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June Allyson

Highest Rated: 100% Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Lowest Rated: 17% Words and Music (1948)

Birthday: Oct 7, 1917

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

Vivacious blonde MGM star of the 1940s and '50s, in light comedies, musicals and romances, with a likably hoarse voice and a wistful girl-next-door quality. After a successful career on Broadway, Allyson appeared in several shorts and then made her feature debut, recreating her peppy ingenue role in the film version of the 1941 Broadway musical, "Best Foot Forward" (1943). Usually cast as sweet and wholesomely girlish types, Allyson brought an occasionally tomboyish quality to roles in films including "Good News" (1947) and "Little Women" (1949). She made a popular romantic team with the boyishly disarming Van Johnson, with whom she co-starred in five films ranging from the musical "Two Girls and a Sailor" (1944) to the drama "High Barbaree" (1947) to the farce "The Bride Goes Wild" (1948). Allyson's singing voice also enhanced the appeal of such comic songs as "Thou Swell" and "Cleopatterer." Allyson later matured into supportive wife roles in the 1950s ("The Stratton Story" 1949, "The Glenn Miller Story" 1954, "Strategic Air Command" 1955), switching gears once to play the shrewish wife in "The Shrike" (1955). In the late 1950s, she turned to starring in a TV anthology drama, "The June Allyson Show," from 1959 to 1961. In later years Allyson did very occasional TV and film work and regularly made appearances in public and in the media to speak of the pleasures of the old Hollywood studio system (as in "That's Entertainment III" 1994). She was married to Dick Powell (with whom she co-starred in "Right Cross" and "The Reformer and the Redhead," both 1950) from 1945 until his death in 1963.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 47% Till the Clouds Roll By
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100% 81% Two Girls and a Sailor
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100% 82% That's Entertainment! III
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100% 78% Good News
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100% 75% Executive Suite
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100% 75% Girl Crazy
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89% 80% The Glenn Miller Story
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89% 80% The Stratton Story
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75% 83% Little Women
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75% 74% The Three Musketeers
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Filmography

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A Girl, 3 Guys And A Gun 2000 Joey's Grandma Actor That's Entertainment! III 100% 82% 1994 Self The Kid With the Broken Halo 1982 Dorothea Powell Actor Vegas 1978 Loretta Ochs Actor Blackout 14% 1978 Mrs. Grant Actor Three on a Date 1978 Marge Emery Actor Curse of the Black Widow 33% 1977 Olga Actor Letters From Three Lovers 1973 Monica Actor They Only Kill Their Masters 32% 1972 Mrs. Watkins Actor See the Man Run 1971 Helene Spencer Actor Stranger in My Arms 1959 Christina Beasley Actor My Man Godfrey 52% 1957 Irene Bullock Actor Interlude 80% 1957 Helen Banning Actor You Can't Run Away From It 22% 1956 Ellen "Ellie" Andrews Actor The Opposite Sex 40% 45% 1956 Kay Actor Strategic Air Command 49% 1955 Sally Holland Actor The McConnell Story 42% 1955 Pearl `'Butch'` Brown Actor The Shrike 1955 Ann Downs Actor A Woman's World 67% 1954 Katie Baxter Actor Executive Suite 100% 75% 1954 Mary Blemond Walling Actor The Glenn Miller Story 89% 80% 1954 Helen Berger/Helen Miller Actor Battle Circus 24% 1953 Lt. Ruth McGara Actor Remains to Be Seen 1953 Jody Revere Actor The Girl in White 1952 Dr. Emily Dunning Actor Too Young to Kiss 38% 1951 Cynthia Potter Actor
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