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Gloria DeHaven

Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Early life[edit]

DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. A 1983 newspaper article reported, "Miss DeHaven ... says that her real family name was O'Callahan before her father legally changed his name to DeHaven."[1]

Film[edit]

She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936).[2] She was signed to a contract with MGM. She had featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward (1943), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Scene of the Crime (1949) and Summer Stock (1950), and was voted by exhibitors as the third most likely to be a "star of tomorrow'" in 1944.[3] She portrayed her own mother, Flora Parker DeHaven, in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words (1950).

After a long absence from the screen, DeHaven appeared as the love interest of Jack Lemmon in the comedy Out to Sea (1997), also starring Walter Matthau.

Music[edit]

DeHaven's musical talents supplemented her acting abilities. Besides being cast as a singer in many of her films, including I'll Get By, So This Is Paris and The Girl Rush, and performing numbers in many of her movies, DeHaven sang with the bands of Jan Savitt and Bob Crosby and at one time had her own nightclub act.[1] During the early 1960s, DeHaven recorded for the small Seeco label, where she appeared on the 1962 compilation album Gloria Lynne and Her Friends. She was also heard on four of the Revisited compilations produced by Ben Bagley.[4]

Television[edit]

DeHaven appeared in the soap operas Ryan's Hope (as Bess Shelby), As the World Turns (as Sara Fuller),[1] and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. She was one of the numerous celebrities who appeared in the all-star box office flop, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and guest-starred in television series, including 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; Flipper; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Gunsmoke; Mannix; The Eddie Capra Mysteries; Fantasy Island; Hart to Hart; The Love Boat; Mama's Family; Highway to Heaven; Murder, She Wrote; and Touched by an Angel. On March 21, 1974, Gloria appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Later that year, she was cast in the short-lived police drama Nakia.[5]

From January 1969 to February 1971, DeHaven hosted a morning call-in movie show on WABC-TV in New York City.[5] She also appeared on five episodes of Match Game 75 as a guest panelist.

Stage[edit]

DeHaven's Broadway debut came in 1955. She played Diane in the musical version of Seventh Heaven.[6] She also toured in a summer stock production of No, No, Nanette.[1]

Personal life[edit]

DeHaven in 1998

DeHaven was married four times to three men. Her first husband was actor John Payne, star of The Restless Gun, whom she married in 1944 and divorced in 1950. Her second husband was real estate developer Martin Kimmel.[7] They were married in 1953 and divorced the following year. She was married to Richard Fincher, son of a Miami Oldsmobile dealer, from 1957 until 1963. They remarried in 1965 and divorced again in 1969.[8]

She had two children with Payne, daughter Kathleen Hope (born 1945) and son Thomas John (born 1947) as well as two children with Fincher, son Harry (born 1958) and daughter Faith (born 1962).

DeHaven has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd.[9]

DeHaven was a staunch Republican[10] and attributed her youthful appearance in later years to an organic diet and faith in prayer.[10]

Death[edit]

DeHaven died on July 30, 2016, in Las Vegas of undisclosed causes a week after her 91st birthday while in hospice care after having had a stroke a few months earlier.[11][12] She was survived by her four children.[13] Her remains were cremated.[14]

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1936Modern TimesGamin's sisterUncredited
1940Susan and GodEnid
Keeping CompanyEvelyn Thomas
1941The PenaltyAnne Logan
Two-Faced WomanDebutante in ladies' roomUncredited
1943Best Foot ForwardMinerva
Thousands CheerHerself
1944Broadway RhythmPatsy Demming
Two Girls and a SailorJean Deyo
Step LivelyChristine Marlowe
The Thin Man Goes HomeLaurabelle Ronson
1945Between Two WomenEdna
1948Summer HolidayMuriel McComber
1949Scene of the CrimeLili
Yes Sir That's My BabySarah Jane Winfield
The Doctor and the GirlFabienne Corday
1950The Yellow Cab ManEllen Goodrich
Three Little WordsMrs. Carter De Haven
Summer StockAbigail Falbury
I'll Get ByTerry Martin
1951Two Tickets to BroadwayHannah Holbrook
1953Down Among the Sheltering PalmsAngela Toland
1954So This Is ParisColette d'Avril
1955The Girl RushTaffy Tremaine
1976Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved HollywoodPresident's girl 1
1978Evening in ByzantiumSonia MurphyTV movie
1979BogGinny Glenn
1984Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks)Maureen BrockmeyerTV movie
1990Ladies on Sweet StreetRuth
1994Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
1997Out to SeaVivian

