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 Janes adopted son Boy in Tarzan Finds a Son. Her break came in 1939, with the wildly popular Dr Kildare sequels. Day played Kildares nurse and love interest in the third through ninth Kildare movies, until her character married the doctor in Dr. Kildares 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 Hitchcocks Foreign Correspondent it was Day who encouraged Joel McCrea to give his stirring report of the air raid at the films climax Hitchcocks 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 TVs 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 Citys 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.
Carol Fisher
Фильм 1940
Nan Lowry Collins
Фильм 1950
Nurse (uncredited)
Фильм 1942
Marian Forbes
Фильм 1960
Jane Bandle
Фильм 1949
Nora Davis
Фильм 1942
Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
Фильм 1942
Mother
Фильм 1958
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1941
Maura Alexander Munroe
Фильм 1947
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1940
Miss 'Croney' Cronin
Фильм 1941
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1940
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1939
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1940
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1939
Nurse Mary Lamont
Фильм 1941
Kate Lattimer
Фильм 1940
Eileen Daly
Фильм 1939
Sue Lorenz
Фильм 1956
Gwendolyn Taylor
Фильм 1956
Maeve O’Riordan
Фильм 1940
Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
Фильм 1937
Mrs. Grant
Фильм 1978
Helen Brandt
Фильм 1945
Carol Banning
Фильм 1938
Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
Фильм 1938
Mary Dugan
Фильм 1941
Self
Фильм 1940
Marjorie (Margie) Smith
Фильм 1939
(archive footage)
Фильм 1944
Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
Фильм 1938
Joanne
Фильм 1942
Marge Ramsay
Фильм 1955
Joyce Carter
Фильм 1955
Constance Fletcher
Tv 1984
Lisa Cole
Tv 1963
Helen York
Tv 1965
Amelia Davenport
Tv 1984
Mrs. Kupchak
Tv 1982
Tv 1969
Tv 1953
Sophie
Tv 1950
Tv 1950
Mrs. Lorenz
Tv 1951
Ellen Parker
Tv 1954
Tv 1972
Vivian Cowley
Tv 1961
Carol Potter
Tv 1953
Karen McCall
Tv 1953
Charlotte Vale
Tv 1950
Louise Howell
Tv 1950
Sara Lewis
Tv 1953
Lynn
Tv 1950
Claire Brandon
Tv 1950
Lydia
Tv 1950
Phyllis Dietrichson
Tv 1950
Kathy Nelson
Tv 1958
Amnesiac Woman
Tv 1960
Grace Jellicoe
Tv 1968
Vera Simpson
Tv 1977
Self - Panelist
Tv 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Laraine Day
Tv 1955
Ruth
Tv 1962