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Laraine Day: John Wayne
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A tumultuous love story (with co-star Laraine Day), a dynamite supporting cast, horizon-spanning location filming and brilliant Technicolor make Tycoon exciting entertainment. But the biggest thrill is watching Wayne as a bold, bare-knuckled railroad honcho high above an Andean gorge in a breathless grand finale that includes a half-built bridge, an onrushing wall of water, and a locomotive with Duke at the controls.
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In 1946, Ms. Day had signed a contract at RKO for one picture a year for five years at a salary of $100,000 a movie, but only two films were made. She played a psychopathic killer in “The Locket” (1946) and a rich girl who is disinherited when she marries a railroad builder (John Wayne) in “Tycoon” (1947). Her last significant film roles were in “The High and the Mighty” (1954), the first of the airplane disaster movies, and “The Third Voice” (1960).
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Day was born LaRaine Johnson in Utah, one of eight children of a wealthy grain dealer. Her grandfather had been a prominent Mormon pioneer leader and the father of 52 children by various wives. Day, who never smoked, drank or swore, retained her Mormon faith throughout her life.
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The wealthy John Willis (Gene Raymond) is a happy man, who is today about to marry the charming Nancy Patton (an alias last name for the Laraine Day character). He seems to be very content with his choice of bride, even though he doesn't know much about her and his parents haven't met her until now. John is suddenly confronted by a stranger bursting into his house who identifies himself as Dr. Blair (Aherne), a psychoanalyst and Nancy's former husband. That surprises him. She never told him that she was married before. Blair tells the startled John that he has something urgent to tell him about Nancy and warns him not to be fooled by her amiable exterior, she is a sick woman with a history of kleptomania and will ruin him like she did her other lovers.
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