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 ... Zanuck, who envisioned the wholesome, vivacious actress following in Grable's footsteps as Hollywood's next blonde pinup girl.

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, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals ... Zanuck, who envisioned the wholesome, vivacious actress following in Grable’s footsteps as Hollywood’s next blonde pinup girl.

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.

LOS ANGELES -- June Haver, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals ... Zanuck, who envisioned the wholesome, vivacious actress following in Grable's footsteps as Hollywood's next blonde pinup ...