Laraine Day
50 Filme · 21 Serien
- Bekannt für
- Schauspiel
- Geboren
- 13. Okt. 1920
- Gestorben
- 10. Nov. 2007 (87 Jahre)
- Geburtsort
- Roosevelt, Utah, USA
- Auch bekannt als
- Laraine Johnson · La Raine Johnson
Biografie
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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.
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Bekannt aus
Laraine Day: Filme und Serien
Schauspiel (71)
- 1984
- 1984
- 1982
- 1978
- 1978 Return to Fantasy Island
als Mrs. Grant
- 1977
- 1975 Murder on Flight 502
als Claire Garwood
- 1972
- 1969
- 1968
- 1965
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960 The 3rd Voice
als Marian Forbes
- 1958
- 1958 Swiss Family Robinson
als Frannie (Mother)
- 1956 Rendezvous in Black
als Florence Strickland
- 1956 Three for Jamie Dawn
als Sue Lorenz
- 1956 Toy Tiger
als Gwendolyn Taylor
- 1956 Prima Donna
als Laraine Day
- 1955 The Final Tribute
als Joyce Carter
- 1955
- 1955 Too Old for Dolls
als Marge Ramsay
- 1954
- 1954 Es wird immer wieder Tag
als Lydia Rice
- 1953
- 1953
- 1951
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre · Serie
als Sophie / Charlotte Vale / Louise Howell / Lynn / Claire Brandon / Lydia / Phyllis Dietrichson · 7 Folgen
- 1950 Ich heiratete einen Kommunisten
als Nan Lowry Collins
- 1950
- 1949 Without Honor
als Jane Bandle
- 1948 My Dear Secretary
als Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
- 1947 Tycoon
als Maura Alexander Munroe
- 1946 The Locket
als Nancy
- 1945 Those Endearing Young Charms
als Helen Brandt
- 1945 Keep Your Powder Dry
als Leigh Rand
- 1944 Bride by Mistake
als Norah Hunter
- 1944 Dr. Wassells Flucht aus Java
als Madeleine
- 1944 Twenty Years After
als (archive footage)
- 1943 Mr. Lucky
als Dorothy Bryant
- 1942 Margaret aus London
als Nora Davis
- 1942 Der gläserne Schlüssel
als Nurse (uncredited)
- 1942 Mr. Gardenia Jones
als Joanne
- 1942 Fingers at the Window
als Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
- 1942 A Yank on the Burma Road
als Gail Farwood
- 1941 Papa braucht eine Braut
als Martha Kent
- 1941 Tödlicher Pakt
als Miss 'Croney' Cronin
- 1941 Dr. Kildare - Der Hochzeitstag
als Nurse Mary Lamont
- 1941 Dr. Kildare vor Gericht
als Nurse Mary Lamont
- 1941 The Bad Man
als Lucia Pell
- 1941 The Trial of Mary Dugan
als Mary Dugan
- 1940 Dr. Kildare – Verhängnisvolle Diagnose
als Nurse Mary Lamont
- 1940 Dr. Kildare – Die Heimkehr
als Nurse Mary Lamont
- 1940 Der Auslandskorrespondent
als Carol Fisher
- 1940 Dr. Kildare - Auf Messers Schneide
als Mary Lamont
- 1940 And One Was Beautiful
als Kate Lattimer
- 1940 Die Irrwege des Oliver Essex
als Maeve O’Riordan
- 1940 I Take This Woman
als Linda Rodgers
- 1939 Dr. Kildare – Das Geheimnis
als Mary Lamont
- 1939 Think First
als Marjorie (Margie) Smith
- 1939 Tarzan und sein Sohn
als Mrs. Richard Lancing
- 1939 Dr. Kildare – Unter Verdacht
als Nurse Mary Lamont
- 1939 Sergeant Madden
als Eileen Daly
- 1939 Arizona Legion
als Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
- 1938 Painted Desert
als Carol Banning
- 1938 Border G-Man
als Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
- 1938 Scandal Street
als Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
- 1937 Stella Dallas
als Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
Talkshows und Auftritte (2)
- 1950 What's My Line?
4 Folgen
- 1940