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. Kildare's Wedding Day. As Mrs Kildare, she was written out of the next, and last, Kildare feature.…
Filmography
Swiss Family Robinson
1958 · 10.0
Those Endearing Young Charms
1945 · 9.0
Pursuit
1958 · 8.0
Twenty Years After
1944 · 8.0
Scandal Street
1938 · 8.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · 7.9
The New Breed
1961 · 7.7
Think First
1939 · 7.7
Airwolf
1984 · 7.6
Unholy Partners
1941 · 7.6
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · 7.5
Sergeant Madden
1939 · 7.5
Your Show of Shows
1950 · 7.2
Mr. Lucky
1943 · 7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · 7.2
The Name of the Game
1968 · 7.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · 7.0
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941 · 7.0
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · 7.0
Stella Dallas
1937 · 6.9
Toy Tiger
1956 · 6.9
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
1941 · 6.8
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940 · 6.8
Hotel
1982 · 6.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 6.7
And One Was Beautiful
1940 · 6.7
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940 · 6.7
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939 · 6.7
Journey for Margaret
1942 · 6.7
Bride by Mistake
1944 · 6.7
The Glass Key
1942 · 6.7
Letter to Loretta
1953 · 6.6
Fantasy Island
1978 · 6.5
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956 · 6.5
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941 · 6.5
Medical Center
1969 · 6.4
The Sixth Sense
1972 · 6.3
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 · 6.3
The Locket
1946 · 6.3
The Love Boat
1977 · 6.2
Burke's Law
1963 · 6.2
Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939 · 6.1
My Dear Secretary
1948 · 6.1
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 · 6.1
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945 · 6.1
Return to Fantasy Island
1978 · 6.0
Kathleen
1941 · 6.0
Painted Desert
1938 · 6.0
The High and the Mighty
1954 · 5.9
The 3rd Voice
1960 · 5.9
The Bad Man
1941 · 5.9
Murder on Flight 502
1975 · 5.8
I Take This Woman
1940 · 5.8
Fingers at the Window
1942 · 5.7
A Yank on the Burma Road
1942 · 5.7
The F.B.I.
1965 · 5.6
Tycoon
1947 · 5.6
Border G-Man
1938 · 5.6
Arizona Legion
1939 · 5.5
The Woman on Pier 13
1950 · 5.3
Mr. Gardenia Jones
1942 · 5.0
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940 · 4.9
Checkmate
1960 · 4.8
My Son, My Son!
1940 · 4.8
Without Honor
1949 · 4.7
Climax!
1954 · 3.8
Prima Donna
1956 · 0.0
Too Old for Dolls
1955 · 0.0
Rendezvous in Black
1956 · 0.0
The Final Tribute
1955 · 0.0