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Day's and Durocher's marriage lasted 13 years. Day took such a huge interest in baseball that she became known as the "First Lady of Baseball." A radio show in which she interviewed baseball players led to a 1951 variety program on ABC television called The Laraine Day Show as well as an evening TV series which revolved around sports figures. In 1953 she and Durocher hosted a sports series called Double Play with Durocher and Day. Meanwhile, her big-screen appearances waned, though she did make an impression in The High and the Mighty (1954). Day was the first to admit her new professional emphasis: "My life is Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball comes first," she declared.
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Her public speaking in junior high attracted the attention of Elias Day, the highly regarded acting coach who was the main directing talent for the Long Beach Community Players, soon after the theater group was taking form in 1929. Throughout his tenure at the Long Beach institution he helped bring fame to other hometowners - Robert Mitchum and Lawrence Welk dancer Bobby Burgess among them.
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Paramount had signed Day to a six-month contract at $150 a week after she graduated from high school in 1937. According to an oral history Day taped for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1997, her contract was dropped after she tested for a three-line part in the De Mille film "The Buccaneer." Not only did the director turn her down for the role, she said he ... told Paramount that she had no talent and should be dropped.
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