Laraine Day
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Napisała: Morderstwo
Serial • 1984
jako Constance Fletcher
Airwolf
Serial • 1984
jako Amelia Davenport
Hotel
Serial • 1982
jako Mrs. Kupchak
Fantasy Island
Serial • 1978
jako Mrs. Cummings
Return to Fantasy Island
Film • 1978
jako Mrs. Grant
The Love Boat
Serial • 1977
jako Vera Simpson
Murder on Flight 502
Film • 1975
jako Claire Garwood
The Sixth Sense
Serial • 1972
Medical Center
Serial • 1969
The Name of the Game
Serial • 1968
jako Grace Jellicoe
The F.B.I.
Serial • 1965
jako Helen York
Burke's Law
Serial • 1963
jako Lisa Cole
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Serial • 1962
jako Ruth
The New Breed
Serial • 1961
jako Vivian Cowley
Checkmate
Serial • 1960
jako Amnesiac Woman
The 3rd Voice
Film • 1960
jako Marian Forbes
Pursuit
Serial • 1958
jako Kathy Nelson
Swiss Family Robinson
Film • 1958
jako Frannie (Mother)
Rendezvous in Black
Film • 1956
jako Florence Strickland
Three for Jamie Dawn
Film • 1956
jako Sue Lorenz
Toy Tiger
Film • 1956
jako Gwendolyn Taylor
Prima Donna
Film • 1956
jako Laraine Day
The Final Tribute
Film • 1955
jako Joyce Carter
Screen Director's Playhouse
Serial • 1955
jako Laraine Day
Too Old for Dolls
Film • 1955
jako Marge Ramsay
Climax!
Serial • 1954
jako Ellen Parker
Noc nad Pacyfikiem
Film • 1954
jako Lydia Rice
Letter to Loretta
Serial • 1953
jako Carol Potter
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Serial • 1951
jako Mrs. Lorenz
Lux Video Theatre
Serial • 1950
jako Sophie
The Woman on Pier 13
Film • 1950
jako Nan Lowry Collins
Your Show of Shows
Serial • 1950
What's My Line?
Serial • 1950
jako Self
Without Honor
Film • 1949
jako Jane Bandle
My Dear Secretary
Film • 1948
jako Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
Potentat
Film • 1947
jako Maura Alexander Munroe
The Locket
Film • 1946
jako Nancy
Those Endearing Young Charms
Film • 1945
jako Helen Brandt
Keep Your Powder Dry
Film • 1945
jako Leigh Rand
Bride by Mistake
Film • 1944
jako Norah Hunter
Historia doktora Wassella
Film • 1944
jako Madeleine
Twenty Years After
Film • 1944
jako (archive footage)
Mr. Lucky
Film • 1943
jako Dorothy Bryant
Journey for Margaret
Film • 1942
jako Nora Davis
Szklany klucz
Film • 1942
jako Nurse (uncredited)
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Film • 1942
jako Joanne
Fingers at the Window
Film • 1942
jako Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
A Yank on the Burma Road
Film • 1942
jako Gail Farwood
Kathleen
Film • 1941
jako Martha Kent
Unholy Partners
Film • 1941
jako Miss 'Croney' Cronin
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Film • 1941
jako Nurse Mary Lamont
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Film • 1941
jako Nurse Mary Lamont
The Bad Man
Film • 1941
jako Lucia Pell
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Film • 1941
jako Mary Dugan
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Film • 1940
jako Nurse Mary Lamont
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Film • 1940
jako Self
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Film • 1940
jako Nurse Mary Lamont
Zagraniczny korespondent
Film • 1940
jako Carol Fisher
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Film • 1940
jako Mary Lamont
And One Was Beautiful
Film • 1940
jako Kate Lattimer
My Son, My Son!
Film • 1940
jako Maeve O’Riordan
I Take This Woman
Film • 1940
jako Linda Rodgers
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Film • 1939
jako Mary Lamont
Think First
Film • 1939
jako Marjorie (Margie) Smith
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Film • 1939
jako Mrs. Richard Lancing
Calling Dr. Kildare
Film • 1939
jako Nurse Mary Lamont
Sierżant York
Film • 1939
jako Eileen Daly
Arizona Legion
Film • 1939
jako Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
Painted Desert
Film • 1938
jako Carol Banning
Border G-Man
Film • 1938
jako Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
Scandal Street
Film • 1938
jako Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
Stella Dallas
Film • 1937
jako Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)