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Laraine Day‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1920-10-13

Popularity

star5.4

Laraine Day

Roosevelt, Utah, USA

Laraine Day

Roosevelt, Utah, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1920-10-13

Popularity

star5.4

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.​

Movie Credits

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent‌
star7.0
calendar 1940

The Woman on Pier 13

The Woman on Pier 13‌
star5.3
calendar 1950

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Tarzan Finds a Son!‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

The Glass Key

The Glass Key‌
star6.6
calendar 1942

The 3rd Voice

The 3rd Voice‌
star5.8
calendar 1960

Without Honor

Without Honor‌
star5.2
calendar 1949

Journey for Margaret

Journey for Margaret‌
star6.6
calendar 1942

The Locket

The Locket‌
star6.4
calendar 1946

Fingers at the Window

Fingers at the Window‌
star5.4
calendar 1942

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky‌
star6.9
calendar 1943

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty‌
star5.9
calendar 1954

My Dear Secretary

My Dear Secretary‌
star5.9
calendar 1948

Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson‌
star0.0
calendar 1958

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day‌
star6.5
calendar 1941

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell‌
star6.3
calendar 1944

Tycoon

Tycoon‌
star5.3
calendar 1947

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Dr. Kildare Goes Home‌
star6.8
calendar 1940

Unholy Partners

Unholy Partners‌
star7.0
calendar 1941

A Yank on the Burma Road

A Yank on the Burma Road‌
star4.0
calendar 1942

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Dr. Kildare's Crisis‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

Murder on Flight 502

Murder on Flight 502‌
star6.0
calendar 1975

Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case‌
star4.8
calendar 1940

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Secret of Dr. Kildare‌
star5.6
calendar 1939

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare‌
star7.0
calendar 1941

And One Was Beautiful

And One Was Beautiful‌
star6.2
calendar 1940

I Take This Woman

I Take This Woman‌
star6.2
calendar 1940

Keep Your Powder Dry

Keep Your Powder Dry‌
star5.9
calendar 1945

Sergeant Madden

Sergeant Madden‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Bride by Mistake

Bride by Mistake‌
star6.1
calendar 1944

Three for Jamie Dawn

Three for Jamie Dawn‌
star5.0
calendar 1956

Toy Tiger

Toy Tiger‌
star6.2
calendar 1956

My Son, My Son!

My Son, My Son!‌
star4.3
calendar 1940

Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas‌
star6.9
calendar 1937

Return to Fantasy Island

Return to Fantasy Island‌
star3.2
calendar 1978

Kathleen

Kathleen‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

Those Endearing Young Charms

Those Endearing Young Charms‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

Arizona Legion

Arizona Legion‌
star5.0
calendar 1939

Painted Desert

Painted Desert‌
star5.8
calendar 1938

Border G-Man

Border G-Man‌
star5.0
calendar 1938

The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Trial of Mary Dugan‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

The Bad Man

The Bad Man‌
star5.4
calendar 1941

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound‌
star6.7
calendar 1940

Think First

Think First‌
star0.0
calendar 1939

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After‌
star6.0
calendar 1944

Scandal Street

Scandal Street‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Mr. Gardenia Jones

Mr. Gardenia Jones‌
star4.2
calendar 1942

Too Old for Dolls

Too Old for Dolls‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

The Final Tribute

The Final Tribute‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Tv Credits

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote‌
star7.6
calendar 1984

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I.‌
star5.4
calendar 1965

Airwolf

Airwolf‌
star7.5
calendar 1984

Hotel

Hotel‌
star6.7
calendar 1982

Medical Center

Medical Center‌
star6.1
calendar 1969

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Your Show of Shows

Your Show of Shows‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense‌
star6.3
calendar 1972

The New Breed

The New Breed‌
star7.0
calendar 1961

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Pursuit

Pursuit‌
star0.0
calendar 1958

Checkmate

Checkmate‌
star4.1
calendar 1960

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game‌
star6.8
calendar 1968

The Love Boat

The Love Boat‌
star6.3
calendar 1977

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950

Screen Director's Playhouse

Screen Director's Playhouse‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour‌
star7.8
calendar 1962