Laraine Day Quotes

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

  Laraine Day

  Winning, Awards, Academy Awards

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• 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

  Christian, Men, People

  "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

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

  Laraine Day

  Daughter, Doors, Half

  "Fictional character: Nancy Monks Blair Patton". "The Locket", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1946.

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

  Laraine Day

  Enjoyed, Mgm

  "Talking With Laraine Day". Classic Images Magazine Interview, May 31, 1996.

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• [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

  Giving, Dry, Want

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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

  Laraine Day

  Roles, Break, Casts

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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• 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

  Years, Birth, Source

  "A Conversation with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

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