Laraine Day
Acting
Born October 13, 1920 · Roosevelt, Utah, USA
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. Kildare's Wedding Day. As Mrs Kildare,…
Known For · 40 titles
The Love Boat
Murder, She Wrote
What's My Line?
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Climax!
Airwolf
Burke's Law
The F.B.I.
Hotel
Medical Center
The Name of the Game
Checkmate
Your Show of Shows
Screen Director's Playhouse
Lux Video Theatre
The New Breed
The Sixth Sense
Letter to Loretta
General Electric Theater
Foreign Correspondent
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The High and the Mighty
Pursuit
Think First
Mr. Lucky
Twenty Years After
Tarzan Finds a Son!
The Glass Key
The Locket
Stella Dallas
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Tycoon
The Woman on Pier 13
My Dear Secretary
Murder on Flight 502
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Return to Fantasy Island
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Prima Donna
A Yank on the Burma Road