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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2017 1:36:40 GMT
Laraine Day was born on October 13th, 1920 in Roosevelt, Utah, USA. I always enjoy seeing her in movies. She brought a deft touch to light comedy and could handle heavy drama too. Like one of my favourite actresses working today, Amy Adams, Day was raised in a Mormon family. What are your favourite moments in the career of Laraine Day? Thanks.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 4, 2017 2:26:30 GMT
Nurse Mary Lamont in the Dr. Kildare series opposite Barrymore and Lew Ayres.
Was a great Noir femme fatale in THE LOCKET -- luring three men to their doom.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2017 2:33:54 GMT
Nurse Mary Lamont in the Dr. Kildare series opposite Barrymore and Lew Ayres. Was a great Noir femme fatale in THE LOCKET -- luring three men to their doom. I'm not too familiar with 'Dr Kildare' outside of basic recognition, but I do like 'The Locket'.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 4, 2017 6:20:55 GMT
Day was at her best when playing saucy, self-possessed and somewhat combative women. Abundantly attractive without the burden of being a glamour queen, such forthright and assertive characters - as those in Foreign Correspondent and Mr. Lucky - were right up her alley. Later, she effectively turned those traits unsympathetic as the wealthy and domineering wife of an unsuccessful businessman in The High And the Mighty, lording her money and his failures over her long-suffering husband.
Yet she could equally embody both a softer side and a comic edge, as she did as the bewildered secretary to antic and irrepressible author Kirk Douglas in My Dear Secretary and, as with Douglas, she held her own opposite strong screen personalities from Cary Grant and John Wayne to Gary Cooper and Edward G. Robinson. While never quite attaining front-rank status as a leading lady, she could always be counted upon to deliver the goods while bringing her own special spirit to her roles.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 4, 2017 10:23:19 GMT
Day was at her best when playing saucy, self-possessed and somewhat combative women. Abundantly attractive without the burden of being a glamour queen, such forthright and assertive characters - as those in Foreign Correspondent and Mr. Lucky - were right up her alley. Later, she effectively turned those traits unsympathetic as the wealthy and domineering wife of an unsuccessful businessman in The High And the Mighty, lording her money and his failures over her long-suffering husband. Yet she could equally embody both a softer side and a comic edge, as she did as the bewildered secretary to antic and irrepressible author Kirk Douglas in My Dear Secretary and, as with Douglas, she held her own opposite strong screen personalities from Cary Grant and John Wayne to Gary Cooper and Edward G. Robinson. While never quite attaining front-rank status as a leading lady, she could always be counted upon to deliver the goods while bringing her own special spirit to her roles. 'Mr Lucky' is a delightful film. I've not seen 'My Dear Secretary', thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 4, 2017 16:24:32 GMT
I am a big fan of "Foreign Correspomdent," one of the only two Hitchcock films to be nominated for best picture. "Mr. Lucky" is also very good.
Laraine and I graduated from the same high school. She donated to the school's Hall of Fame a silver train locomotive model that was given to her by John Wayne to commemorate the making of the film, "Tycoon" together. This was part of a scholarship fundraiser where one item was donate for display and one was put up for auction. I don't know what she put up for auction, but my father came home with a coffee mug autographed by John Wayne with a logo from his film, "The Green Berets," that was donated by Robert Morrison, brother of the Duke.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 4, 2017 16:55:47 GMT
..wasn't she married to Leo Durocher at one time???
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 4, 2017 17:07:37 GMT
'Mr Lucky' is a delightful film. I've not seen 'My Dear Secretary', thanks for the recommendation. My Dear Secretary has long been in the public domain (Day's a blonde in this one). It's the kind of film that Fred MacMurray and Rosalind Russell might have done a decade earlier: part goofy comedy and part marital discord/professional rivalry. Wonderful supporting cast: Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee, Irene Ryan (who sings a song Wynn has written about sinus congestion!), Alan Mowbray, Florence Bates (to whom Wynn quips, "Must you go? I was just poisoning the tea"), Gale Robbins, Grady Sutton, Helen Walker.
Been many years since I've seen it, but I remember it being fun.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 4, 2017 18:01:23 GMT
..wasn't she married to Leo Durocher at one time??? Yes she was, Kos -- sort of a version of 'Beauty and the Beast.'
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Post by petrolino on Jun 6, 2017 17:33:42 GMT
I am a big fan of "Foreign Correspomdent," one of the only two Hitchcock films to be nominated for best picture. "Mr. Lucky" is also very good. Laraine and I graduated from the same high school. She donated to the school's Hall of Fame a silver train locomotive model that was given to her by John Wayne to commemorate the making of the film, "Tycoon" together. This was part of a scholarship fundraiser where one item was donate for display and one was put up for auction. I don't know what she put up for auction, but my father came home with a coffee mug autographed by John Wayne with a logo from his film, "The Green Berets," that was donated by Robert Morrison, brother of the Duke. That's so cool. Did you hang out with her?
