement with popular entertainment had not begun when she made her last film — With Six You Get Eggroll in 1968 — if might be helpful, if not entirely accurate, to describe her as the Beyonce of her day.