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{{short description|American actress and singer (1925–2016)}}{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}}

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.2016307|23}}| death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | death_cause = | occupation = Actress, singer| years_active = 1936–2000| parents = Carter DeHavenFlora Parker DeHaven

• {{marriage|John Payne|1944|1950|end=div{edih}
• {{marriage|Martin Kimmel|1953|1954|end=div}}
• {{marriage|Richard Fincher|1957|1963|end=div}}
• {{marriage||1965|1969|end=div}}

}}| children = 4| birthname = Gloria Mildred DeHaven| signature = File:Gloria signature.svg}}Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Early life

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.”

Film

She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936).NEWS, Gloria DeHaven To Star At Bucks Co. Playhouse,www.newspapers.com/clip/2623119/the_daily_intelligencer/, The Daily Intelligencer, March 24, 1971, 14, Newspapers.com, June 15, 2015, Greenwood, South Carolina, {{Open access}} 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.NEWS,nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26044148, Saga of the High Seas, The Mercury (Hobart), The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, November 11, 1944, April 24, 2012, 9, National Library of Australia, 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

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. DeHaven appeared often in the 1950s at the El Rancho Vegas, the first full service hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip 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.WEB,www.si.edu/object/nmah_1247706, Ben Bagley’s Harold Arlen Revisited, Smithsonian Institution,

Television

DeHaven appeared in the soap operas Ryan’s Hope (as Bess Shelby), As the World Turns (as Sara Fuller),NEWS, Reichardt, Nancy M., Gloria DeHaven heads for ‘Ryan’s Hope’,www.newspapers.com/clip/2623239/the_indexjournal/, The Index-Journal, August 27, 1983, 29, Newspapers.com, June 15, 2015, {{Open access}} 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 Jimmy Stewart Show, 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.,NEWS, Gloria DeHaven, Effervescent Star of MGM Musicals, Dies at 91,www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gloria-dehaven-dead-actress-singer-908539, The Hollywood Reporter, July 31, 2016, Mike, Barnes, Duane, Byrge, December 6, 2017, She also appeared with Horace Heidt on his “Swift Family Show Wagon” in 1955.From January 1969 to February 1971, DeHaven hosted a morning call-in movie show on WABC-TV in New York City. She also appeared on five episodes of Match Game 75 as a guest panelist.

Stage

DeHaven’s Broadway debut came in 1955. She played Diane in the musical version of Seventh Heaven.NEWS, Gloria DeHaven to Be Diane In Musical ‘Seventh Heaven’,www.newspapers.com/clip/2623193/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/, Brooklyn Eagle, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 1, 1954, 13, Newspapers.com, June 15, 2015, {{Open access}} She also toured in a summer stock production of No, No, Nanette.

Personal life

(File:Gloria DeHaven 1998.jpg|thumb|DeHaven in 1998)DeHaven married four times. 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.NEWS,news.google.com/newspapers?id=1hArAAAAIBAJ&pg=3678,2408319&dq=gloria+dehaven+kimmel&hl=en, Gloria DeHaven to wed New York Realtor, Reading Eagle, June 21, 1953, Associated Press, December 6, 2017, 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.NEWS, Gloria DeHaven Divorced Again,www.newspapers.com/clip/2623460/fairbanks_daily_newsminer/, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, January 11, 1969, 15, Newspapers.com, June 16, 2015, {{Open access}}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.NEWS, Gloria DeHaven,www.walkoffame.com/gloria-dehaven, June 16, 2015, Hollywood Walk of Fame, DeHaven was a staunch RepublicanNEWS,www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/17/gloria-dehaven-hollywood-actress--obituary/, Gloria DeHaven, Hollywood actress – obituary, The Telegraph, August 17, 2016, www.telegraph.co.uk, and attributed her youthful appearance in later years to an organic diet and faith in prayer.

Death

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.NEWS,www.cbsnews.com/news/gloria-dehaven-star-of-1940s-50s-films-dead-at-age-91/, Gloria DeHaven, star of 1940s, ‘50s films, dead at age 91, CBS News, August 1, 2016, Associated Press, December 6, 2017, WEB,deadline.com/2016/07/musical-star-gloria-dehaven-dies-at-91-golden-age-of-hollywood-1201796259/, Gloria DeHaven Dies: Singer-Actress & Star Of MGM Musicals Was 91, Lincoln, Ross A., July 31, 2016, Deadline Hollywood, December 6, 2017, She was survived by her four children.JOURNAL, Lentz, Harris III, Obituaries: Gloria DeHaven, 91, Classic Images, September 2016, 495, 56,

Filmography

Films{| class“wikitable”

