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Laraine Day: Foreign Correspondent
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Actress Laraine Day, who appeared in nearly 50 films including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Foreign Correspondent," died of natural causes on Nov. 10 at her daughter's home in Utah. She was 87.
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Born in Utah of a distinguished Mormon family, Day began acting in westerns in her teens, and by 1941 was popular as nurse Mary Lamont in a series of Dr. Kildare movies. But after she had success in more ambitious films, for instance Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," MGM determined to liberate her. In "Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day" (1941), she got out of the marriage and the film series by being run over by a truck. The Los Angeles Times called MGM's ploy "the most drastic means ever taken in Hollywood to elevate a young actress to great stardom." It ... reported that "Miss Day was one of the deepest-dyed planners of her own demise."
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Day was lent out to United Artists for Alfred Hitchcock's second Hollywood movie, Foreign Correspondent (1940). She played the daughter of Herbert Marshall, who heads a peace organization, although she does not know that it is a front for fifth columnists. Joel McCrea, on the run with her from Nazi agents, says: "I'm in love with you and I want to marry you." She replies: "I'm in love with you and I want to marry you!" "That cuts our love scene down quite a bit, doesn't it?" he retorts.
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Day appeared in such film classics as Alfred Hitchcock's ``Foreign Correspondent'' with Joel McRea and ``The High and the Mighty'' with John Wayne. Her final film was ``The Third Voice'' in 1960.
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