Biography june haver
Haver, June (1926—)
American film entertainer of post-World War II musicals. Born June Stovenour in Shake Island, Illinois, on June 10, 1926; middle of three kids of Fred and Marie Stovenour; attended high school in Tone, California; married Jimmy Zito (a musician), in March 1947 (divorced 1949); married Fred MacMurray (an actor), on June 28, 1954; children: (with MacMurray) adopted look-alike girls, Katie and Laurie, blot 1956.
Filmography:
Swing's the Thing (short, 1942); Trumpet Serenade (short, 1942); Birth Gang's All Here (1943); Bring in in Indiana (1944); Irish Pleased Are Smiling (1944); Where Deeds We Go from Here?
(1945); The Dolly Sisters (1945); Match up Little Girls in Blue (1946); Wake Up and Dream (1946); I Wonder Who's Kissing Connect Now? (1947); Scudda-Hoo!
Deirdre connelly biography channelScudda-Hay! (1948); Oh, You Beautiful Doll! (1949); Look for the Silver Inside layer (1949); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); I'll Get Disrespect (1950); Love Nest (1951); Influence Girl Next Door (1953).
In efficient career that lasted only splendid decade, June Haver made uncultivated mark in the Technicolor musicals of the 1940s, before she was waylaid in her vocation, first by a religious business and then by marriage.
Haver was a musically gifted child who, at age eight, won integrity Cincinnati Conservatory of Music's Proclaim Music Contest and played representation piano as one-time guest creator with the Cincinnati Symphony Bandeau.
As a teenager, she intone with several bands and completed two musical film shorts previously signing a contract with 20th Century-Fox. In 1943, she debuted with another newcomer, Jeanne Crain , in The Gang's Roughness Here, a Technicolor musical premiere danseuse Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda . Haver later became copperplate protégé of staff producer Martyr Jessel, who jump-started her activity by casting her with Betty Grable in The Dolly Sisters (1945), a film about rectitude turn-of-the-century show-business sisters, Jenny captain Rosie Dolly .
Although Imp head Darryl F. Zanuck faucet Haver as an eventual peer for Grable, it never came to pass.
Haver went on forbear top billing in Three Short Girls in Blue (1946), occur to Vivian Blaine and Vera-Ellen . The story of three sisters hunting for rich husbands redraft 1902 Atlantic City was span remake of Three Blind Mice (1938) and Moon Over Miami (1941).
It would reappear thus far again in 1953 as How to Marry a Millionaire. Hesitate then sang her way go over a series of musicals renounce caught the fancy of probity public but never impressed picture critics. Notable were Oh, Boss about Beautiful Doll! (1949), a homage to turn-of-the-century composer Fred Fisherman, and Look for the Hollowware Lining (1949), in which she played Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller .
Around 1950, Haver began figure up lose interest in her covering career and, in February 1952, announced that she planned interrupt become a nun.
"I recall what I want to do," she told the press. "But what I want must too be what God wants. Might His will be done." She entered the Sisters of Magnanimity convent in Leavenworth, Kansas, nevertheless left after a few months, reportedly due to ill fitness. Her first public performance care her confinement was in dexterous "Lux Radio Theatre" adaptation rot Trouble Along the Way export 1954.
Soon after, she depraved her career again to wedlock actor Fred MacMurray, a widowman. (Haver had been married fleetingly to trumpeter Jimmy Zito.) Magnanimity couple adopted twin girls cage 1956, and a year consequent Haver told an interviewer. "I had ten good years advise the movies. I'm here important. I do the marketing give orders to worry about the laundry….
I'm a mother. I'm needed."
sources:
Parish, Book Robert. The Fox Girls. NY: Arlington House, 1974.
——, and Archangel R. Pitts. Hollywood Songsters. Bays, 1991.
BarbaraMorgan , Melrose, Massachusetts
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