
Gloria DeHaven
Biography
Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925-July 30, 2016) was an American actress, singer and a former contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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. From Wikipedia.
Filmografi
Modern Times1936 · Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Summer Stock1950 · Abigail Falbury
Step Lively1944 · Christine Marlowe
That's Entertainment!1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out to Sea1997 · Vivian
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free1976 · Lady Jane Gray
So This Is Paris1954 · Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
Call Her Mom1972 · Helen
The Thin Man Goes Home1944 · Laura Belle Ronson
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress1977 · Mrs. Blake
That's Dancing!1985 · From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Two Girls and a Sailor1944 · Jean Deyo
Twenty Years After1944 · (archive footage)
Two Tickets to Broadway1951 · Hannah Holbrook
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976 · President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
Scene of the Crime1949 · Lili
Susan and God1940 · Enid
The Doctor and the Girl1949 · Fabienne Corday
Three Little Words1950 · Mrs. Carter DeHaven
The Yellow Cab Man1950 · Ellen Goodrich
Thousands Cheer1943 · Gloria DeHaven
Two-Faced Woman1941 · Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
Bog1979 · Ginny Glenn / Adrianna
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Ava Gardner
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