Gloria Mildred DeHaven (1924 - )
Singer/dancer/actress in films, theater and television.

Born in Los Angeles, California on July 23, 1924. Her parents were popular vaudeville performers, and appeared in some silent films. Gloria studied at the Ken-Mar Professional school in Hollywood, and found bit parts in The Great Dictator (Chaplin) and several MGM films. She also sang with Bob Crosby's Orchestra.

Gloria was teamed with June Allyson in early appearances at MGM, including Best Foot Forward and Thousands Cheer. They were subsequently teamed in the hit film Two Girls and a Sailor. After that film, June Allyson's career began to take off, but Gloria married John Payne and left pictures for several years. She gave birth to her daughter Kathleen in 1945, then returned to MGM to play across from Mickey Rooney in Summer Holiday (finally released in 1948).

Gloria's son Thomas was born in 1947, and Gloria took more time off, but returned to MGM to play across from Van Johnson in Scene of the Crime (1949) and (on loan to Universal) with Donald O'Connor in Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949). She divorced John Payne in 1950. She played her real-life mother in a cameo appearance in Three Little Words (1950), singing "Who's Sorry Now?", (a Connie Francis hit just a few years later). In 1950, Gloria also played Judy Garland's sister in Summer Stock, one of her best roles.

After several more films, Gloria moved to New York and took up stage work. She appeared in stock productions of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Oliver and The Sound of Music and appeared on a number of television shows. In 1957 she married again and had two more children - Harry (born 1958) and Faith (born 1952).

Gloria returned to the screen in the 1997 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau flick, Out to Sea (20th Century-Fox).

Filmography:

Out to Sea, [Vivian], 20th Century-Fox, 1997
That's Entertainment! III, [film clips], MGM, 1994
Evening in Byzantium, 1978
Sharon, Portrait of a Mistress, 1977
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, [cameo], Paramount, 1976
Banjo Hackett, 1976
Who Is the Black Dahlia?, 1972
Call Her Mom, 1972
The Girl Rush, [Taffy Tremaine], Paramount, 1955
So This Is Paris, [Colette D'Avril/Jane Mitchell], Universal, 1954
Down Among the Sheltering Palms, [Angela Toland], 20th Century Fox, 1953
Two Tickets to Broadway, [Hannah Holbrook], RKO, 1951
I'll Get By, [Terry Martin], 20th Century-Fox, 1950
Summer Stock, [Abigail Falbury], MGM, 1950
Three Little Words, [Mrs. Carter DeHaven], MGM, 1950
The Yellow Cab Man, [Ellen Goodrich], MGM, 1950
Yes Sir That's My Baby, [Sarah Jane Winfield], Universal, 1949
The Doctor and the Girl, [Fabienne], MGM, 1949
Scene of the Crime, [Lili], MGM, 1949
Summer Holiday, [Muriel McComber], MGM, 1948
Between Two Women, [Edna], MGM, 1944
The Thin Man Goes Home, [Laura Ronson], MGM, 1944
Step Lively, [Christine], RKO, 1944
Two Girls and a Sailor, [Jean Dayo], MGM, 1944
Broadway Rhythm, [Patsy Demming], MGM, 1944
Thousands Cheer, [Herself], MGM, 1943
Best Foot Forward, [Ethel], MGM, 1943
The Penalty, [Anne Logan], MGM, 1941
Two-Faced Woman, [Debutante], MGM, 1941
Keeping Company, [Evelyn Thomas], MGM, 1941
Susan and God, [Enid], MGM, 1940
The Great Dictator, 1940
Modern Times, 1936

Television Series:  (regular cast)

Nakia, 1979
Ryan's Hope, 1975

Guest appearances on many shows.

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