Laraine Day
Born in Roosevelt, Utah, USA — Oct 13 1920• Died Nov 10 2007
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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 Kildare movies, until her character married the doctor in Dr…
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Laraine Day's Credits
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Murder, She Wrote
Constance Fletcher
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Ruth
The Love Boat
Vera Simpson
Climax!
Ellen Parker
Airwolf
Amelia Davenport
Medical Center
Hotel
Mrs. Kupchak
The F.B.I.
Helen York
Burke's Law
Lisa Cole
The Name of the Game
Grace Jellicoe
What's My Line?
Self
Checkmate
Amnesiac Woman
The New Breed
Vivian Cowley
Screen Director's Playhouse
Laraine Day
Lux Video Theatre
Sophie
Your Show of Shows
The Sixth Sense
Letter to Loretta
Carol Potter
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Mrs. Lorenz
General Electric Theater
Pursuit
Kathy Nelson
Foreign Correspondent
Carol Fisher
The High and the Mighty
Lydia Rice
My Dear Secretary
Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
Fingers at the Window
Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
The Locket
Nancy
Stella Dallas
Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky
Dorothy Bryant
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Madeleine
My Son, My Son!
Maeve O’Riordan
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Bride by Mistake
Norah Hunter
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Nurse Mary Lamont
The Bad Man
Lucia Pell
Sergeant Madden
Eileen Daly
Border G-Man
Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
Return to Fantasy Island
Mrs. Grant
Calling Dr. Kildare
Nurse Mary Lamont
The Glass Key
Nurse (uncredited)
Think First
Marjorie (Margie) Smith
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Nurse Mary Lamont
Toy Tiger
Gwendolyn Taylor
And One Was Beautiful
Kate Lattimer
Without Honor
Jane Bandle
Scandal Street
Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
Murder on Flight 502
Claire Garwood
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Mrs. Richard Lancing
The Woman on Pier 13
Nan Lowry Collins
Arizona Legion
Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
Tycoon
Maura Alexander Munroe
Prima Donna
Laraine Day
Rendezvous in Black
Florence Strickland
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Nurse Mary Lamont
Keep Your Powder Dry
Leigh Rand
Painted Desert
Carol Banning
Those Endearing Young Charms
Helen Brandt
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Nurse Mary Lamont
Too Old for Dolls
Marge Ramsay
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Nurse Mary Lamont
Unholy Partners
Miss 'Croney' Cronin
The 3rd Voice
Marian Forbes
Journey for Margaret
Nora Davis
Kathleen
Martha Kent
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Nurse Mary Lamont
A Yank on the Burma Road
Gail Farwood
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Dugan
I Take This Woman
Linda Rodgers
Three for Jamie Dawn
Sue Lorenz
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Joanne
Swiss Family Robinson
Frannie (Mother)
The Final Tribute
Joyce Carter