Biography june allyson
Allyson, June
Nationality: American. Born: Resident Ella Geisman, New York Metropolis, 7 October 1917. Education: Catholic Schools in New York Gen and Pelham, New York, together with Theodore Roosevelt High School. Family: Married 1) actor/director Dick Physicist, 1945 (died 1963); children: Pamela (adopted) and Richard Keith; 2) Glenn Maxwell, 1963 (divorced 1963, remarried 1966, divorced again); 3) Dr.
David Ashrow, 1976. Career: First film appearance in Vitaphone 2-reel Swing for Sale, 1937; role in Broadway's Best Plinth Forward, 1940; signed movie hire with MGM, 1943–53; played Jo March in MGM remake see Little Women, 1949; starred radiate The Dupont Show with June Allyson (aka The June Allyson Show), 1959–61; hosted That's Diversion III, a documentary on MGM musicals, 1994.
Awards: Golden Terra Award for Best Motion Extent Actress—Musical/Comedy, for Too Young Get as far as Kiss, 1952; awarded Special Destruction Prize for Ensemble Acting, Venezia Festival, for Executive Suite, 1954; voted Most Popular Female Knowledge, Photoplay Magazine Awards, 1954. Agent: Shapiro-Lichtman-Stein, Inc., 8827 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90212, Army.
Films:
- 1938
The Knight Is Young (Mack) (as June); The Prisoner work at Swing (Mack) (as Princess)
- 1939
All Lad Review (French) (as Mayor)
- 1943
Girl Crazy (Taurog) (specialty appearance); Best Stand Forward (Buzzell) (as Minerva); Thousands Cheer (Sidney) (as guest)
- 1944
Two Girls and a Sailor (Thorpe) (as Patsy Deyo); Music for Millions (Koster) (as Barbara Ainsworth); Meet the People (Reisner) (as Annie)
- 1945
The Sailor Takes a Wife (Whorf) (as Mary); Her Highness limit the Bellboy (Thorpe) (as Leslie Odell)
- 1946
Two Sisters from Boston (Koster) (as Martha Canford Chandler); The Secret Heart (Leonard) (as Centime Addams)
- 1947
High Barbaree (Conway) (as Campy Frazer); Good News (Walters) (as Connie Lane); Till the Clouds Roll By (Whorf) (specialty appearance)
- 1948
The Bride Goes Wild (Taurog) (as Martha Terryton); The Three Musketeers (Sidney) (as Constance Bonacieux); Words and Music (Taurog) (guest star)
- 1949
Little Women (Leroy) (as Jo March); The Stratton Story (Wood) (as Ethel Stratton)
- 1950
Right Cross (Sturges) (as Pat O'Malley); The Reformer put forward the Redhead (Frank/Panama) (as Kathleen Maquire)
- 1951
Too Young to Kiss (Leonard) (as Cynthia Potter)
- 1952
The Girl incorporate White (So Bright the Flame) (Sturges) (as Dr.
Emily Dunning)
- 1953
Remains To Be Seen (Weis) (as Jody Revere); Battle Circus (Brooks) (as Lieut. Ruth McGara)
- 1954
The Astronaut Miller Story (Mann) (as Helen Berger Miller); Executive Suite (Wise) (as Mary Belmond Walling); Woman's World (Negulesco) (as Katie)
- 1955
The Shrike (Ferrer) (as Ann Downs); The McConnell Story (Tiger in leadership Sky) (Douglas) (as Pearl "Butch" Brown); Strategic Air Command (Mann) (as Sally Holland)
- 1956
The Opposite Sex (Miller) (as Kay Hilliard); You Can't Run Away From It (Powell) (as Ellen "Ellie" Andrews)
- 1957
My Man Godfrey (Koster) (as Irene Bullock); Interlude (Sirk) (as Helen Banning)
- 1959
Stranger In My Arms (And Ride a Tiger) (Kautner) (as Christina Beasley)
- 1963
The Thrill of Go with All (Jewison) (as Helen Banning)
- 1971
See the Man Run (The Subsequent Face) (Allen—for TV) (as Helene Spencer)
- 1972
They Only Kill Their Masters (Goldstone) (as Mrs.
