Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
1978 -- Return to Fantasy Island | Mrs. Grant
1975 -- Murder on Flight 502 | Claire Garwood
1960 -- The 3rd Voice | Marian Forbes
1958 -- Swiss Family Robinson | Mother
1956 -- Three for Jamie Dawn | Sue Lorenz
1956 -- Toy Tiger | Gwendolyn Taylor
1955 -- The Final Tribute | Joyce Carter
1955 -- Too Old for Dolls | Marge Ramsay
1954 -- The High and the Mighty | Lydia Rice
1950 -- The Woman on Pier 13 | Nan Lowry Collins
1949 -- Without Honor | Jane Bandle
1948 -- My Dear Secretary | Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord
1947 -- Tycoon | Maura Alexander Munroe
1946 -- The Locket | Nancy
1945 -- Those Endearing Young Charms | Helen Brandt
1945 -- Keep Your Powder Dry | Leigh Rand
1944 -- Bride by Mistake | Norah Hunter
1944 -- The Story of Dr. Wassell | Madeleine
1944 -- Twenty Years After | (archive footage)
1943 -- Mr. Lucky | Dorothy Bryant
1942 -- Journey for Margaret | Nora Davis
1942 -- The Glass Key | Nurse (uncredited)
1942 -- Mr. Gardenia Jones | Joanne
1942 -- Fingers at the Window | Edwina 'Eddie' Brown
1942 -- A Yank on the Burma Road | Mrs. Gail Farwood
1941 -- Kathleen | Martha Kent
1941 -- Unholy Partners | Miss 'Croney' Cronin
1941 -- Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Nurse Mary Lamont
1941 -- The People Vs. Dr. Kildare | Nurse Mary Lamont
1941 -- The Bad Man | Lucia Pell
1941 -- The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mary Dugan
1940 -- Dr. Kildare's Crisis | Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 -- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self
1940 -- Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 -- Foreign Correspondent | Carol Fisher
1940 -- Dr. Kildare's Strange Case | Nurse Mary Lamont
1940 -- And One Was Beautiful | Kate Lattimer
1940 -- My Son, My Son! | Maeve O’Riordan
1940 -- I Take This Woman | Linda Rodgers
1939 -- The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Nurse Mary Lamont
1939 -- Think First | Marjorie (Margie) Smith
1939 -- Tarzan Finds a Son! | Mrs. Richard Lancing
1939 -- Calling Dr. Kildare | Nurse Mary Lamont
1939 -- Sergeant Madden | Eileen Daly
1939 -- Arizona Legion | Letty Meade (as Laraine Johnson)
1938 -- Painted Desert | Carol Banning
1938 -- Border G-Man | Betty Holden (as Laraine Johnson)
1938 -- Scandal Street | Peg Smith (as Laraine Johnson)
1937 -- Stella Dallas | Girl at Soda Shop / Train Passenger (uncredited)
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