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June Allyson. June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor.
Aug 31, 2022 · 1. She Was Born Into Turmoil. June Allyson, born Eleanor Geisman, had a rough go of it from the start. The tumultuous relationship between her parents, Clara and Robert, was already on its last legs when she was born on October 7, 1917. Sadly, her arrival did little to hash things out between them.
June Allyson. Actress: Executive Suite. American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined within a ...
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June Allyson, whose perky wholesomeness made her the perfect girlfriend in a series of MGM musicals during the 1940s and the perfect screen wife during the 1950s, died Saturday at her home in...
May 21, 2018 · Born Eleanor Geisman, October 7, 1917, in the Bronx, NY; died of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis, July 8, 2006, in Ojai, CA. Actress. Screen actress June Allyson was best known for her roles in MGM films of the 1940s and 1950s.
History. Dutch Americans. June Allyson [1917-2006] Stage and Screen Performer. Unlike her contemporary Dutch-American actress Betty Grable, who was revered as a pinup girl and sex symbol in her younger years, June Allyson was just a consummate movie actress with enormous staying powers.
Young BAFTA. Home Heritage In memory of June Allyson. June Allyson. Actress. 7 October 1917 to 7 July 2006. A Hollywood sweetheart who embodied the girl-next-door persona in the 40s, Allyson's most popular screen roles were as James Stewart's wife in The Stratton Story (1949), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and Strategic Air Command (1955).
