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
    Place of birth
    Roosevelt, Utah, USA
    Birthday
    10/13/1920
Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent
7
The Woman on Pier 13
The Woman on Pier 13
5.3
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan Finds a Son!
6.1
The Glass Key
The Glass Key
6.6
The 3rd Voice
The 3rd Voice
5.8
Without Honor
Without Honor
5.2
Journey for Margaret
Journey for Margaret
6.6
The Locket
The Locket
6.4
Fingers at the Window
Fingers at the Window
5.4
Mr. Lucky
Mr. Lucky
6.9
The High and the Mighty
The High and the Mighty
5.9
My Dear Secretary
My Dear Secretary
5.9
Swiss Family Robinson
0
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
6.5
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Story of Dr. Wassell
6.3
Tycoon
Tycoon
5.3
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.8
Unholy Partners
Unholy Partners
7
A Yank on the Burma Road
A Yank on the Burma Road
4
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6
Murder on Flight 502
Murder on Flight 502
6
Calling Dr. Kildare
Calling Dr. Kildare
6.1
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
4.8
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
7
And One Was Beautiful
And One Was Beautiful
6.2
I Take This Woman
I Take This Woman
6.2
Keep Your Powder Dry
Keep Your Powder Dry
5.9
Sergeant Madden
Sergeant Madden
6
Bride by Mistake
Bride by Mistake
6.1
Three for Jamie Dawn
Three for Jamie Dawn
5
Toy Tiger
Toy Tiger
6.2
My Son, My Son!
My Son, My Son!
4.3
Stella Dallas
Stella Dallas
6.9
Return to Fantasy Island
Return to Fantasy Island
3.2
Kathleen
Kathleen
5
Those Endearing Young Charms
Those Endearing Young Charms
0
Arizona Legion
Arizona Legion
5
Painted Desert
Painted Desert
5.8
Border G-Man
Border G-Man
5
The Trial of Mary Dugan
The Trial of Mary Dugan
5
The Bad Man
The Bad Man
5.4
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7
Think First
Think First
0
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After
6
Scandal Street
Scandal Street
0
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Mr. Gardenia Jones
4.2
Too Old for Dolls
Too Old for Dolls
0
The Final Tribute
0
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