1. Gloria DeHaven began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
14 Facts About Gloria DeHaven
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Gloria DeHaven had featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward, The Thin Man Goes Home, Scene of the Crime and Summer Stock, and was voted by exhibitors as the third most likely to be a "star of tomorrow'" in 1944.
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Gloria DeHaven portrayed her own mother, Flora Parker DeHaven, in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words.
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Gloria DeHaven was heard on four of the Revisited compilations produced by Ben Bagley.
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Gloria DeHaven appeared in the soap operas Ryan's Hope, As the World Turns, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
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On March 21,1974, Gloria DeHaven appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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From January 1969 to February 1971, Gloria DeHaven hosted a morning call-in movie show on WABC-TV in New York City.
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Gloria DeHaven appeared on five episodes of Match Game 75 as a guest panelist.
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Gloria DeHaven played Diane in the musical version of Seventh Heaven.
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Gloria DeHaven toured in a summer stock production of No, No, Nanette.
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Gloria DeHaven was married to Richard Fincher, member of the Florida House of Representatives and a Miami Oldsmobile dealer, from 1957 until 1963.
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Gloria DeHaven has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd.
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Gloria DeHaven was a staunch Republican and attributed her youthful appearance in later years to an organic diet and faith in prayer.
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Gloria DeHaven died on July 30,2016, in Las Vegas of undisclosed causes a week after her 91st birthday while in hospice care after having had a stroke a few months earlier.