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Laraine Day
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Laraine Day
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-10-13,Roosevelt, Utah, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Laraine Day, born La Raine Johnson, was a major movie star of the 1940s and '50s. Raised in Utah as part of a prominent Mormon family, she came to Hollywood as a young woman, and made her film debut with an uncredited role in Stella Dallas. Before she was famous she also played the birth-mother of Tarzan and Jane's adopted son "Boy" in Tarzan Finds a Son. Her break came in 1939, with the wildly popular "Dr Kildare" sequels. Day played Kildare's nurse and love interest in the third through ninth Kildare movies, until her character married the doctor in Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day. As Mrs Kildare, she was written out of the next, and last, Kildare feature. In 1942, she starred with Ayres again in the underrated axe murder melodrama Fingers at the Window. Over subsequent decades, her memorable films included the flashback-within-flashback-within-flashback drama The Locket, the gangster comedy Mr Lucky, and the campy paranoia piece I Married A Communist. She was among the all-star passengers in the overwrought airliner-in-peril drama The High and the Mighty, and in Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent it was Day who encouraged Joel McCrea to give his stirring report of the air raid at the film's climax Hitchcock's thinly-veiled plea for America to enter World War II. When television became a viable income source, Day found the small screen more inviting and less time-consuming than making movies, and she became primarily a TV actress. She had a 15-minute series of uplifting vignettes called Daydreaming with Laraine, and another 15-minute daily celebrity chat show called The Laraine Day Show. Married to New York Giants manager Leo Durocher, Day became one of TV's first female sports reporters when she hosted Day with the Giants, an early 1950s baseball talk show with Giants' players that aired on New York City's Channel 11. Her last film was a low-budget thriller, The Third Voice, in 1960, but she continued taking occasional guest roles on TV series Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, etc. through the mid-1980s. Following her retierment she spent the remainder of her life active in the Mormon church, Republican politics, and various charity related work. Upon the death of her third husband Michael Grilikhes in March 2007 she moved back to her native Utah where she died that November at age 87. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA.

Filmography

Foreign Correspondent

6.966

Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16

The Woman on Pier 13

5.3

The Woman on Pier 13
1950-06-15

Tarzan Finds a Son!

6.1

Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939-06-16

6.7

The Glass Key
1942-09-08

5.9

The 3rd Voice
1960-03-05

4.7

Without Honor
1949-10-26

Journey for Margaret

6.7

Journey for Margaret
1942-12-17

6.3

The Locket
1946-12-20

Fingers at the Window

5.7

Fingers at the Window
1942-04-22

7.2

Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01

The High and the Mighty

5.9

The High and the Mighty
1954-07-03

My Dear Secretary

6.1

My Dear Secretary
1948-11-05

Swiss Family Robinson

10

Swiss Family Robinson
1958-10-12

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

6.8

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941-08-22

The Story of Dr. Wassell

6.3

The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944-07-04

5.6

Tycoon
1947-12-27

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

6.8

Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06

Unholy Partners

7.6

Unholy Partners
1941-11-01

A Yank on the Burma Road

5.7

A Yank on the Burma Road
1942-01-29

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

6.7

Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29

Murder on Flight 502

5.8

Murder on Flight 502
1975-11-21

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

4.9

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940-04-12

Calling Dr. Kildare

6.7

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

6.1

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939-11-24

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

7

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941-05-02

And One Was Beautiful

6.7

And One Was Beautiful
1940-04-05

I Take This Woman

5.8

I Take This Woman
1940-02-02

Keep Your Powder Dry

6.1

Keep Your Powder Dry
1945-04-01

Sergeant Madden

7.5

Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24

Bride by Mistake

6.7

Bride by Mistake
1944-07-26

Three for Jamie Dawn

6.5

Three for Jamie Dawn
1956-07-08

6.9

Toy Tiger
1956-06-29

My Son, My Son!

4.8

My Son, My Son!
1940-03-21

6.9

Stella Dallas
1937-08-06

Return to Fantasy Island

6

Return to Fantasy Island
1978-01-20

6

Kathleen
1941-12-18

Those Endearing Young Charms

9

Those Endearing Young Charms
1945-06-19

5.5

Arizona Legion
1939-01-20

6

Painted Desert
1938-08-12

5.6

Border G-Man
1938-06-24

The Trial of Mary Dugan

6.5

The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941-02-14

5.9

The Bad Man
1941-03-28

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

6.8

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940-10-24

7.7

Think First
1939-09-08

Twenty Years After

8

Twenty Years After
1944-01-01

8

Scandal Street
1938-02-11

Mr. Gardenia Jones

5

Mr. Gardenia Jones
1942-05-29

Too Old for Dolls

0

Too Old for Dolls
1955-02-24

The Final Tribute

0

The Final Tribute
1955-11-16

0

Prima Donna
1956-02-01

Rendezvous in Black

0

Rendezvous in Black
1956-10-25

Murder, She Wrote

7.522

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

6.2

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

5.6

The F.B.I.
1965-09-19

7.6

Airwolf
1984-01-22

6.7

Hotel
1982-08-21

6.4

Medical Center
1969-09-24

General Electric Theater

6.8

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Your Show of Shows

7.2

Your Show of Shows
1950-02-25

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05

3.8

Climax!
1954-10-07

The Sixth Sense

6.3

The Sixth Sense
1972-01-15

7.7

The New Breed
1961-10-03

Letter to Loretta

6.6

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta

6.6

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Letter to Loretta

6.6

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.7

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

8

Pursuit
1958-10-22

4.8

Checkmate
1960-09-17

The Name of the Game

7

The Name of the Game
1968-09-20

6.244

The Love Boat
1977-09-24

What's My Line?

7.1

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

Screen Director's Playhouse

7

Screen Director's Playhouse
1955-10-05

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20

6.5

Fantasy Island
1978-01-28