Gloria DeHaven
Known For
Acting
Born
1925-07-23 in Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Murder, She Wrote
as Phyllis Grant
Falcon Crest
as Gloria Marlowe
Quincy, M.E.
as Doreen
Mannix
as Gloria Farnsworth
The Rifleman
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
Hart to Hart
Gunsmoke
as Carrie Thompson
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
as Annie Wylie
The Defenders
as Agnes Gideon Pratt
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Betty Laurence
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Betty Schaefer
Burke's Law
as Connie French
Mama's Family
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Adventures in Paradise
as Liana MacIntosh
Johnny Ringo
as Ronna Desmond