Gloria DeHaven

Actor

Gloria DeHaven

Born July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USADied July 30, 201635 films

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

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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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The Thin Man Goes Home posterFirst watchThe Thin Man Goes Home19447.1as Laura Belle RonsonA major role.Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a…View film

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Filmography

35 films as actor
  1. 1997Out to SeaVivian
  2. 1995Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. TaggartMolly Plenty
  3. 1984The Pigs vs. The FreaksMaureen Brockmeyer
  4. 1979BogGinny Glenn / Adrianna
  5. 1977Sharon: Portrait of a MistressMrs. Blake
  6. 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved HollywoodPresident's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
  7. 1976Banjo Hackett: Roamin' FreeLady Jane Gray
  8. 1975The Zodiac Murders
  9. 1975Who Is the Black Dahlia?Police Matron
  10. 1972Call Her MomHelen
  11. 1957Mr. BroadwayJosie Cohan
  12. 1955The Girl RushTaffy Tremaine
  13. 1954So This Is ParisColette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
  14. 1953Down Among the Sheltering PalmsAngela Toland
  15. 1951Two Tickets to BroadwayHannah Holbrook
  16. 1950I'll Get ByTerry Martin
  17. 1950Summer StockAbigail Falbury
  18. 1950Three Little WordsMrs. Carter DeHaven
  19. 1950The Yellow Cab ManEllen Goodrich
  20. 1949The Doctor and the GirlFabienne Corday
  21. 1949Yes Sir, That's My BabySarah Jane Winfield
  22. 1949Scene of the CrimeLili
  23. 1948Summer HolidayMuriel McComber
  24. 1945Between Two WomenEdna
  25. 1944The Thin Man Goes HomeLaura Belle Ronson
  26. 1944Step LivelyChristine Marlowe
  27. 1944Two Girls and a SailorJean Deyo
  28. 1944Broadway RhythmPatsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)
  29. 1943Best Foot ForwardMinerva Fierce
  30. 1943Thousands CheerGloria DeHaven
  31. 1941Two-Faced WomanDebutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
  32. 1941The PenaltyAnne Logan
  33. 1940Keeping CompanyEvelyn Thomas
  34. 1940Susan and GodEnid
  35. 1936Modern TimesGamin's Sister (uncredited)