Gloria DeHaven - 14119

Lovely American actress and singer. Gloria's parents were the popular vaudeville act, the Carter DeHavens, and she entered show business early, playing Paulette Goddard's sister in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). After playing some bit parts Gloria was put under contract by MGM, where she was teamed with June Allyson in Best Foot Forward (1943) and the all-star extravaganza Thousands Cheer (also 1943). A succession of good roles in musicals followed, including Broadway Rhythm (1944), Two Girls And A Sailor (1944), Step Lively (1944), Summer Holiday (opposite Mickey Rooney, 1948) and Yes Sir That's My Baby (1949). In 1950 Gloria De Haven portrayed her mother and sang ‘Who's Sorry Now' in the biopic of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and followed that with appearances in Summer Stock (playing Judy Garland's sister, 1950), I'll Get By (1950), Two Tickets To Broadway (1951), Down Among The Sheltering Palms (1953), So This Is Paris (1954) and The Girl Rush (1955). With the advent of rock ‘n' roll, musical films underwent radical change in the late 50s, so Gloria turned to television and stage work. In 1955 she co-starred with Ricardo Montalban on Broadway in Seventh Heaven, a musical version of the 1927 Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell silent film classic. In the 1970s she was still appearing in dramatic parts in films and US television series. In 1989 she re-launched her career as a cabaret singer at the Rainbow & Stars in New York, where she sang saloon songs and talked of her vaudevillian parents who had launched her career so many years earlier. Gloria returned to the screen one last time in the 1997 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau comedy, Out to Sea. This is a very pretty vintage 1944 glossy sepia MGM publicity photograph (8" x 10"), nicely signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen ink across a clear area of the image. Some tiny unobtrusive crinkles near the top edge (you have to tilt the image to see them) but otherwise in very good condition. Part of the original MGM press release, discussing the "glamorous suit" the actress is wearing, is attached to the reverse. (This is how women in Hollywood looked in the 1940s!)