Laraine Day
Acting
Born Oct 13, 1920
-- Died Nov 10, 2007
· Roosevelt, Utah, USA
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,...
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7.6
tv
Airwolf
as Amelia Davenport
1984
7.0
movie
Foreign Correspondent
as Carol Fisher
1940
7.5
tv
Murder, She Wrote
as Constance Fletcher
1984
6.3
tv
The Love Boat
as Vera Simpson
1977
6.6
movie
The Glass Key
as Nurse (uncredited)
1942
6.1
movie
Tarzan Finds a Son!
as Mrs. Richard Lancing
1939
6.9
movie
Stella Dallas
as Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
1937
5.9
movie
The High and the Mighty
as Lydia Rice
1954
7.9
tv
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Ruth
1962
7.0
movie
Mr. Lucky
as Dorothy Bryant
1943
6.3
movie
The Locket
as Nancy
1946
7.0
tv
What's My Line?
as Self
1950