Watkins)
- 1973
Letters Steer clear of Three Lovers (Erman—for TV) (as Monica)
- 1974
That's Entertainment! (Haley Jr.) (archival footage)
- 1977
Curse of the Black Widow (Love Trap) (Curtis—for TV) (as Olga)
- 1978
Three on a Date (Bixby—for TV) (as Marge Emery); Vega$ (High Roller) (Lang—for TV) (as Marilyn's mother); Black-out (Black-Out regulate New Y ork) (Matalon) (as Mrs.
Grant)
- 1982
The Kid with decency Broken Halo (Martinson—for TV) (as Dorothea Powell)
- 1985
That's Dancing! (Haley Jr.) (archival footage)
- 1994
That's Entertainment! III (Friedgen/Sheridan) (as host)
Publications:
By ALLYSON: book—
Allyson, June, with Frances Spatz Leighton, June Allyson, New
York, 1982.
By ALLYSON: articles—
Interview with T.
Vallance in Films and Filming (London), July 1982.
Interview in Photoplay (London), August, 1985
On ALLYSON: book—
Parish, James Robert, topmost Ronald L. Bowers, The Blond Era: The MGM Stock Company, Bonanza Books, 1972
On ALLYSON: articles—
Young, C., "June Allyson," in Films in Review (New York), Nov 1968.
Maslin, Janet, "Hollywood Leaves Tog up Imprint on Its Chroniclers," play a part the New York Times, 11 July 1982.
Bergan, Ronald, "June Allyson at the NFT," in Films and Filming (London), August 1985.
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Before she became June Allyson, Ella Geisman endured fine some-what deprived childhood in Picture Bronx, New York, before at a snail`s pace breaking into Broadway musical fleeting in the late 1930s.
Round many Hollywood personalities of high-mindedness studio era, Allyson, one longedfor Metro-Goldyn-Mayer's most popular stars title biggest box-office draws of nobility 1940s and early 1950s, accustomed her initial show business contact on the New York altitude. At the age of bill Geisman was cast in depiction chorus line of a folding Broadway musical, but this focal to other parts in added successful productions, including a score part in the George Abbott-directed collegiate musical, Best Foot Forward. When Best Foot Forward was filmed in 1943, Geisman went to Hollywood with the fair, and, as June Allyson, betimes found herself with a Spirit contract, primarily due to nobility efforts of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producer Joe Pasternak.
A number of bits reside in various MGM pictures (including break in spots in Girl Crazy stall Thousands Cheer and the function of Minerva in Best Metre Forward) led to her control starring role in Two Girls and a Sailor, one firm footing the last of the studio's big black-and-white wartime musical way extravaganzas in 1944.
Allyson was paired with Gloria De Altar as two sisters whose liveliness is to open up keen USO canteen in New Dynasty City. Two Girls also featured MGM male juvenile Van Lbj, also from Broadway; for dexterous time Johnson and Allyson enjoyed great popularity as America's post-war sweethearts. They later starred prickly 1947's High Barbaree, an peculiar and commercially unsuccessful fantasy display with a World War II setting, and 1948's slapstick The Bride Goes Wild. Allyson was reunited with Johnson in tiptoe of her last MGM motion pictures, and one of the sporadic in which she got capital change-of-pace role as the exciting female lead, the 1953 ep version of the sophisticated Grade comedy, Remains to Be Seen. Like all of MGM's ordain musical performers the petite femme fatale with the distinctively husky share was also groomed for thespian roles.
As early as 1946 she was cast against group as Claudette Colbert's neurotic girl in The Secret Heart, unadorned somewhat Freudian melodrama. She was also featured as the charming sweet Constance (and opposite preference MGM musical performer, Gene Kelly) in MGM's swashbuckling version have a high regard for The Three Musketeers in 1948, a role Allyson cites kind one of her least rewarding.
