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Gloria DeHaven

Gloria DeHaven

Birthday: 1925-07-23 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gloria Mildred DeHaven (born July 23, 1925) is an American actress, singer and a former contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Early life and career DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director, Carter DeHaven, and actress, Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM. Despite featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) and Summer Stock (1950), and being voted by exhibitors as the third most likely to be a "star of tomorrow'" in 1944, she did not achieve film stardom. She portrayed her own mother, Flora Parker DeHaven, in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words (1950). DeHaven also appeared as a regular in the television series and soap operas As the World Turns, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Ryan's Hope. She was one of the numerous celebrities enticed to appear in the all-star box office flop, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and has guest starred in such television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Appointment with Adventure (episode entitled "The Snow People"), The Guy Mitchell Show, Johnny Ringo (as Rosemary Blake in "Love Affair"), The Rifleman, Wagon Train, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Marcus Welby, M.D., Gunsmoke, Mannix, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, The Love Boat, Mama's Family, Highway to Heaven, Murder, She Wrote and Touched by an Angel. She was also on five episodes of Match Game 75 along with Patti Deutsch and Buck Owens as guest panelists. Gloria DeHaven died July 30, 2016 (age 91), in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1997
Out to Sea

as    Vivian

1979
Bog

as    Ginny Glenn / Adrianna

1975
Who Is the Black Dahlia?

as    Police Matron

1972
Call Her Mom

as    Helen Hardgrove

1955
The Girl Rush

as    Taffy Tremaine

1954
So This Is Paris

as    Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)

1953
Down Among the Sheltering Palms

as    Angela Toland

1951
Two Tickets to Broadway

as    Hannah Holbrook

1950
Summer Stock

as    Abigail Falbury

1950
The Yellow Cab Man

as    Ellen Goodrich

1950
Three Little Words

as    Mrs. Carter DeHaven

1950
I'll Get By

as    Terry Martin

1949
The Doctor and the Girl

as    Fabienne Corday

1949
Yes Sir, That's My Baby

as    Sarah Jane Winfield

1948
Summer Holiday

as    Muriel McComber

1944
Step Lively

as    Christine Marlowe

1944
Two Girls and a Sailor

as    Jean Deyo

1944
The Thin Man Goes Home

as    Laura Belle Ronson

1944
Broadway Rhythm

as    Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)

1943
Best Foot Forward

as    Minerva Fierce

1941
The Penalty

as    Anne Logan

1941
Two-Faced Woman

as    Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)

1940
Keeping Company

as    Evelyn Thomas