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Laraine Day (October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007)〔(Laraine Day, ‘B+ Movie’ Star, Dies at 87 )〕 was an American actress and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star. ==Career== Day was born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, one of eight children in an affluent Mormon family. She had a twin brother, Lamar. The family later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players. She was a 1938 graduate of Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California. In 1937, Day debuted onscreen in a bit part in ''Stella Dallas''. Shortly afterwards, she won lead roles in several George O'Brien westerns at RKO, in which she was billed as "Laraine Hays" and then "Laraine Johnson". In 1939 she signed with MGM, and became popular and well-known (billed as Laraine Day) as "Nurse Mary Lamont", the title character's 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). During a time when she had a break in her film career she made her stage debut opposite Gregory Peck in the national theatre tour of ''Angel Street''. She also made other stage appearances in ''Lost Horizon'', the 1973 revival of ''The Women'', and a revival of ''The Time of the Cuckoo''.〔http://www.legacy.com/NS/Obituary.aspx?pid=97835077〕 In the 1940s she made guest appearances on radio in both ''Lux Radio Theatre'' and ''The Screen Guild Theater''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laraine Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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