Person Details

Birthday: 1925-07-23 03:17:39

Death: 2016-07-30 03:17:39

Aliases: Gloria Mildred DeHaven , Gloria De Haven

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gloria Mildred DeHaven (born July 23, 1925) is an American actress, singer and a former contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Early life and career 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.

Most Famous Work

Adventures in Paradise
Average
6

Adventures in Paradise

(1959) Liana MacIntosh
Robert Montgomery Presents
Average
5

Robert Montgomery Presents

(1950) Betty Schaefer
Murder, She Wrote
Average
8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Phyllis Grant
Mannix
Average
7

Mannix

(1967) Gloria Farnsworth
Gunsmoke
Average
7

Gunsmoke

(1955) Carrie Thompson
The Defenders
Average
6

The Defenders

(1961) Agnes Gideon Pratt
The Dick Clark Show
Average
6

The Dick Clark Show

(1958) Self
Burke's Law
Average
6

Burke's Law

(1963) Connie French

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1997 Vivian
1995 Molly Plenty
1994 (archive footage)
1985 From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
1984 Phyllis Grant
Maureen Brockmeyer
1983 N/A
1981 N/A
N/A
1980 Self
1979 N/A
Ginny Glenn / Adrianna
N/A
N/A
1978 N/A
Sonia Murphy
N/A
1977 Mrs. Blake
1976 N/A
President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
President's Girl 1
Lady Jane Gray
1975 Police Matron
1974 N/A
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1973 N/A
1972 Helen Hardgrove
1967 Gloria Farnsworth
1963 Connie French
1962 Self
Self
1961 Self
Agnes Gideon Pratt
1959 Liana MacIntosh
N/A
1958 N/A
Self
1957 N/A
1955 Taffy Tremaine
Carrie Thompson
1954 Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
Self
1953 Angela Toland
1951 Hannah Holbrook
1950 Terry Martin
Self
Abigail Falbury
Mrs. Carter DeHaven
Ellen Goodrich
Betty Laurence
Betty Schaefer
1949 Fabienne Corday
Sarah Jane Winfield
Lili
1948 Self
Muriel McComber
1945 Edna
1944 Laura Belle Ronson
Christine Marlowe
Jean Deyo
Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)
(archive footage)
1943 Minerva Fierce
Gloria DeHaven
1941 Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
Anne Logan
1940 Evelyn Thomas
Enid
1936 Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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