Laraine Day

Laraine Day

Acting 1920-10-13 Roosevelt, Utah, USA

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.​

代表作

📜

全部作品

1984 Constance Fletcher
1984 Amelia Davenport
1982 Mrs. Kupchak
1978 Mrs. Grant
1977 Vera Simpson
1975 Claire Garwood
1968 Grace Jellicoe
1965 Helen York
展开全部作品
1963 Lisa Cole
1961 Vivian Cowley
1960 Marian Forbes
1960 Amnesiac Woman
1958 Mother
1958 Kathy Nelson
1956 Sue Lorenz
1956 Gwendolyn Taylor
1956 Laraine Day
1956 Florence Strickland
1955 Marge Ramsay
1955 Joyce Carter
1955 Laraine Day
1954 Lydia Rice
1954 Ellen Parker
1953 Carol Potter
1953 Karen McCall
1953 Sara Lewis
1951 Mrs. Lorenz
1950 Nan Lowry Collins
1950 Sophie
1950 Charlotte Vale
1950 Louise Howell
1950 Lynn
1950 Claire Brandon
1950 Lydia
1950 Phyllis Dietrichson
1949 Jane Bandle
1948 Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
1947 Maura Alexander Munroe
1946 Nancy
1945 Leigh Rand
1945 Helen Brandt
1944 Madeleine
1944 Norah Hunter
1944 (archive footage)
1943 Dorothy Bryant
1942 Nurse (uncredited)
1942 Nora Davis
1942 Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
1942 Gail Farwood
1942 Joanne
1941 Nurse Mary Lamont
1941 Miss 'Croney' Cronin
1941 Nurse Mary Lamont
1941 Martha Kent
1941 Mary Dugan
1941 Lucia Pell
1940 Carol Fisher
1940 Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 Kate Lattimer
1940 Linda Rodgers
1940 Maeve O’Riordan
1939 Mrs. Richard Lancing
1939 Nurse Mary Lamont
1939 Nurse Mary Lamont
1939 Eileen Daly
1939 Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
1939 Marjorie (Margie) Smith
1938 Carol Banning
1938 Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
1938 Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
1937 Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)