Gloria DeHaven
Acting • Born 1925-07-23 – Died 2016-07-30
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. From Wikipedia.
Filmography
74 credits
The Thin Man Goes Home
Movie • 1944
Laura Belle Ronson
Best Foot Forward
Movie • 1943
Minerva Fierce
Summer Stock
Movie • 1950
Abigail Falbury
Summer Holiday
Movie • 1948
Muriel McComber
Step Lively
Movie • 1944
Christine Marlowe
Thousands Cheer
Movie • 1943
Gloria DeHaven
Scene of the Crime
Movie • 1949
Lili
Out to Sea
Movie • 1997
Vivian
Broadway Rhythm
Movie • 1944
Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)
Two Girls and a Sailor
Movie • 1944
Jean Deyo
The Doctor and the Girl
Movie • 1949
Fabienne Corday
The Yellow Cab Man
Movie • 1950
Ellen Goodrich
Two Tickets to Broadway
Movie • 1951
Hannah Holbrook
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Movie • 1975
Police Matron
The Girl Rush
Movie • 1955
Taffy Tremaine
Bog
Movie • 1979
Ginny Glenn / Adrianna
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Movie • 1953
Angela Toland
Mr. Broadway
Movie • 1957
I'll Get By
Movie • 1950
Terry Martin
Call Her Mom
Movie • 1972
Helen Hardgrove
Between Two Women
Movie • 1945
Edna
Three Little Words
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Carter DeHaven
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress
Movie • 1977
Mrs. Blake
Susan and God
Movie • 1940
Enid
Keeping Company
Movie • 1940
Evelyn Thomas
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Movie • 2006
Self
The Penalty
Movie • 1941
Anne Logan
Modern Times
Movie • 1936
Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Two-Faced Woman
Movie • 1941
Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Movie • 1949
Sarah Jane Winfield
So This Is Paris
Movie • 1954
Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie • 1976
President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart
Movie • 1995
Molly Plenty
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Movie • 1984
Maureen Brockmeyer
Lucy Moves to NBC
Movie • 1980
Self
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
That's Dancing!
Movie • 1985
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Evening in Byzantium
Movie • 1978
Sonia Murphy
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Movie • 1976
President's Girl 1
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Movie • 1976
Lady Jane Gray
The Zodiac Murders
Movie • 1975
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Gloria Marlowe
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Phyllis Grant
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Connie French
B. J. and the Bear
TV • 1979
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Doreen
Mama's Family
TV • 1983
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Carrie Thompson
Mannix
TV • 1967
Gloria Farnsworth
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Darkroom
TV • 1981
Delta House
TV • 1979
Police Story
TV • 1973
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Liana MacIntosh
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Betty Laurence
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Ronna Desmond
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Ted Knight Show
TV • 1978
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV • 1978
Nakia
TV • 1974
The Dick Clark Show
TV • 1958
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The George Gobel Show
TV • 1954
Self
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Agnes Gideon Pratt
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Betty Schaefer
Hello, Larry
TV • 1979
Hello, Larry
TV • 1979
Lorraine
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
TV • 1976
Annie Wylie