Laraine Day Biography (1920-)

Born La Raine Johnson, October 13, 1920, in Roosevelt, UT; daughter of Clarence Irvin and Ada May (maiden name, Rich) Johnson; married James Ray Hendricks(a singer), May 16, 1942 (divorced); married Leo Durocher (a baseball manager), January 21, 1947 (divorced 1960); married Michel Grilikhes, 1961; children: (first marriage) Christopher Day, Melinda Michele; (third marriage) Dana Laraine, Gigi Jeanine. Religion: Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Career: Actress. Had television sports interview show on WPIX-TV, New York City, 1950; nightly interview series, WMGM-TV, New York City, 1953. Te Arohanui Maori Company, New Zealand, member of the board; LDG Enterprises Inc., president. Addresses: Contact: Charter Management, 900 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupation: Actress
Birth Details: October 13, 1920; Roosevelt, Utah, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
(Film debut; as Laraine Johnson) Stella Dallas, 1937
Clara, Tough to Handle, 1937
Mary, The Law Commands, 1937
(As Lorraine Hayes) Jane Williams, Doomed to Sundown, 1937
(Uncredited) Mary Lamont, Young Dr. Kildare, 1938
(As Laraine Johnson) Peg Smith, Scandal Sheet, 1938
(As Laraine Johnson) Carol Banning, Painted Desert, 1938
(As Laraine Johnson) Betty Holden, Border G-Men, 1938
Think First, 1939
(As Laraine Johnson) Eileen Daly, Sergeant Madden, 1939
Mary Lamont, Calling Dr. Kildare, 1939
(As Laraine Johnson) Letty Meade, Arizona Legion, 1939
Linda Rodgers, I Take This Woman, 1939
Mrs. Richard Lancing, Tarzan Finds a Son!, 1939
Nurse Mary Lamont, The Secret of Dr. Kildare, 1939
Maeve O'Riordan, My Son, My Son, 1940
Nurse Mary Lamont, Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, 1940
Nurse Mary Lamont, Dr. Kildare Goes Home, 1940
Kate Lattimer, And One Was Beautiful, 1940
Carol Fisher, Foreign Correspondent, 1940
Title role, The Trial of Mary Dugan, 1941
Mary Lamont, The People vs. Dr. Kildare (also known as My LifeIs Yours), 1941
Dr. A. Martha Kent, Kathleen, 1941
Mary Lamont, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (also known as Mary Names the Day), 1941
Lucia Pell, The Bad Man (also known as Two-Gun Cupid), 1941
Miss Cronin, Unholy Partners, 1941
Gail Farwood, Yank on the Burma Road (also known as China Caravan), 1942
Nora Davis, Journey for Margaret, 1942
Mr. Gardenia Jones, 1942
Dorothy Bryant, Mr. Lucky, 1943
Nora, Bride by Mistake, 1944
Madeleine, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Paramount, 1944
Leigh Rand, Keep Your Power Dry, 1945
Helen Brandt, Those Endearing Young Charms, 1945
Nancy, The Locket, 1946
Maura Alexander, Tycoon, 1947
Stephanie Gaylord, My Dear Secretary, 1948
Nan Collins, I Married a Communist (also known as Woman on Pier13), 1949
Jane Bandle, Without Honor, 1949
Lydia Rice, High and the Mighty, Warner Bros., 1953
Gwen Taylor, The Toy Tiger, 1956
Sue Lorenz, Three for Jamie Dawn, 1956
Marian Forbes, The Third Voice, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960

House of Dracula's Daughter, 1973
Also appeared in Let Freedom Ring.
Television Appearances
Series
Host, The Laraine Day Show, ABC, 1951
Host, Daydreaming with Laraine, 1951
Panelist, I've Got a Secret, 1952
Co-host, Double Play, 1953
Double Play with Durocher and Day, 1953
Movies
Claire Garwood, Murder on Flight 502, ABC, 1975
Mrs. Grant, Return to Fantasy Island, ABC, 1978
Specials
Swiss Family Robinson, NBC, 1958
Investigating Tarzan, AMC, 1997
Episodic
"The Crisis," Naish Airflyte, CBS, 1951
"Column Item," Lux Video Theater, CBS, 1951
"It's a Promise," Lux Video Theater, CBS, 1951
"So Many Things Happen," Ford Theater, NBC, 1952
"Hired Mother," G.E. Theater, CBS, 1953
Tale of the City, CBS, 1953
"Women Who Wait," Lux Video Theater, CBS, 1953
"Double Bet," Ford Theater, NBC, 1953
"Turn Back the Clock," Ford Theater, NBC, 1953
"The Legal Beagles," Ford Theater, NBC, 1954
"Double Indemnity," Lux Video Theater, NBC, 1954
"Too Old for Dolls," Ford Theater, NBC, 1955
"Slander," Loretta Young Show, NBC, 1955
"Final Tribute," Screen Directors Playhouse, NBC, 1955
"A Pattern of Deceit," Loretta Young Show, NBC, 1955
"The Prima Donna," Screen Directors Playhouse, NBC, 1956
"Now, Voyager," Lux Video Theater, NBC, 1956
"Rendezvous in Black," Playhouse 90, CBS, 1956
"Woman Who Dare," Ford Theater, ABC, 1956
"Obsessed," Lux Video Theater, NBC, 1957
"Torn," Ford Theater, ABC, 1957
"Bitter Parting," Schlitz Playhouse, CBS, 1957
Person to Person, CBS, 1957
"Man in a Hurry," Loretta Young Show, NBC, 1957
"Tiger on a Bicycle," Pursuit, CBS, 1958
"Alone," Theater "59, NBC, 1959
"Dark As the Night," Playhouse 90, CBS, 1959
"Cage of Air," Moment of Fear, NBC, 1960
"To the Best of My Knowledge," Checkmate, CBS, 1961
"Not Aunt Charlotte," Follow the Sun, ABC, 1962
"A Motive Named Walter," The New Breed, ABC, 1962
Ruth, "Death and the Joyful Woman," The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, CBS, 1963
"Who Killed Billy Jo?," Burke's Law, ABC, 1963
Cassie Vance, "The Cassie Vance Story," Wagon Train, ABC, 1963
"The Taker," Name of the Game, NBC, 1968
"Gamble with Death," The F.B.I., ABC, 1969
"The Heart That Wouldn't Stay Buried," The Sixth Sense, ABC, 1972
Arelene Gillette, "Broken Image," Medical Center, 1973
"Marooned," The Love Boat, ABC, 1978
"The Wedding," Fantasy Island, ABC, 1979
"Hollywood," Lou Grant, CBS, 1979
"Eruption," Airwolf, CBS, 1985
"Second Offense," Hotel, ABC, 1985
Constance Fletcher, "Death Stalks the Big Top: Parts 1 & 2," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1986
Stage Appearances
Appeared in Angel Street, 1950; Growing Pains; Call It aDay; Flyaway Home; Winterset; Private Lives; Victoria Regina; toured with Conflict, U.S. cities.
WRITINGS
Books
Day with the Giants, 1952
(With Lenore Hershey) The America I Love, 1971

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Current Biography 1953, pp. 150-53.*

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