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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.
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 steel brace.
Aug 31, 2022 · June Allyson was Hollywood’s “girl next door”—but beneath her sweet charms, she hid, not only a penchant for scandal, but a startlingly dark history.
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.
Screen actress June Allyson was best known for her roles in MGM films of the 1940s and 1950s. She played the ideal girlfriend in musicals in the 1940s, then progressed to playing the faultless wife in the 1950s. Allyson was a perky blonde whose husky voice belied her petite physique.
Jul 10, 2006 · June Allyson, the sunny, raspy-voiced “perfect wife” of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie heroes, has died, her daughter said Monday. She was 88. Allyson died Saturday at her home in...
Jul 10, 2006 · June Allyson, the sunny on-screen "perfect wife" of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie heroes, has died, her daughter Pamela Allyson Powell said Monday. She was 88.