Posted on 07/31/2016 7:11:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
Singer-actress Gloria DeHaven, the perky star of MGM musicals in the 1940s and a stalwart of show business for more than six decades, has died. She was 91.
DeHaven, who made her screen debut in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) as Paulette Goddard's kid sister — her father served as an assistant director on the film — died Saturday while in hospice care in Las Vegas, her daughter, Faith Fincher-Finkelstein, told The Hollywood Reporter. DeHaven suffered a stroke about three months ago, she said.
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She was a beauty who got more beautiful with age.......RIP
May the angels sing her home
Paulette Goddard was beautiful.
I never understood why June Allyson had a bigger career than Gloria DeHaven.
I always got her mixed up with Olivia de Havilland, who is still alive.
RIP
RIP.
What a beautiful classy woman!
I was confusing her with Rosemary DeCamp of the Bob Cummings program.
Wow! Now, that’s Dagny Taggart!
Just Gorgeous!
IMHO June Allyson, while not as beautiful as Gloria, had more charm and charisma.
Some just have that certain something that can’t be explained- like for instance, Marilyn Monroe.
When she was on the screen, you couldn’t take your eyes off her. She was liked by both men AND women.
She had ‘it’ and there will never be another like her- although Hollywood has tried to create another MM, they have failed. It can’t be done.
I have always found June minimally talented and her charm was invisible to me. I just don’t get it.
Monroe is a different story.
I always thought June Allyson was talented, in her way.
She was so little and cute with that throaty voice.
Whenever I think of her, I always see her waving goodbye with tears in her eyes to James Steward or some other guy as he went off to war. (There were no better ‘cryers’ in the movies- unless it was Margaret O’Brien.)
I think women thought of her as an ideal ‘best friend’.
She was good in ‘The Glenn Miller Story’
Monroe was, indeed, ‘a different story’.
She was amazing sexy, yet women liked her, too. That’s quite an accomplishment.
She was so magnetic on screen that no matter who or how many appeared in a scene with her, you couldn’t take your eyes off her.
There will never be another MM.
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