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Gloria de Haven
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Actor Born: July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Gloria DeHaven was the daughter of the popular "polite comedy" stage-and-film team of Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven. DeHaven made her screen debut as one of Paulette Goddard's younger sisters in Charles Chaplin's "Modern Times", on which her father was assistant director. In her teen years, DeHaven secured work as a band vocalist, which led to singing parts in such film musicals as "Best Foot Forward" (1943), "Step Lively" (1944) and "Summer Holiday" (1948). Under contract to MGM from 1940 to 1950, the vivacious and talented DeHaven was the studio's all-purpose ingenue, acting opposite everyone from William Powell to Red Skelton. She later starred in a series of Technicolor musicals at 20th Century-Fox. When musicals fell out of public favor, DeHaven's film career waned and she turned her energies to performing in nightclubs, summer-stock and on the TV-guest-star circuit. During the 1970s and 1980s, she... Full Biography
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