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 7, 2017 16:12:13 GMT
I am a big fan of "Foreign Correspomdent," one of the only two Hitchcock films to be nominated for best picture. "Mr. Lucky" is also very good. Laraine and I graduated from the same high school. She donated to the school's Hall of Fame a silver train locomotive model that was given to her by John Wayne to commemorate the making of the film, "Tycoon" together. This was part of a scholarship fundraiser where one item was donate for display and one was put up for auction. I don't know what she put up for auction, but my father came home with a coffee mug autographed by John Wayne with a logo from his film, "The Green Berets," that was donated by Robert Morrison, brother of the Duke. That's so cool. Did you hang out with her? Laraine graduated about 35 years before me. The only movie star I went to school with already had her career over by the time we graduated: Julie Allred, who was the young Baby Jane in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" Laraine would have been at the school after Van Heflin and his good friend, band leader Spike Jones, but at about the same time as character actor Anthony Caruso. The school is now famous for rapper Snoop Dogg and dropout cheerleader Cameron Diaz and having more football players in the NFL than any other high school. Opera singer Marilyn Horne sang our school song on the Tonight Show. A real piece of trivia is that during the Depression, artwork was commissioned by the PWA, and sculpting was done by the guy who sculpted the Oscar from Cedric Gibbon's design. That ends my display of pride in Long Beach Polytechnic High School.😋
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Post by petrolino on Jun 7, 2017 16:47:07 GMT
That's so cool. Did you hang out with her? Laraine graduated about 35 years before me. The only movie star I went to school with already had her career over by the time we graduated: Julie Allred, who was the young Baby Jane in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" Laraine would have been at the school after Van Heflin and his good friend, band leader Spike Jones, but at about the same time as character actor Anthony Caruso. The school is now famous for rapper Snoop Dogg and dropout cheerleader Cameron Diaz and having more football players in the NFL than any other high school. Opera singer Marilyn Horne sang our school song on the Tonight Show. A real piece of trivia is that during the Depression, artwork was commissioned by the PWA, and sculpting was done by the guy who sculpted the Oscar from Cedric Gibbon's design. That ends my display of pride in Long Beach Polytechnic High School.😋 Oh wow, Van Heflin's awesome. Here's a couple of musical greats I think may have attended your school : singer Jo Stafford and Lita Ford of the Runaways!
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 7, 2017 16:58:44 GMT
I know that Jo Stanford did, as well as singer Kenny Baker who starred in "The Mikado" and The Goldwyn Follies."
I wrote for the school paper and covered Marilyn Horne's Metropolitan Opera debut as well as Van Heflin"s appearance in "Airport." Marilyn's brother-in-law was my string bass teacher at the time.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 7, 2017 18:58:42 GMT
I've seen too few to have any real oppinion about her.
Tarzan Finds a Son! 1939, she's the 8th name on the poster, and I had totally forgot she was in it.
Foreign Correspondent 1940, well I though she and Joel made a good couple.
The High and the Mighty 1954, as passanger Mrs Rice with John Howard (who's career was very quickly spiraling down) as Mr Rice.
Murder She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top TV 2 parter 1986, her last acting role, playing an unpleasant snob.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 8, 2017 16:46:27 GMT
Nurse Mary Lamont in the Dr. Kildare series opposite Barrymore and Lew Ayres. Was a great Noir femme fatale in THE LOCKET -- luring three men to their doom. Oh, this was an excellent film!!! Good choice!
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Post by petrolino on Sept 30, 2017 20:33:56 GMT
Laraine Day stars alongside John Wayne in Richard Wallace's big budget Technicolor adventure 'Tycoon' (1947). I read that this was the most expensive production RKO Pictures had commissioned up to that point in time. It's an epic love story with some construction disasters incurred by the building of a mountain railroad tunnel. Day wears a wide range of eye-popping outfits. In my favourite scene, she wears a sky blue bow in her hair and sky blue gloves, with a matching cyan waistcoat. The Duke invites her to dinner but gets frisky by a rock circle when two parrots perform a love dance nearby. The couple are scorched by a burning red sun and plunged into an evening shade burnished by a darkening sky. It's a scene of extraordinary beauty. In her next appearance, Day visits the mine wearing a checkered multi-blue tablecloth jacket and white gloves with a navy blue knee-length skirt. The film itself is too drawn out for my liking but has some striking moments.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 30, 2017 21:09:47 GMT
Yes you are right, Tycoon bombed at the Box Office
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Post by kijii on Oct 1, 2017 0:06:49 GMT
One of my first thoughts about her is "Leo Durocher's wife."
Did she ever play in an evil role?
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Post by petrolino on Oct 6, 2017 21:51:50 GMT
One of my first thoughts about her is "Leo Durocher's wife." Did she ever play in an evil role? I don't recall seeing her in an evil role. Slightly dubious in nature, but not outright evil.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 6, 2017 23:32:53 GMT
Foreign Correspondent. One of my favorite Hitchcock movies.
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