Laraine Day

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.​
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1920-10-13
Place of Birth: Roosevelt, Utah, USA
Also Known As: Laraine Johnson , La Raine Johnson

Movies List of Laraine Day

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Foreign Correspondent

1940 Movie
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The Woman on Pier 13

1950 Movie
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Tarzan Finds a Son!

1939 Movie
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The Glass Key

1942 Movie
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The 3rd Voice

1960 Movie
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Without Honor

1949 Movie
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Journey for Margaret

1942 Movie
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The Locket

1946 Movie
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Fingers at the Window

1942 Movie
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Mr. Lucky

1943 Movie
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My Dear Secretary

1948 Movie
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Swiss Family Robinson

1958 Movie
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Tycoon

1947 Movie
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1940 Movie
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Unholy Partners

1941 Movie
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis

1940 Movie
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Murder on Flight 502

1975 Movie
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Calling Dr. Kildare

1939 Movie
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And One Was Beautiful

1940 Movie
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I Take This Woman

1940 Movie
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Keep Your Powder Dry

1945 Movie
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Sergeant Madden

1939 Movie
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Bride by Mistake

1944 Movie
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Three for Jamie Dawn

1956 Movie
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Toy Tiger

1956 Movie
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My Son, My Son!

1940 Movie
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Stella Dallas

1937 Movie
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Kathleen

1941 Movie
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Arizona Legion

1939 Movie
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Painted Desert

1938 Movie
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Border G-Man

1938 Movie
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The Bad Man

1941 Movie
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Think First

1939 Movie
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Twenty Years After

1944 Movie
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Scandal Street

1938 Movie
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Mr. Gardenia Jones

1942 Movie
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Too Old for Dolls

1955 Movie
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The Final Tribute

1955 Movie