Laraine Day
Laraine Johnson · La Raine Johnson
- Туған күні:
- 1920-10-13
- Қайтыс болған күні:
- 2007-11-10
- Туған жері:
- Roosevelt, Utah, USA
Өмірбаяны
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.
Фильмографиясы
Return to Fantasy Island
1978
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mrs. Grant
Murder on Flight 502
1975
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Claire Garwood
The 3rd Voice
1960
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Marian Forbes
Swiss Family Robinson
1958
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Frannie (Mother)
Rendezvous in Black
1956
Florence Strickland
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Sue Lorenz
Toy Tiger
1956
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Gwendolyn Taylor
Prima Donna
1956
Laraine Day
The Final Tribute
1955
Joyce Carter
Too Old for Dolls
1955
Marge Ramsay
Великий и могучий
1954
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Lydia Rice
The Woman on Pier 13
1950
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Nan Lowry Collins
Without Honor
1949
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Jane Bandle
My Dear Secretary
1948
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
Tycoon
1947
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Maura Alexander Munroe
Медальон
1946
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Nancy
Those Endearing Young Charms
1945
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Helen Brandt
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Leigh Rand
Bride by Mistake
1944
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Norah Hunter
История доктора Уоссела
1944
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Madeleine
Twenty Years After
1944
TMDb 8.0 / 10
(archive footage)
Мистер Счастливчик
1943
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Dorothy Bryant
Journey for Margaret
1942
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Nora Davis
Стеклянный ключ
1942
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Nurse (uncredited)
Mr. Gardenia Jones
1942
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Joanne
Fingers at the Window
1942
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
A Yank on the Burma Road
1942
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Gail Farwood
Kathleen
1941
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Martha Kent
Нечестные партнеры
1941
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Miss 'Croney' Cronin
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Nurse Mary Lamont
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Nurse Mary Lamont
The Bad Man
1941
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Lucia Pell
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Mary Dugan
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Nurse Mary Lamont
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Self
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Nurse Mary Lamont
Иностранный корреспондент
1940
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Carol Fisher
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Mary Lamont
And One Was Beautiful
1940
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Kate Lattimer
My Son, My Son!
1940
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Maeve O’Riordan
I Take This Woman
1940
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Linda Rodgers
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Mary Lamont
Think First
1939
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Marjorie (Margie) Smith
Тарзан находит сына
1939
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Mrs. Richard Lancing
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Nurse Mary Lamont
Sergeant Madden
1939
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Eileen Daly
Arizona Legion
1939
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
Painted Desert
1938
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Carol Banning
Border G-Man
1938
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
Scandal Street
1938
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
Стелла Даллас
1937
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)