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Laraine Day: Series
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Douglas is a playboy writer, and Laraine Day, his secretary, is ... a beginning writer. Their farcical antics are greatly supported by cast members Florence Bates, Irene Ryan and especially Keenan Wynn, who practically steals the show as Douglas’ roommate. Fans of Douglas will enjoy this lighter side of the multi-talented actor who, incidentally, was eager to do comedy after being in so many serious roles.
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Laraine Day, a ladylike leading lady who appeared in almost two dozen MGM films between 1939 and 1945, notably as the nurse Mary Lamont in the series of Dr. Kildare movies, died Saturday in Ivins, Utah. She was 87.
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Never a major star, Ms. Day was relegated to what she called “B+ movies” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1939 to 1945. She was almost the victim of an ax murderer in “Fingers at the Window” (1942), was married to a traitor in “A Yank on the Burma Road” (1942) and served as the intrepid newspaper publisher Edward G. Robinson’s girl Friday in “Unholy Partners” (1941).
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Never a major star, Day was relegated to what she called "B(plus) movies" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She was almost the victim of an ax murderer in "Fingers at the Window" (1942), was married to a traitor in "Yank on the Burma Road" (1942) and served as the intrepid newspaper publisher Edward G. Robinson's girl Friday in "Unholy Partners" (1941).
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"Kildare, Maisie and the Andy Hardy pictures were the bread-and-butter pictures for MGM," Ms. Day said in her oral history. "Through those three series, they could afford Garbo and Crawford and Shearer, and they could make the big pictures."
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