June Allyson
Gender: Female
Born: 7th October 1917
Died: 8th July 2006
Nationality: United States of America, Germany
TV programs: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Movies: Battle Circus, Little Women, The Glenn Miller Story, My Man Godfrey, That's Entertainment III, Strategic Air Command, The Three Musketeers, The Secret Heart, Right Cross, The Stratton Story, The Opposite Sex, You Can't Run Away from It, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Best Foot Forward, Good News, Till the Clouds Roll By, Two Girls and a Sailor, Meet the People, Woman's World, Too Young to Kiss, The Girl in White, The Reformer and the Redhead, Two Sisters from Boston, Curse of the Black Widow, Girl Crazy, Executive Suite, They Only Kill Their Masters, Words and Music, Blackout, Ups and Downs, The Kid with the Broken Halo, Letters from Three Lovers, Music for Millions, The Sailor Takes a Wife, The Bride Goes Wild, High Barbaree, Remains to Be Seen, The McConnell Story
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss (1951). From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments.
Allyson was born Eleanor Geisman, nicknamed "Ella," in The Bronx, New York City. She was the daughter of Clara (née Provost) and Robert Geisman. She had a brother, Henry, who was two years older. She claimed to be raised as a Roman Catholic but there is discrepancy relating to her early life as her studio biography was often the source of the confusion. Her paternal grandparents, Harry Geisman and Anna Hafner, were immigrants from Germany, although Allyson claimed her last name was originally "Van Geisman", and was of Dutch origin. Studio biographies listed her as "Jan Allyson" born to French-English parents. On her death her daughter said Allyson was born "Eleanor Geisman to a French mother and Dutch father."
In April 1918 (when Allyson
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