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 ...