June Allyson

Born: 1917-10-07, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Died: 2006-07-08

Biography

June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments.

Filmography

• The Love Boat (1977)
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Simon & Simon (1981)
• Hart to Hart (1979)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
• Burke's Law (1963)
• Switch (1975)
• The Dean Martin Show (1965)
• MGM Parade (1955)
• Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
• My Man Godfrey (1957)
• The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
• Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
• That's Entertainment! (1974)
• Strategic Air Command (1955)
• Words and Music (1948)
• Twenty Years After (1944)
• These Old Broads (2001)
• Curse of the Black Widow (1977)
• Executive Suite (1954)
• Girl Crazy (1943)
• Battle Circus (1953)
• Woman's World (1954)
• You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
• See the Man Run (1973)
• The Secret Heart (1946)
• The Stratton Story (1949)
• They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
• Two Sisters from Boston (1946)