Laraine Day

Laraine Day

Laraine Day, born La Raine Johnson, was a major movie star of the 1940s and '50s. Raised in Utah as part of a prominent Mormon family, she came to Hollywood as a young woman, and made her film debut with an uncredited role in Stella Dallas. Before she was famous she also played the birth-mother of Tarzan and Jane's adopted son "Boy" in Tarzan Finds a Son. Her break came in 1939, with the wildly popular "Dr Kildare" sequels. Day played Kildare's nurse and love interest in the third through ninth Kildare movies, until her character married the doctor in Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day. As Mrs Kildare, she was written out of the next, and last, Kildare feature. In 1942, she starred with Ayres again in the underrated axe murder melodrama Fingers at the Window. Over subsequent decades, her memorable films included the flashback-within-flashback-within-flashback drama The Locket, the gangster comedy Mr Lucky, and the campy paranoia piece I Married A Communist. She was among the all-star passengers in the overwrought airliner-in-peril drama The High and the Mighty, and in Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent it was Day who encouraged Joel McCrea to give his stirring report of the air raid at the film's climax Hitchcock's thinly-veiled plea for America to enter World War II. 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. Her last film was a low-budget thriller, The Third Voice, in 1960, but she continued taking occasional guest roles on TV series Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, etc. through the mid-1980s. Following her retierment she spent the remainder of her life active in the Mormon church, Republican politics, and various charity related work. Upon the death of her third husband Michael Grilikhes in March 2007 she moved back to her native Utah where she died that November at age 87. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA.​

  • Aha: Laraine Day
  • Ewu ewu: 4.912
  • Mara maka: Acting
  • Ubochi omumu: 1920-10-13
  • Ebe amụrụ onye: Roosevelt, Utah, USA
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  • A makwaara Dị ka: Laraine Johnson , La Raine Johnson
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Laraine Day Ihe nkiri

  • 1940
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    Foreign Correspondent

    Foreign Correspondent

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Woman on Pier 13

    The Woman on Pier 13

    5.3 1950 HD

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  • 1939
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    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    Tarzan Finds a Son!

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key

    6.6 1942 HD

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  • 1960
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    The 3rd Voice

    The 3rd Voice

    5.8 1960 HD

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  • 1949
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    Without Honor

    Without Honor

    5.2 1949 HD

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  • 1942
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    Journey for Margaret

    Journey for Margaret

    6.6 1942 HD

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  • 1946
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    The Locket

    The Locket

    6.4 1946 HD

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  • 1942
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    Fingers at the Window

    Fingers at the Window

    5.4 1942 HD

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  • 1943
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    Mr. Lucky

    Mr. Lucky

    6.9 1943 HD

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  • 1954
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    The High and the Mighty

    The High and the Mighty

    5.9 1954 HD

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  • 1948
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    My Dear Secretary

    My Dear Secretary

    5.9 1948 HD

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  • 1958
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    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1941
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    Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

    Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

    6.5 1941 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    6.3 1944 HD

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  • 1947
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    Tycoon

    Tycoon

    5.3 1947 HD

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  • 1940
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    Dr. Kildare Goes Home

    Dr. Kildare Goes Home

    6.8 1940 HD

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  • 1941
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    Unholy Partners

    Unholy Partners

    7 1941 HD

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  • 1942
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    A Yank on the Burma Road

    A Yank on the Burma Road

    4 1942 HD

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  • 1940
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    Dr. Kildare's Crisis

    Dr. Kildare's Crisis

    6 1940 HD

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  • 1975
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    Murder on Flight 502

    Murder on Flight 502

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1939
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    Calling Dr. Kildare

    Calling Dr. Kildare

    6.1 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    The Secret of Dr. Kildare

    The Secret of Dr. Kildare

    5.6 1939 HD

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  • 1940
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    Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

    Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

    4.8 1940 HD

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  • 1941
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    The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

    The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

    7 1941 HD

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  • 1940
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    And One Was Beautiful

    And One Was Beautiful

    6.2 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    I Take This Woman

    I Take This Woman

    6.2 1940 HD

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  • 1945
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    Keep Your Powder Dry

    Keep Your Powder Dry

    5.9 1945 HD

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  • 1939
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    Sergeant Madden

    Sergeant Madden

    6 1939 HD

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  • 1944
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    Bride by Mistake

    Bride by Mistake

    6.1 1944 HD

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  • 1956
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    Three for Jamie Dawn

    Three for Jamie Dawn

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Toy Tiger

    Toy Tiger

    6.2 1956 HD

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  • 1940
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    My Son, My Son!

    My Son, My Son!

    4.3 1940 HD

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  • 1937
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    Stella Dallas

    Stella Dallas

    6.9 1937 HD

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  • 1978
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    Return to Fantasy Island

    Return to Fantasy Island

    3.2 1978 HD

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  • 1941
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    Kathleen

    Kathleen

    5 1941 HD

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  • 1945
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    Those Endearing Young Charms

    Those Endearing Young Charms

    1 1945 HD

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  • 1939
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    Arizona Legion

    Arizona Legion

    5 1939 HD

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  • 1938
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    Painted Desert

    Painted Desert

    5.8 1938 HD

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  • 1938
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    Border G-Man

    Border G-Man

    5 1938 HD

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  • 1941
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    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    5 1941 HD

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  • 1941
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    The Bad Man

    The Bad Man

    5.4 1941 HD

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  • 1940
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    A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

    A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

    6.7 1940 HD

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  • 1939
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    Think First

    Think First

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1944
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    Twenty Years After

    Twenty Years After

    6 1944 HD

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  • 1938
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    Scandal Street

    Scandal Street

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1942
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    Mr. Gardenia Jones

    Mr. Gardenia Jones

    4.2 1942 HD

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  • 1955
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    Too Old for Dolls

    Too Old for Dolls

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1955
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    The Final Tribute

    The Final Tribute

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.429 1965 HD

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  • 1984
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    Airwolf

    Airwolf

    7.542 1984 HD

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  • 1982
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    Hotel

    Hotel

    6.7 1982 HD

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  • 1969
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    Medical Center

    Medical Center

    6.1 1969 HD

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    2.7 1954 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Sixth Sense

    The Sixth Sense

    6.3 1972 HD

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  • 1961
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    The New Breed

    The New Breed

    7 1961 HD

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    5.8 1953 HD

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  • 1953
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    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    5.8 1953 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1953
    imgS8 E31

    Letter to Loretta

    Letter to Loretta

    5.8 1953 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1950
    imgS7 E52

    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

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  • 1958
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1960
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    Checkmate

    Checkmate

    4.1 1960 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Name of the Game

    The Name of the Game

    6.8 1968 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.3 1977 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

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  • 1955
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    Screen Director's Playhouse

    Screen Director's Playhouse

    6.5 1955 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    7.8 1962 HD

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