Hollywood actress Doris Day, who died on Monday at 97, starred with Ronald Reagan in the 1950s movies “Storm Warning” and “The Winning Team” and briefly dated the future president.

A lifelong Republican, she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 from President George W. Bush, who said it was “a good day for America when Doris Marianne von Kappelhoff of Evanston, Ohio, decided to become an entertainer.” His father George H.W. Bush had had a crush on her while he was a World War II pilot in the Pacific.