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Laraine Day: Leo Durocher
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As a departure from her noble heroines, Day, now a freelance, played a psychologically disturbed woman who wrecks the lives of four men in The Locket (1946). Although she seemed a most unlikely femme fatale, it worked. Playing a half-Spanish woman who falls for engineer John Wayne in Tycoon (1947), Day looked half-exotic in garish Technicolor. In the same year, she gained a Mexican divorce from dance-band singer James Ray Hendricks, and married Leo Durocher, 15 years her senior. "My life is now Mrs Leo Durocher and baseball comes first," she declared. Nevertheless, she still made a few films.
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Day's marriage to Durocher, in 1947, landed her in a newspaper front-page soap opera that lasted for months. She married Durocher in Texas, one day after being granted an interlocutory decree — a temporary court order, now seldom used — setting forth terms of divorce from her first husband, the singer Ray Hendricks, in California. Because that divorce would not be final for a year, a California superior court judge tried to revoke it, citing "collusion and fraud." The solution, months later, allowed her to stay married in 47 of the 48 states in the union at the time but ruled that cohabiting with her new husband in California would be bigamy.
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Day was ... a broadcast pioneer. In 1951 she became 1 of the first women to host a television program, "The Laraine Day Show." And she also wrote a memoir that year called "Day With Giants," about her marriage to baseball manager Leo Durocher (duh-ROH'-chur). They divorced in 1960, but she was present in 1994 when he was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Shortly after her divorce from Durocher, Day married television producer Michael Grilikhes in 1960. She and Grilikhes had two daughters, Dana (b. 1962) and Gigi (b. 1964). After their births, Day rarely appeared in films, and only occasionally appeared on TV, portraying matronly types. Day was devoted to the raising of her two daughters, and largely retired from film and television to spend time with her family and be active in her church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
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When television became a viable income source, Day found the small screen more inviting and less time-consuming than making movies, and she became primarily a TV actress. She had a 15-minute series of uplifting vignettes called Daydreaming with Laraine, and another 15-minute daily celebrity chat show called The Laraine Day Show. Married to New York Giants manager Leo Durocher, Day became one of TV's first female sports reporters when she hosted Day with the Giants, an early 1950s baseball talk show with Giants' players that aired on New York City's Channel 11.
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Durocher died in 1991, and Ms. Day was present in 1994 when Durocher was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ms. Day's first husband was singer Ray Hendricks. - AP
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