Laraine Day

Personal Info

Birthday

October 13, 1920

Day of Death

2007-11-10

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Roosevelt, Utah, USA

Also Known As

Laraine Johnson

La Raine Johnson

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.

Known For

Murder, She Wrote

The Love Boat

Climax!

Airwolf

The Name of the Game

Hotel

The F.B.I.

Burke's Law

Filmography

1978
Return to Fantasy Island
as Mrs. Grant
1975
Murder on Flight 502
as Claire Garwood
1960
The 3rd Voice
as Marian Forbes
1958
Swiss Family Robinson
as Mother
1956
Rendezvous in Black
as Florence Strickland
Three for Jamie Dawn
as Sue Lorenz
Toy Tiger
as Gwendolyn Taylor
Prima Donna
as Laraine Day
1955
The Final Tribute
as Joyce Carter
Too Old for Dolls
as Marge Ramsay
1954
The High and the Mighty
as Lydia Rice
1950
The Woman on Pier 13
as Nan Lowry Collins
1949
Without Honor
as Jane Bandle
1948
My Dear Secretary
as Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
1947
Tycoon
as Maura Alexander Munroe
1946
The Locket
as Nancy
1945
Those Endearing Young Charms
as Helen Brandt
Keep Your Powder Dry
as Leigh Rand
1944
Bride by Mistake
as Norah Hunter
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Madeleine
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1943
Mr. Lucky
as Dorothy Bryant
1942
Journey for Margaret
as Nora Davis
The Glass Key
as Nurse (uncredited)
Mr. Gardenia Jones
as Joanne
Fingers at the Window
as Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
A Yank on the Burma Road
as Mrs. Gail Farwood
1941
Kathleen
as Martha Kent
Unholy Partners
as Miss 'Croney' Cronin
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Nurse Mary Lamont
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
The Bad Man
as Lucia Pell
The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mary Dugan
1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Nurse Mary Lamont
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
as Nurse Mary Lamont
Foreign Correspondent
as Carol Fisher
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
as Nurse Mary Lamont
And One Was Beautiful
as Kate Lattimer
My Son, My Son!
as Maeve O’Riordan
I Take This Woman
as Linda Rodgers
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
Think First
as Marjorie (Margie) Smith
Tarzan Finds a Son!
as Mrs. Richard Lancing
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
Sergeant Madden
as Eileen Daly
Arizona Legion
as Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
1938
Painted Desert
as Carol Banning
Border G-Man
as Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
Scandal Street
as Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
1937
Stella Dallas
as Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)