“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

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

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