Television[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1951The Alan Young Show
1956The George Gobel ShowDecember 8 episode[15]
1959The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen1 episode
1959The RiflemanLillian HalsteadSeason 2, episode 6: "Eddie's Daughter"
1959Johnny RingoRonna Desmond1 episode
1960Wagon TrainAllison Justis1 episode
1961BBC Sunday-Night PlayShirley Kellogg1 episode
1961The DefendersAgnes ASeason 1, episode 15: "Gideon's Follies"
1969MannixGloria NewmanSeason 1, episode 3: "Nothing Ever Works Twice"
1972The Jimmy Stewart ShowLucy Carruthers1 episode
1974GunsmokeCarrie1 episode
1974NakiaIrene James13 episodes
1975Match GameHerself1975 for one week
1975Movin' OnJaney1 episode
1977Quincy M.E.Doreen1 episode
1976–1977Mary Hartman, Mary HartmanAnnie Wylie30 episodes
1978The Ted Knight ShowDelores1 episode (TV Mini-Series)
1978Police StoryJill's Mother1 episode
1978The Eddie Capra Mysteries1 episode
1979Delta HouseMarion Wormer2 episodes
1980B.J. and the BearMama1 episode
1980Hello, Larry1 episode
1981DarkroomLouise Lawrence1 episode
1978–1982Fantasy IslandSophie / Mrs. Brennan2 episodes
1982Hart to HartReva1 episode
1983Falcon CrestGloria Marlowe1 episode
1983Mama's FamilySally NashEpisode: "Positive Thinking"
1983–1985Ryan's HopeBess Shelby14 episodes
1983–1986The Love BoatMary Halbert / Florence Dolan2 episodes
1987Highway to HeavenPhoebe HallSeason 3, episode 17: "A Mother and Daughter"
1987–1989Murder, She WrotePhyllis Grant3 episodes
1993All My Children

Emma Mallory

2000Touched by an AngelBeverly1 episode

Stage work[edit]

Radio appearances[edit]

YearProgramEpisode/source
1952Broadway PlayhousePractically Yours[16]
1953Theatre Guild on the AirO'Halloran's Luck''[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Reichardt, Nancy M. (August 27, 1983). "Gloria DeHaven heads for 'Ryan's Hope'". The Index-Journal. p. 29. Retrieved June 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  2. ^ "Gloria DeHaven To Star At Bucks Co. Playhouse". The Daily Intelligencer. Greenwood, South Carolina. March 24, 1971. p. 14. Retrieved June 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. ^ "Saga of the High Seas". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania: National Library of Australia. November 11, 1944. p. 9. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  4. ^ "Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen Revisited". Smithsonian Institution.
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b Barnes, Mike; Byrge, Duane (July 31, 2016). "Gloria DeHaven, Effervescent Star of MGM Musicals, Dies at 91". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  6. ^ "Gloria DeHaven to Be Diane In Musical 'Seventh Heaven'". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 1, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved June 15, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  7. ^ "Gloria DeHaven to wed New York Realtor". Reading Eagle. Associated Press. June 21, 1953. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Gloria DeHaven Divorced Again". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. January 11, 1969. p. 15. Retrieved June 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  9. ^ "Gloria DeHaven". Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  10. ^ Jump up to:a b "Gloria DeHaven, Hollywood actress – obituary". August 17, 2016 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  11. ^ "Gloria DeHaven, star of 1940s, '50s films, dead at age 91". CBS News. Associated Press. August 1, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  12. ^ Lincoln, Ross A. (July 31, 2016). "Gloria DeHaven Dies: Singer-Actress & Star Of MGM Musicals Was 91". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  13. ^ Lentz, Harris III (September 2016). "Obituaries: Gloria DeHaven, 91". Classic Images(495): 56.
  14. ^ "Gloria DeHaven". Find a Grave. July 31, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  15. ^ "Saturday". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. December 2, 1956. p. 85. Retrieved June 15,2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  16. ^ Kirby, Walter (November 30, 1952). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 48. Retrieved June 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  17. ^ Kirby, Walter (March 1, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 46. Retrieved June 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access

Further reading[edit]

  • Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 1-59393-320-7.
  • Dye, David. Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, p. 54.

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