Gloria DeHaven

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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Murder, She Wrote

The Mike Douglas Show

Falcon Crest

Mannix

The Rifleman

Quincy, M.E.

Robert Montgomery Presents

All Movies (43)

• Summer Stock: Get Happy!2006 · as Self
• Out to Sea1997 · as Vivian
• Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart1995 · as Molly Plenty
• That's Entertainment! III1994 · as (archive footage)
• That's Dancing!1985 · as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
• The Pigs vs. The Freaks1984 · as Maureen Brockmeyer
• Lucy Moves to NBC1980 · as Self
• Bog1979 · as Ginny Glenn / Adrianna
• Evening in Byzantium1978 · as Sonia Murphy
• Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress1977 · as Mrs. Blake
• Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976 · as President's Girl 1 (as Gloria De Haven)
• Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood1976 · as President's Girl 1
• Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free1976 · as Lady Jane Gray
• The Zodiac Murders1975
• Who Is the Black Dahlia?1975 · as Police Matron
• That's Entertainment!1974 · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Call Her Mom1972 · as Helen Hardgrove
• Mr. Broadway1957
• The Girl Rush1955 · as Taffy Tremaine
• So This Is Paris1954 · as Colette d'Avril / Jane Mitchell (as Gloria De Haven)
• Down Among the Sheltering Palms1953 · as Angela Toland
• Two Tickets to Broadway1951 · as Hannah Holbrook
• I'll Get By1950 · as Terry Martin
• Summer Stock1950 · as Abigail Falbury
• Three Little Words1950 · as Mrs. Carter DeHaven
• The Yellow Cab Man1950 · as Ellen Goodrich
• The Doctor and the Girl1949 · as Fabienne Corday
• Yes Sir, That's My Baby1949 · as Sarah Jane Winfield
• Scene of the Crime1949 · as Lili
• Summer Holiday1948 · as Muriel McComber
• Between Two Women1945 · as Edna
• The Thin Man Goes Home1944 · as Laura Belle Ronson
• Step Lively1944 · as Christine Marlowe
• Two Girls and a Sailor1944 · as Jean Deyo
• Broadway Rhythm1944 · as Patsy Demming (as Gloria de Haven)
• Twenty Years After1944 · as (archive footage)
• Best Foot Forward1943 · as Minerva Fierce
• Thousands Cheer1943 · as Gloria DeHaven
• Two-Faced Woman1941 · as Debutante in Ladies' Room (uncredited)
• The Penalty1941 · as Anne Logan
• Keeping Company1940 · as Evelyn Thomas
• Susan and God1940 · as Enid
• Modern Times1936 · as Gamin's Sister (uncredited)

All TV Shows (33)

• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Phyllis Grant
• Mama's Family1983
• Falcon Crest1981 · as Gloria Marlowe
• Darkroom1981 · as Louise Lawrence
• Hart to Hart1979
• B. J. and the Bear1979
• Hello, Larry1979
• Hello, Larry1979 · as Lorraine
• Delta House1979
• The Eddie Capra Mysteries1978
• Evening in Byzantium1978 · as Sonia Murphy
• The Ted Knight Show1978
• Fantasy Island1978 · as Mrs. Brennan
• Quincy, M.E.1976 · as Doreen
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman1976 · as Annie Wylie
• Nakia1974
• Police Story1973
• Mannix1967 · as Gloria Farnsworth
• Burke's Law1963 · as Connie French
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• The Defenders1961 · as Agnes Gideon Pratt
• Adventures in Paradise1959 · as Liana MacIntosh
• Johnny Ringo1959 · as Ronna Desmond
• The Rifleman1958
• The Dick Clark Show1958 · as Self
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Carrie Thompson
• The George Gobel Show1954 · as Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self
• Robert Montgomery Presents1950 · as Betty Laurence
• Robert Montgomery Presents1950 · as Betty Schaefer
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self