Gloria DeHaven

Gloria DeHaven
Publicity photo, 1953
Born	Gloria Mildred DeHaven (1925-07-23)July 23, 1925 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	July 30, 2016(2016-07-30) (aged 91) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1936–2000
Spouse(s)	John Payne (1944–1950; divorced; 2 children) Martin Kimmel (1953–1954; divorced) Richard Fincher (1957–1963; divorced; 2 children) Richard Fincher (1965–1969; divorced)
Children	4

Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. A 1983 newspaper article reported, "Miss DeHaven ... says that her real family name was O'Callahan before her father legally changed his name to DeHaven."

She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM. She had featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward (1943), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Scene of the Crime (1949) and (1950), and was voted by exhibitors as the third most likely to be a "star of tomorrow'" in 1944. She portrayed her own mother, Flora Parker DeHaven, in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words (1950).

After a long absence from the screen, DeHaven appeared as the love interest of Jack Lemmon in the comedy Out to Sea (1997), also starring Walter Matthau.

DeHaven's musical talents supplemented her acting abilities. Besides being cast as a singer in many of her films, including I'll Get By, So This Is Paris and The Girl Rush, and performing numbers in many of her movies, DeHaven sang with the bands of Jan Savitt and Bob Crosby and at one time had her own nightclub act.