About
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. In 1942, she starred with Ayres again in the underrated axe murder melodrama Fingers at the Window. Over subsequent decades, her memorable films included the flashback-within-flashback-within-flashback drama The Locket, the gangster...
Known for
The Love BoatSeries • 1977
Murder, She WroteSeries • 1984
AirwolfSeries • 1984
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries • 1962
Climax!Series • 1954
Fantasy IslandSeries • 1978
HotelSeries • 1982
Medical CenterSeries • 1969
The F.B.I.Series • 1965
Burke's LawSeries • 1963
The Name of the GameSeries • 1968
CheckmateSeries • 1960
Your Show of ShowsSeries • 1950
Lux Video TheatreSeries • 1950
The New BreedSeries • 1961
Screen Director's PlayhouseSeries • 1955
The Sixth SenseSeries • 1972
The High and the MightyMovie • 1954
Foreign CorrespondentMovie • 1940
The Story of Dr. WassellMovie • 1944
Tarzan Finds a Son!Movie • 1939
My Dear SecretaryMovie • 1948
The LocketMovie • 1946
The Glass KeyMovie • 1942