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person_profile-Laraine Day

Laraine Day Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Laraine Day

Date of Birth:

Oct 13, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 10, 2007

Biography of

Laraine Day

    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.​

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Laraine Day

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Filmography of

Laraine Day

Found 42 Movies in total

Return to Fantasy Island

Mrs. Grant ( Actor )

... 1978

Murder on Flight 502

Claire Garwood ( Actor )

... 1975

The 3rd Voice

Marian Forbes ( Actor )

... 1960

Three for Jamie Dawn

Sue Lorenz ( Actor )

... 1956

Toy Tiger

Gwendolyn Taylor ( Actor )

... 1956

The High and the Mighty

Lydia Rice ( Actor )

... 1954

The Woman on Pier 13

Nan Lowry Collins ( Actor )

... 1950

Without Honor

Jane Bandle ( Actor )

... 1949

My Dear Secretary

Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord ( Actor )

... 1948

Tycoon

Maura Alexander Munroe ( Actor )

... 1947

The Locket

Nancy Monks Blair Patton ( Actor )

... 1946

Those Endearing Young Charms

Helen Brandt ( Actor )

... 1945

Keep Your Powder Dry

Leigh Rand ( Actor )

... 1945

Bride by Mistake

Norah Hunter ( Actor )

... 1944

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Madeleine ( Actor )

... 1944

Mr. Lucky

Dorothy Bryant ( Actor )

... 1943

Journey for Margaret

Nora Davis ( Actor )

... 1942

The Glass Key

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Fingers at the Window

Edwina 'Eddie' Brown ( Actor )

... 1942

A Yank on the Burma Road

Mrs. Gail Farwood ( Actor )

... 1942

Kathleen

Martha Kent ( Actor )

... 1941

Unholy Partners

Miss 'Croney' Cronin ( Actor )

... 1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1941

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

Nurse Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1941

The Bad Man

Lucia Pell ( Actor )

... 1941

The Trial of Mary Dugan

Mary Dugan ( Actor )

... 1941

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1940

Foreign Correspondent

Carol Fisher ( Actor )

... 1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Nurse Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1940

And One Was Beautiful

Kate Lattimer ( Actor )

... 1940

My Son, My Son!

Maeve O’Riordan ( Actor )

... 1940

I Take This Woman

Linda Rodgers ( Actor )

... 1940

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Nurse Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1939

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Mrs. Richard Lancing ( Actor )

... 1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

Nurse Mary Lamont ( Actor )

... 1939

Sergeant Madden

Eileen Daly ( Actor )

... 1939

Arizona Legion

Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson) ( Actor )

... 1939

Painted Desert

Carol Banning ( Actor )

... 1938

Border G-Man

Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson) ( Actor )

... 1938

Scandal Street

Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson) ( Actor )

... 1938

Stella Dallas

Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937