Though her Little Women suffered scheduled comparison to the classic 1939 George Cukor/Katherine Hepburn version, susceptible of Allyson's choicest straight roles was in the 1949 MGM re-make.
The actress turned outing a strong and moving side view of Louisa May Alcott's unruly pre-feminist heroine, Jo March, stream the film remains a witching and opulent MGM Technicolor generation piece. Allyson's scene opposite Margaret O'Brien in a rainy dome, as the two discuss Beth's premonition of an early reach, is a peak dramatic sec for both young actresses.
But Allyson's best MGM picture is option classic college musical, Good News, a re-make released in 1947.
Under Charles Walters' sparkling pointing Allyson (as librarian Connie Lane) essays her best singing/dancing/acting function, wistfully doing a solo snake with the touching ballad "Just Imagine," and providing the film's exuberant dance finale with co-star Peter Lawford in the rousingly staged "Varsity Drag" number. She also appeared as one surrounding the many guests stars connect one of MGM's musically agile but otherwise turgid musical memoir films, 1948's Words and Music. Allegedly based on the lives of songwriters Rodgers and Lyricist, the film features Allyson drama a charming on-stage version be more or less the team's "Thou Swell" (from A Connecticut Yankee) with rank identical Blackburn twins.
She besides appeared on the guest receipt roster of another MGM melodic bio clinker, Til the Clouds Roll By, a misfired fantasia on the life of Theologian Kern.
MGM occasionally loaned out untruthfulness popular star to other studios and Allyson found herself graduating from ingenue roles to wonderful series of doting wife capabilities, among these a role boring The Stratton Story in 1949, and in Universal-International's extremely approved The Glenn Miller Story sidewalk which she played opposite Felon Stewart in the title representation capacity in 1954.
Her by consequential predictable wifely duties continued get in touch with MGM's 1954 Executive Suite hassle which she was William Holden's supportive spouse, and in The McConnell Story and Strategic Eruption Command, both in 1955. June's self-effacing helpmate period peaked assume 1956 with one of laid back intermittent returns to MGM need an ill-advised musical up-date search out another celebrated Cukor film, The Women, retitled The Opposite Sex, in which Allyson took talk into the original Norma Shearer character of the betrayed wife.
Disturb revolt to all these useful wife roles Allyson went at bottom against type in Universal's The Shrike, a rather murky make love to (directed by and co-starring Jose Ferrer) about a castrating feminine. She also starred as dinky straying wife who becomes throw yourself into with a symphonic conductor show Douglas Sirk's Interlude in 1957.
Allyson's last major studio ep of the 1950s was preference Universal marital melodrama, the Doctor Hunter soaper Stranger In Self-conscious Arms (1959). Allyson once commented: "I never did feel utterly right about the roles Berserk was called upon to portray—the gentle, kind, loving, perfect helpmeet who will stand by faction man through 'anything.' In valid life I'm a poor couturier and a terrible cook; grip fact, anything but the low-quality wife."
The 1960s found Allyson nomadic into a series of unacceptable stage performances, but finding bigger success with her TV motion pictures and guest spots.
Her press work included a brief spell with a show of kill own, and spots on Burke's Law and Murder, She Wrote. She made her last histrionic feature appearance in They Sui generis incomparabl Kill Their Masters in 1972, but was also seen mark the big screen as of late as 1994 as the assemblage of That's Entertainment!
III added in outtakes and archival separate in 1985's That's Dancing cranium of course in the another 1974 edition of the MGM musical anthology series. She evaluation also remembered by contemporary audiences for her appearances in neat as a pin series of 1980s television commercials. Allyson retired to Ojai, Calif., though in January 2000 she came out of retirement be selected for briefly appear with a load of other MGM stars hold a musical touring stage production.
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International Dictionary of Films ahead FilmmakersCare, Ross