June Haver

June Haver, (June 10, 1926 – July 4, 2005), was an American film actress, who was born in Rock Island, Illinois as June Stovenour; her name became Haver when her mother divorced and remarried.

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Haver began singing on stage at the age of six, working regularly as a band singer by her teens. In 1943 the Fox movie studio had hired her, with her first starring role as Cri-Cri in Home In Indiana (1945). Later that year she co-starred with Fred MacMurray in Where Do We Go From Here?, which was the only time the pair appeared together in a film.

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Although Haver was originally groomed to be the next Betty Grable (she was known as "Pocket Grable"), her acting career was to be brief. In 1952, following a divorce and the death of her fianc?, she announced that she would become a nun. Accounts differ on whether she entered a convent briefly in 1953 or decided against going. At that time, Haver met MacMurray again, and a romantic relationship developed. They were married on June 28, 1954, and Haver remained largely retired from acting (her last appearances were as herself on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour in 1958 and Disneyland '59); she later found some success as an interior decorator. The couple adopted two daughers and remained together until MacMurray's death in 1991.

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At the urging of friends Ann Miller and Ann Rutherford, Haver finally joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the age of 75. She died from respiratory failure four years later at her home in Brentwood, California at the age of 79. Haver left behind two stepchildren (by MacMurray's first marriage), two adopted children, and seven grandchildren.

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