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Gloria DeHaven

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1925-07-23

Day of Death

2016-07-30

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography (43)

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Summer Stock: Get Happy!

2006
⭐ 5.8 Role: Vivian

Out to Sea

1997
⭐ 6.0 Role: Molly Plenty

Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart

1995
⭐ 7.0 Role: (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

1994
⭐ 7.1 Role: From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)

That's Dancing!

1985
⭐ 4.5 Role: Maureen Brockmeyer

The Pigs vs. The Freaks

1984
⭐ 3.3 Role: Self

Lucy Moves to NBC

1980
⭐ 3.1 Role: Ginny Glenn / Adrianna

Bog

1979
⭐ 8.0 Role: Sonia Murphy

Evening in Byzantium

1978
⭐ 4.0 Role: Mrs. Blake

Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress

1977
⭐ 4.3 Role: President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976
⭐ 4.3 Role: President's Girl 1

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976
⭐ 7.0 Role: Lady Jane Gray

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

1976
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Zodiac Murders

1975
⭐ 6.7 Role: Police Matron

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

1975