Gloria DeHaven
Acting
Born July 23, 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
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
- 1997Out to Sea — Vivian
- 1995Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart — Molly Plenty
- 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1985That's Dancing! — From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
- Murder, She Wrote — Phyllis Grant
- 1984The Pigs vs. The Freaks — Maureen Brockmeyer
- Mama's Family
- Darkroom — Louise Lawrence
- Falcon Crest — Gloria Marlowe
- B. J. and the Bear
- 1979Bog — Ginny Glenn / Adrianna
- Delta House
- Hart to Hart
- Hello, Larry — Lorraine
- Evening in Byzantium — Sonia Murphy
- Fantasy Island — Mrs. Brennan
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- The Ted Knight Show
- 1977Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress — Mrs. Blake
- 1976Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free — Lady Jane Gray
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman — Annie Wylie
- Quincy, M.E. — Doreen
- 1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood — President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
- 1975The Zodiac Murders
- 1975Who Is the Black Dahlia? — Police Matron
- Nakia
- 1974That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Police Story
- 1972Call Her Mom — Helen
- Mannix — Gloria Farnsworth
- Burke's Law — Connie French
- The Defenders — Agnes Gideon Pratt
- Adventures in Paradise — Liana MacIntosh
- Johnny Ringo — Ronna Desmond
- The Rifleman
- 1957Mr. Broadway — Josie Cohan
- Gunsmoke — Carrie Thompson
- 1955The Girl Rush — Taffy Tremaine
- 1954So This Is Paris — Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
- 1953Down Among the Sheltering Palms — Angela Toland
- 1951Two Tickets to Broadway — Hannah Holbrook
- 1950I'll Get By — Terry Martin
- Robert Montgomery Presents — Betty Laurence, Betty Schaefer
- 1950Summer Stock — Abigail Falbury
- 1950The Yellow Cab Man — Ellen Goodrich
- 1950Three Little Words — Mrs. Carter DeHaven
- 1949Scene of the Crime — Lili
- 1949The Doctor and the Girl — Fabienne Corday
- 1949Yes Sir, That's My Baby — Sarah Jane Winfield
- 1948Summer Holiday — Muriel McComber
- 1945Between Two Women — Edna
- 1944Broadway Rhythm — Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)
- 1944Step Lively — Christine Marlowe
- 1944The Thin Man Goes Home — Laura Belle Ronson
- 1944Twenty Years After — (archive footage)
- 1944Two Girls and a Sailor — Jean Deyo
- 1943Best Foot Forward — Minerva Fierce
- 1943Thousands Cheer — Gloria DeHaven
- 1941The Penalty — Anne Logan
- 1941Two-Faced Woman — Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
- 1940Keeping Company — Evelyn Thomas
- 1940Susan and God — Enid
- 1936Modern Times — Gamin's Sister (uncredited)
Appearances as themselves (9)
- 2006Summer Stock: Get Happy! — Self
- 1980Lucy Moves to NBC — Self
- The Merv Griffin Show — Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self
- The Dick Clark Show — Self
- The George Gobel Show — Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show — Self