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June Allyson
June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress.
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entertainment · American actress (1917–2006) · film actor · dancer · stage actor · television actor · singer · actor · also June Allyson, Allyson
Born 7 October 1917 · Died 8 July 2006 · Q232863
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959-1961)
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2024· 1 entry
Moviefone: The DuPont Show with June Allyson - Season 1 (1959)
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2006· 3 entries
Independent Record: June Allyson, sweetheart actress of '40s and '50s, dies at age 88
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Times Argus: June Allyson dies
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Died 2006-07-08.
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2003· 1 entry
Allyson's health began to deteriorate
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1998· 1 entry
Made possible by a grant from Kimberly-Clark
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1996· 1 entry
Allyson became the first recipient of the Harvey Award, presented by the James M
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1994· 1 entry
In That's Entertainment III, as one of the film's narrators
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1993· 1 entry
Actor-turned-agent Marty Ingels publicly charged Allyson with not paying his large commission on the earlier deal on incontinence product advertising
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1988· 1 entry
Reagan appointed her to the Federal Council on Aging
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1982· 1 entry
Allyson released her autobiography, June Allyson by June Allyson, and continued her career with guest-starring roles on television and occasional film appearances
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1976· 1 entry
Allyson married David Ashrow, a dentist turned actor
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1970· 2 entries
In the play Forty Carats and later toured in a production of No, No, Nanette
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Briefly starred in Forty Carats on Broadway
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1963· 1 entry
Was going to elope with Powell's barber, Glenn Maxwell, but decided against it
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1961· 1 entry
Allyson underwent a kidney operation and later, throat surgery, temporarily affecting her trademark raspy voice
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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1957· 1 entry
Signed with Universal to do two more remakes: Interlude, a drama for Douglas Sirk, and My Man Godfrey, a comedy with David Niven
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1956· 1 entry
Allyson starred in some musical remakes of classic films: The Opposite Sex, a remake of The Women at MGM, and You Can't Run Away from It, a remake of It Happened One Night at Columbia, which was directed by Powell
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Henrietta Award (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Allyson was in a huge Universal Pictures hit, The Glenn Miller Story,which starred James Stewart as well as another successful MGM film, Executive Suite
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1952· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Too Young to Kiss (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss
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1950· 1 entry
Allyson had been signed to appear opposite her childhood idol Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding but had to leave the production due to pregnancy
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1948· 1 entry
Through the Tennessee Children's Home Society in an adoption arranged by Georgia Tann) and Richard Powell, Jr
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1947· 1 entry
Released album “Till the Clouds Roll By”.
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1946· 1 entry
With Claudette Colbert and Walter Pidgeon
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1945· 1 entry
Allyson caused MGM studio chief Louis B
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1943· 1 entry
And rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor
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1940· 1 entry
Allyson returned to the stage to take on more chorus roles in Rodgers and Hart's Higher and Higher (1940) and Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (1940)
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1937· 1 entry
As a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938
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1925· 1 entry
(when Allyson was eight), a tree branch fell on her while she was riding her tricycle with her pet terrier in tow
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-10-07.
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