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Laraine Day

Acting · Born October 13, 1920 · 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, she was written out of the next, and last, Kildare feature.

Movies with Laraine Day

• Foreign Correspondent (1940) — Carol Fisher
• Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) — Mrs. Richard Lancing
• The High and the Mighty (1954) — Lydia Rice
• Mr. Lucky (1943) — Dorothy Bryant
• The Locket (1946) — Nancy
• Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) — Sue Lorenz
• Fingers at the Window (1942) — Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
• The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) — Madeleine
• My Dear Secretary (1948) — Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
• Murder on Flight 502 (1975) — Claire Garwood
• Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) — Leigh Rand
• I Take This Woman (1940) — Linda Rodgers