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Laraine Day

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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.
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The Independent, Obituaries, Laraine Day, November 13, 2007

 
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