June Allyson
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Though she despised the appellation "the girl next door," this was how June Allyson was promoted throughout most of her MGM career. The blonde, raspy-voiced actress was born in a tenement section of the Bronx. Her career nearly ended before it began... more
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Cast: June Allyson Brent Florence Kenny Luper   
Length: 95min
Three sad sacks learn the connection between crime and auto repair in this independent comedy. Frank (Brent Florence), Neil (Christian Leffler), and Joey (Kenny Luper) are three 20-something buddies living in a one horse town in Northern California....

Cast: Mary Astor June Allyson Charles Coburn Peter Graves Ross Hunter   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: 88min
Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a neurotically possessive mother who'll stop at nothing to win a posthumous medal of honor for her son. But air force major...

That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Cast: Lena Horne Gene Kelly Debbie Reynolds Mickey Rooney Joan Crawford   
Tags: Dance Biography Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 113min
In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled That's Entertainment!, it was a big box-office hit and inspired a second compilation two years later. Eighteen years went by...

Cast: June Allyson John Dunning Ray Milland Robert Carradine Jean-Pierre Aumont   
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller 
Length: 89min
In this above-average, exciting Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy Manhattan apartment building during the New York power blackout. They move from apartment to apartment,...

Cast: David Niven June Allyson Eva Gabor Robert Keith Ross Hunter   
Tags: Sophisticated Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy 
Length: 93min
The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957 remake. David Niven steps into the old William Powell role as hobo-turned-butler Godfrey, while June Allyson does her best in the...

They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Cast: Hal Holbrook June Allyson James Garner Katharine Ross Peter Lawford   
Tags: Drama Mystery Crime Police Detective Film 
Length: 97min
A small-town California sheriff attempts to uncover facts behind the killing of a pregnant woman by her Doberman pinscher. James Garner stars in this mystery with performances by June Allyson and Ann Rutherford among others. ~ Kristie Hassen, All...

You Can't Run Away From It (1956)
Cast: Jack Lemmon June Allyson Dick Powell Jim Backus Howard McNear   
Tags: Screwball Comedy 
Length: 95min
You Can't Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins when spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (June Allyson)...

Cast: Alan Ladd June Allyson James Whitmore Gordon M. Douglas John F. Seitz   
Tags: Docudrama Biopic War Drama Action Adventure 
Length: 107min
Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does her usual as McConnell's anxious, waiting-nervously-at-home wife. Assigned to the medical corps during WWII, McConnell takes...

Cast: June Allyson Rossano Brazzi Françoise Rosay Bud Westmore Derek Jacobi   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 90min
Like many of his best works, filmmaker Douglas Sirk's Interlude is a remake of an earlier Universal soap opera. In this case, Sirk's source material is the 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer vehicle When Tomorrow Comes. Based on a story by (of all people)...

Cast: June Allyson Ann Miller Sammy Cahn Jim Backus Agnes Moorehead   
Tags: Satire Comedy Musical Romance 
Length: 115min
The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma Shearer role, playing the virtuous wife who loses her husband to scheming Joan Collins (as the Joan Crawford character). At first...

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