Gloria DeHaven

Gloria DeHaven

1925-07-23 – 2016-07-30 (age 91) Los Angeles, California, USA
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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.

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Known For

Modern Times
Modern Times

1936

as Gamin's Sister (uncredited)

That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment! III

1994

as (archive footage)

Step Lively
Step Lively

1944

as Christine Marlowe

Keeping Company
Keeping Company

1940

as Evelyn Thomas

Out to Sea
Out to Sea

1997

as Vivian

That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment!

1974

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mr. Broadway
Broadway Rhythm
Broadway Rhythm

1944

as Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)

The Thin Man Goes Home
The Thin Man Goes Home

1944

as Laura Belle Ronson

Summer Stock
Summer Stock

1950

as Abigail Falbury

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

as President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
That's Dancing!
That's Dancing!

1985

as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)

Evening in Byzantium
Evening in Byzantium

1978

as Sonia Murphy

Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After

1944

as (archive footage)

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Down Among the Sheltering Palms

1953

as Angela Toland

Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Who Is the Black Dahlia?

1975

as Police Matron

The Pigs vs. The Freaks
The Pigs vs. The Freaks

1984

as Maureen Brockmeyer

Two-Faced Woman
Two-Faced Woman

1941

as Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)

The Girl Rush
The Girl Rush

1955

as Taffy Tremaine