LARAINE DAY

'Laraine Day' (b. 'Laraine Johnson' on October 13, 1920 in Roosevelt, Utah) is an American actress. A descendant of a prominent Mormon pioneer leader, she moved with her family from Utah to California, where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players.
In 1937 she debuted onscreen in a bit part in ''Stella Dallas''; shortly afterwards she won lead roles in several George O'Brien westerns at RKO, in which she was billed as "Laraine Hays" and then 'Laraine Johnson'. In 1939 she signed with MGM, going on to become popular and well-known (billed as 'Laraine Day') as "Nurse Mary Lamont", the title character's fiancee in a string of seven "Dr. Kildare" movies beginning with ''Calling Dr. Kildare'' (1939); Lew Ayres played Dr. Kildare.
During the '40s and '50s, she played a variety of leads in medium-budget films made by several studios. She rarely appeared in films after 1960, but later occasionally appeared on TV, portraying matronly types. She was married to famous baseball manager Leo Durocher from 1947-1960, when she was sometimes referred to as "the first lady of baseball". While Durocher was managing the New York Giants, Day wrote a book with the punning title ''Day With Giants''.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Laraine Day has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6676 Hollywood Blvd.

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Selected filmography

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Selected filmography

★ ''My Son, My Son!'' (1939)

★ ''Calling Dr. Kildare'' (1939)

★ ''The Secret of Dr. Kildare'' (1939)

★ ''Dr. Kildare's Strange Case'' (1940)

★ ''Foreign Correspondence'' (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock

★ ''Dr. Kildare Goes Home'' (1940)

★ ''Dr. Kildare's Crisis'' (1940)

★ ''The Bad Man'' (1941) with Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, and Ronald Reagan

★ ''The People vs. Dr. Kildare'' (1941)

★ ''Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day'' (1941)

★ ''Unholy Partners'' (1941) with Edward G. Robinson

★ ''Fingers at the Window'' (1942)

★ ''Mr. Lucky'' (1943) with Cary Grant

★ ''The Story of Dr. Wassell'' (1944)

★ ''The Locket'' (1946) with Robert Mitchum

★ ''Tycoon'' (1947) with John Wayne

★ ''I Married a Communist'' (1949) with Robert Ryan

★ ''My Dear Secretary'' (1949)

★ ''Without Honor'' (1949)

★ ''The High and the Mighty'' (1954) with John Wayne

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