Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Laraine Day

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Laraine Day was an American actress, radio and television commentator and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star. As a leading lady, she was paired opposite major film stars including Robert Mitchum, Lana Turner, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, Kirk Douglas, and John Wayne. As well as her numerous film and television roles, she acted on stage, conducted her own radio and television shows, and wrote two books. Owing to her marriage to Leo Durocher and her involvement with his baseball career, she was known as "The First Lady of Baseball". Her best-known films include Foreign Correspondent, My Son, My Son, Journey for Margaret, Mr. Lucky, The Locket, and the Dr. Kildare series.

American - Actress | October 13, 1920 - November 10, 2007

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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

Laraine Day

I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

Laraine Day

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

Laraine Day

I am very much a Republican.

Laraine Day

Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

Laraine Day

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

Laraine Day

Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

Laraine Day

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

Laraine Day

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

Laraine Day

Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.

Laraine Day

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

Laraine Day

[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

Laraine Day

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

Laraine Day

A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

Laraine Day

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Laraine Day

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