1. Laraine Day's father was a grain dealer and an interpreter for the Ute Indian tribes.
18 Facts About Laraine Day
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Laraine Day's great-grandfather was early Mormon pioneer Charles C Rich.
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Laraine Day attended George Washington Junior High School and was a 1938 graduate of Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California.
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In 1937, Laraine Day debuted on screen in a bit part in Stella Dallas.
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Laraine Day's contract was dropped shortly thereafter because she "lacked talent".
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Laraine Day starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Foreign Correspondent with Joel McCrea and the psychological mystery The Locket with Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, and Gene Raymond.
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Laraine Day was released from her contract with MGM of her own discretion in May 1946 and signed a contract with RKO in December of that year.
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Laraine Day made stage appearances in Lost Horizon, the 1973 revival of The Women, and a revival of The Time of the Cuckoo.
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Laraine Day married her first husband, James Ray Hendricks, on May 16,1942.
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Laraine Day was a dance-band singer who became an airport executive for the Santa Monica airport.
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Laraine Day was granted an interlocutory divorce from Hendricks on January 20,1947, which required her to wait one year before remarrying.
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On January 21,1947, Laraine Day traveled to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where she received a second divorce decree.
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Laraine Day became the first woman to be honored by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association at their annual dinner in 1951.
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Laraine Day was the hostess of Day With the Giants, a 15-minute television interview program broadcast before New York Giants home games.
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Laraine Day was, as she described herself, "very much a Republican".
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Laraine Day was a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon, whom she later met at the 1968 Republican National Convention, citing him as the type who would "go out of his way to help the American people".
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Laraine Day moved back to her native Utah in March 2007 following the death of her third husband.
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Laraine Day's body was taken back to California, and on November 15,2007, a memorial service was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.