Personal Info
Known Credits
49
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1920-10-13 (105 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Roosevelt, Utah, USA
Also Known For
Laraine Johnson La Raine Johnson
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)