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Kaley Cuoco is taking on a legendary role.
The 35-year-old
Doris Day based on
Doris Day: Her Own Story, Variety reported Friday (March 12).
The 1976 biography is based on a series of interviews with the late screen icon, and it is considered her autobiography.
More about
Doris Day‘s legacy, via Variety: “[
Doris Day] started in show business as a singer, and made her film debut in the late 1940s in movie musicals. In the ’50s and ‘60s, she was a huge star and box office draw. Day showed her talents in such movies as
Calamity Jane (1953);
Alfred Hitchcock’s
The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which she sang ‘Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be),’ which became her signature song;
Variety reports that Cuoco, who famously played the girl next door on
The Big Bang Theory for many years, will play one of Hollywood’s most famous girl next door types in a Doris Day TV show, which will be based on A.E. Hotchner’s “Doris Day: Her Own Story,” a biography based on a collection of interviews with the acclaimed actress.
Here’s how Variety describes Day’s career: “[she] started in show business as a singer, and made her film debut in the late 1940s in movie musicals. In the ’50s and ’60s, she was a huge star and box office draw. Day showed her talents in such movies as