Gloria Mildred DeHaven

 Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016)

DeHaven was an actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM. She had featured roles in such films as Best Foot Forward (1943), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Scene of the Crime (1949) and Summer Stock (1950), and was voted by exhibitors as the third most likely to be a "star of tomorrow'" in 1944. She portrayed her own mother, Flora Parker DeHaven, in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words (1950). After a long absence from the screen, DeHaven appeared as the love interest of Jack Lemmon in the comedy Out to Sea (1997), also starring Walter Matthau. From January 1969 to February 1971, DeHaven hosted a morning call-in movie show on WABC-TV in New York City. She was also a guest panelist on Match Game 75. DeHaven died on July 30, 2016 in Las Vegas of undisclosed causes a week after her 91st birthday while in hospice care after having had a stroke a few months earlier.