Laraine Day
Birthday
1920/10/13
Day of death
2007/11/10 (87 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Roosevelt, Utah, USA
Also know as
Laraine Johnson , La Raine Johnson
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1940) Foreign Correspondent
as Carol Fisher
(1950) The Woman on Pier 13
as Nan Lowry Collins
(1939) Tarzan Finds a Son!
as Mrs. Richard Lancing
(1942) The Glass Key
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1960) The 3rd Voice
as Marian Forbes
(1949) Without Honor
as Jane Bandle
(1942) Journey for Margaret
as Nora Davis
(1946) The Locket
as Nancy
(1942) Fingers at the Window
as Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
(1943) Mr. Lucky
as Dorothy Bryant
(1954) The High and the Mighty
as Lydia Rice
(1948) My Dear Secretary
as Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
(1958) Swiss Family Robinson
as Mother
(1941) Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1944) The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Madeleine
(1947) Tycoon
as Maura Alexander Munroe
(1940) Dr. Kildare Goes Home
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1941) Unholy Partners
as Miss 'Croney' Cronin
(1942) A Yank on the Burma Road
as Gail Farwood
(1940) Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1975) Murder on Flight 502
as Claire Garwood
(1939) Calling Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1940) Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1939) The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1941) The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
as Nurse Mary Lamont
(1940) And One Was Beautiful
as Kate Lattimer
(1940) I Take This Woman
as Linda Rodgers
(1945) Keep Your Powder Dry
as Leigh Rand
(1939) Sergeant Madden
as Eileen Daly
(1944) Bride by Mistake
as Norah Hunter
(1956) Three for Jamie Dawn
as Sue Lorenz
(1956) Toy Tiger
as Gwendolyn Taylor
(1940) My Son, My Son!
as Maeve O’Riordan
(1937) Stella Dallas
as Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
(1978) Return to Fantasy Island
as Mrs. Grant
(1941) Kathleen
as Martha Kent
(1945) Those Endearing Young Charms
as Helen Brandt
(1939) Arizona Legion
as Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
(1938) Painted Desert
as Carol Banning
(1938) Border G-Man
as Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
(1941) The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Mary Dugan
(1941) The Bad Man
as Lucia Pell
(1940) A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
(1939) Think First
as Marjorie (Margie) Smith
(1944) Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1938) Scandal Street
as Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
(1942) Mr. Gardenia Jones
as Joanne
(1955) Too Old for Dolls
as Marge Ramsay
(1955) The Final Tribute
as Joyce Carter
(1956) Prima Donna
as Laraine Day
(1956) Rendezvous in Black
as Florence Strickland
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Constance Fletcher
(1963) Burke's Law
as Lisa Cole
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Helen York
(1984) Airwolf
as Amelia Davenport
(1982) Hotel
as Mrs. Kupchak
(1969) Medical Center
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Sophie
(1950) Your Show of Shows
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mrs. Lorenz
(1954) Climax!
as Ellen Parker
(1972) The Sixth Sense
as ---
(1961) The New Breed
as Vivian Cowley
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Carol Potter
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Karen McCall
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Charlotte Vale
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Louise Howell
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Sara Lewis
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Lynn
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Claire Brandon
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Lydia
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Phyllis Dietrichson
(1958) Pursuit
as Kathy Nelson
(1960) Checkmate
as Amnesiac Woman
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Grace Jellicoe
(1977) The Love Boat
as Vera Simpson
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1955) Screen Director's Playhouse
as Laraine Day
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Ruth