Laraine Day

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1920-10-13 (87 years old)

Deathday

2007-11-10

Place of Birth

Roosevelt, Utah, USA

Laraine Day

Biography

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, Kildar...

Acting

1940

Foreign Correspondent

as Carol Fisher

1950

The Woman on Pier 13

as Nan Lowry Collins

1939

Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Mrs. Richard Lancing

1942

The Glass Key

as Nurse (uncredited)

1960

The 3rd Voice

as Marian Forbes

1949

Without Honor

as Jane Bandle

1942

1946

The Locket

as Nancy

1942

Fingers at the Window

as Edwina 'Eddie' Brown

1943

Mr. Lucky

as Dorothy Bryant

1954

1948

My Dear Secretary

as Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord

1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1944

1947

Tycoon

as Maura Alexander Munroe

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1941

Unholy Partners

as Miss 'Croney' Cronin

1942

A Yank on the Burma Road

as Mrs. Gail Farwood

1940

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1975

Murder on Flight 502

as Claire Garwood

1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1941

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

as Nurse Mary Lamont

1940

And One Was Beautiful

as Kate Lattimer

1940

I Take This Woman

as Linda Rodgers

1945

1939

Sergeant Madden

as Eileen Daly

1944

Bride by Mistake

as Norah Hunter

1956

1956

Toy Tiger

as Gwendolyn Taylor

1940

My Son, My Son!

as Maeve O’Riordan

1937

Stella Dallas

as Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)

1978

1941

Kathleen

as Martha Kent

1945

1939

Arizona Legion

as Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)

1938

Painted Desert

as Carol Banning

1938

Border G-Man

as Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)

1941

1941

The Bad Man

as Lucia Pell

1939

Think First

as Marjorie (Margie) Smith

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1938

Scandal Street

as Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)

1942

1955

Too Old for Dolls

as Marge Ramsay

1955

The Final Tribute

as Joyce Carter

1956

Prima Donna

as Laraine Day

1956

Rendezvous in Black

as Florence Strickland

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