June Haver, 79, the sunny film actress of 1940s musicals who was promoted as "Hollywood's sweetest star" but whose personal turmoil caused her to flee briefly to a convent in Kansas, died of ...

LOS ANGELES – June Haver (search), the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable (search) but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died. She was 79.

June Haver, a singer and actress once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be "the next Betty Grable" but who left acting to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, has died.

June Haver, pictured here in her 1940's glamour days, was a movie star and Rock Island native. Her 1944 film, "Home in Indiana," will be shown Saturday at 7 p.m. at Marycrest Senior Living ...

June Haver, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died. She was 79.

June Haver, who was groomed to be the successor to Betty Grable in the 1940s and was actor Fred MacMurray's wife until his death in 1991, died Monday at her Brentwood home from respiratory failure.

June Haver, who died on July 4 aged 79, was an actress groomed to become "the next Betty Grable", but quit her $3,500-a-week contract at Twentieth Century Fox in 1953 to become a nun. She was born ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- June Haver, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died. She was 79. Haver, who ...

June Haver, a singer and actress once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be “the next Betty Grable” but who left acting to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, has died. She was 79.