Laraine Day

Actor Oct 13 (died age 87) Roosevelt, Utah, USA 1937–1984 (47 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Foreign Correspondent

Carol Fisher

Film

The Glass Key

Nurse (uncredited)

Film

Stella Dallas

Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)

Film

Tarzan Finds a Son!

Mrs. Richard Lancing

Film

Mr. Lucky

Dorothy Bryant

Film

The High and the Mighty

Lydia Rice

Film

The Locket

Nancy

Film

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Madeleine

Filmography

Acting (73)

Movies (51)

Return to Fantasy Island

as Mrs. Grant

Murder on Flight 502

as Claire Garwood

The 3rd Voice

as Marian Forbes

Swiss Family Robinson

1958

as Frannie (Mother)

Rendezvous in Black

1956

as Florence Strickland

Prima Donna

1956

as Laraine Day

Toy Tiger

as Gwendolyn Taylor

Three for Jamie Dawn

as Sue Lorenz

Too Old for Dolls

as Marge Ramsay

The Final Tribute

1955

as Joyce Carter

The High and the Mighty

as Lydia Rice

The Woman on Pier 13

as Nan Lowry Collins

Without Honor

as Jane Bandle

My Dear Secretary

as Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord

5.9

Tycoon

1947

as Maura Alexander Munroe

5.3

The Locket

1946

as Nancy

6.3

Those Endearing Young Charms

1945

as Helen Brandt

Keep Your Powder Dry

as Leigh Rand

Bride by Mistake

as Norah Hunter

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

The Story of Dr. Wassell

as Madeleine

Mr. Lucky

as Dorothy Bryant

The Glass Key

as Nurse (uncredited)

Journey for Margaret

as Nora Davis

Mr. Gardenia Jones

as Joanne

Fingers at the Window

1942

as Edwina 'Eddie' Brown

5.5

A Yank on the Burma Road

as Gail Farwood

The Bad Man

as Lucia Pell

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

as Nurse Mary Lamont

Kathleen

as Martha Kent

Unholy Partners

as Miss 'Croney' Cronin

7.0

The Trial of Mary Dugan

1941

as Mary Dugan

5.0

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

1941

as Nurse Mary Lamont

6.8

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Nurse Mary Lamont

My Son, My Son!

as Maeve O’Riordan

And One Was Beautiful

1940

as Kate Lattimer

6.2

Foreign Correspondent

as Carol Fisher

I Take This Woman

as Linda Rodgers

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

as Nurse Mary Lamont

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

1940

as Nurse Mary Lamont

4.6

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

as Self

Calling Dr. Kildare

as Nurse Mary Lamont

Tarzan Finds a Son!

as Mrs. Richard Lancing

6.1

Think First

1939

as Marjorie (Margie) Smith

7.0

Sergeant Madden

1939

as Eileen Daly

6.0

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

1939

as Nurse Mary Lamont

5.6

Arizona Legion

1939

as Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)

5.0

Border G-Man

1938

as Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)

5.0

Scandal Street

1938

as Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)

Painted Desert

1938

as Carol Banning

5.8

Stella Dallas

1937

as Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)

6.9

Television (22)

Murder, She Wrote

1984

as Constance Fletcher

Airwolf

as Amelia Davenport

Hotel

as Mrs. Kupchak

Fantasy Island

as Mrs. Grant

The Love Boat

as Vera Simpson

The Sixth Sense

Medical Center

The Name of the Game

as Grace Jellicoe

The F.B.I.

as Helen York

Burke's Law

as Lisa Cole

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Ruth

The New Breed

as Vivian Cowley

Checkmate

as Amnesiac Woman

Pursuit

as Kathy Nelson

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Laraine Day

Climax!

as Ellen Parker

General Electric Theater

Letter to Loretta

as Carol Potter

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Mrs. Lorenz

What's My Line?

as Self

Your Show of Shows

Lux Video Theatre

as Sophie