!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Year!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Title!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Role!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Notes1936Modern Times (film)>Modern Times|Gamin’s sister|Uncredited1940|Susan and God|Enid||Keeping Company|Evelyn Thomas|1941The Penalty (1941 film)>The Penalty|Anne Logan||Two-Faced Woman|Debutante in ladies’ room|Uncredited1943Best Foot Forward (1943 film)>Best Foot Forward|Minerva||Thousands Cheer|Herself|1944|Broadway Rhythm|Patsy Demming||Two Girls and a Sailor|Jean Deyo|Step Lively (1944 film)>Step Lively|Christine Marlowe||The Thin Man Goes Home|Laurabelle Ronson|1945Between Two Women (1945 film)>Between Two Women|Edna|1948Summer Holiday (1948 film)>Summer Holiday|Muriel McComber|1949Scene of the Crime (1949 film)>Scene of the Crime|Lili|Yes Sir, That’s My Baby (film)>Yes Sir That’s My Baby|Sarah Jane Winfield||The Doctor and the Girl|Fabienne Corday|1950|The Yellow Cab Man|Ellen Goodrich|Three Little Words (film)>Three Little Words|Mrs. Carter De Haven||Summer Stock|Abigail Falbury|I’ll Get By (film)>I’ll Get By|Terry Martin|1951|Two Tickets to Broadway|Hannah Holbrook|1953Down Among the Sheltering Palms (film)>Down Among the Sheltering Palms|Angela Toland|1954So This Is Paris (1955 film)>So This Is Paris|Colette d’Avril|1955|The Girl Rush|Taffy Tremaine|1976|(Banjo Hackett: Roamin’ Free)|Lady Jane Gray|TV movie1976|Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood|President’s girl 1|1978|Evening in Byzantium|Sonia Murphy|TV movie|1979Bog (1983 film)>Bog|Ginny Glenn|1984|Off Sides (Pigs vs. Freaks)|Maureen Brockmeyer|TV movie|1990|Ladies on Sweet Street|Ruth|1994|Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart||1997|Out to Sea|Vivian|“>

Television{| class“wikitable”

!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Year!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Title!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Role!style="background:#B0C4DE;” | Notes| The Alan Young Show | The George Gobel Show December 8 episodeSATURDAY> URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2623438/THE_CORPUS_CHRISTI_CALLERTIMES/CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES> DATE=DECEMBER 2, 1956VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, June 15, 2015, {{Open access}}The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen >| 1 episode| The Rifleman Lillian Halstead Season 2, episode 6: “Eddie’s Daughter” Johnny Ringo >| 1 episode Wagon Train >| 1 episodeBBC Sunday-Night Play >|1 episodeThe Defenders (1961 TV series)>The Defenders Agnes A Season 1, episode 15: “Gideon’s Follies”Mannix >| Season 1, episode 3: “Nothing Ever Works Twice”The Jimmy Stewart Show >| Season 1, episode 23: ‘Old School Ties”Gunsmoke >| 1 episodeNakia (TV series)>Nakia Irene James 13 episodesMatch Game >|1975 for one weekDarkroom (TV series)>Movin’ On Janey 1 episodeQuincy, M.E. >| 1 episodeMary Hartman, Mary Hartman >| 30 episodesThe Ted Knight Show (1978 TV series)>The Ted Knight Show Delores 1 episodePolice Story (1973 TV series)>Police Story Jill’s Mother 1 episodeThe Eddie Capra Mysteries >| 1 episodeDelta House >| 2 episodesB. J. and the Bear >| 1 episodeHello, Larry >| 1 episodeDarkroom (TV series)>Darkroom Louise Lawrence 1 episodeFantasy Island >| 2 episodes Hart to Hart Reva 1 episodeFalcon Crest >| 1 episodeMama’s Family >| Episode: “Positive Thinking”Ryan’s Hope >| 14 episodes The Love Boat >|2 episodes Highway to Heaven >| Season 3, episode 18: “A Mother and Daughter”| Murder, She Wrote Phyllis Grant 3 episodesAll My Children>|Emma Mallory | Touched by an Angel >|1 episode

Stage work

• Seventh Heaven (1955)
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1963)
• The Sound of Music (1964)
• Golden Boy (1968)
• Plaza Suite (1971)
• Hello, Dolly (1973)
• No, No, Nanette (1983)
• A High-Time Salute to Martin and Blane (1991) (benefit concert)

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Radio appearances{| class“wikitable”

! Year !! Program !! Episode/sourceBroadway Playhouse >Practically YoursKIRBY TITLE=BETTER RADIO PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK NEWSPAPER=HERALD & REVIEW> DATE=NOVEMBER 30, 1952 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, June 14, 2015, {{Open access}}The United States Steel Hour#Theatre Guild on the Air>Theatre Guild on the Air O’Halloran’s Luck’’KIRBY> FIRST1=WALTER URL=HTTPS://WWW.NEWSPAPERS.COM/CLIP/2675256/THE_DECATUR_DAILY_REVIEW/ DATE=MARCH 1, 1953 VIA=NEWSPAPERS.COM, June 23, 2015, {{Open access}}

References

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Further reading

• 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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• {{Tcmdb name|47632}}
• {{Amg name|17761}}
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