Related Articles

Day Laraine Biography

American actress and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star. One of eight children in an affluent Mormon family, she had a twin brother, Lamar. In 1939 she signed with MGM, and became popular and well-known as "Nurse Mary Lamont", the title characters fiancee in a string of seven "Dr. Kildare" movies beginning with Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), with Lew Ayres in the title role. Her roles for other studios were often far more stimulating than those MGM gave her, including a prominent supporting part in the Irish melodrama My Son, My Son! (1940). She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940) with Joel McCrea, and the psychological mystery The Locket (1946) with Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, and Gene Raymond. In 1941 she was voted the number one "star of tomorrow" in Hollywood. She was paired opposite major film stars, including Lana Turner, Cary Grant, and John Wayne, and hosted a TV show alternately called Daydreaming With Laraine or The Laraine Day Show (1951). Having married three times (five children), she died in Ivins, Utah, on November 10, 2007. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less