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.

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 ...