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 ...

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.

The Classic Film Society will begin its fourth season Saturday with a screening of a rarely seen classic slice of Americana titled "Home in Indiana," featuring Rock Island native June Haver.

She is survived by two adopted daughters, two stepchildren, seven grand-children and four great-grandchildren. June Haver, actress; born June 10, 1926, died July 4, 2005.

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 ...

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 MacMurray, the singer/actress who won over a city of admirers during a 1997 visit to her famous husband's hometown, died Monday of respiratory failure at her Brentwood, Calif.

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.

BRENTWOOD, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Actress and singer June Haver, who left Hollywood to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, died at her Brentwood, Calif., home at 79.