American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined within a steel brace...See full bio »
1947Good News
(performer: "Lucky in Love" - uncredited, "The French Lesson" - uncredited, "The Best Things in Life Are Free" - uncredited, "Just Imagine" - uncredited, "Varsity Drag" - uncredited)
1946Till the Clouds Roll By
(performer: "Cleopatterer" - uncredited, "Till The Clouds Roll By" - uncredited, "Leave It to Jane" - uncredited)
1944Meet the People
(performer: "I Like to Recognize the Tune" 1939)
1944Two Girls and a Sailor
(performer: "Sweet And Lovely" Revised Edition - uncredited, "A Tisket, a Tasket" - uncredited, "A Love Like Ours" - uncredited, "The Young Man with a Horn" - uncredited)
1943Girl Crazy
(performer: "Treat Me Rough" 1930 - uncredited)
MGM was my mother and father, mentor and guide, my all-powerful and benevolent crutch. When I left them, it was like walking into space.
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Trivia:
When she was eight years old, she was crushed by a falling tree limb while riding a bicycle. She wore a back brace for four years and taught herself to dance by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. She was told that the accident would prevent her from having children. Her first child, Pamela Powell...
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