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: "Till The Clouds Roll By" - uncredited, "Cleopatterer" - 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" 1931 - uncredited, "A Tisket, a Tasket" 1938 - uncredited, "A Love Like Ours" 1943 - uncredited, "The Young Man with a Horn" 1944 - uncredited)
1943Girl Crazy
(performer: "Treat Me Rough" 1930 - uncredited)
1943Thousands Cheer
(performer: "In a Little Spanish Town" - uncredited)
1943Best Foot Forward
(performer: "Wish I May" 1941, "The Three B's" 1941)
1940All Girl Revue
(short)
(performer: "We've Got to Make the City Pretty")
1938The Knight Is Young
(short)
(performer: "What Do You Hear from the Mob in Scotland?" - uncredited, "Bob White Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?" - uncredited)
1938The Prisoner of Swing
(short)
(performer: "Pardon Me If I Say It with My Feet" - uncredited)
1938Sing for Sweetie
(short)
(performer: "Let's Take It on the Chin")
1937Ups and Downs
(short)
(performer: "Rhythm Personality" - uncredited, "The Dancing Financier" - uncredited)
[assessing her appeal as a performer] I have big teeth. I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom.
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Was a good friend of Judy Garland. They were both under contract at MGM in the 1940s, and Judy used to give June rides in Judy's car to the studio whenever possible. In interviews after Garland's passing, Allyson said that she could hardly talk about Garland without getting tears in her eyes because she was such a special lady who didn't have appropriate help available to her in her lifetime.
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,4,136,14,196,arialbd,7,255,255,255,1_.jpg "Simon & Simon: Season 2: Episode 8 -- A widow (June Allyson) claims her husband, who is supposedly missing at sea, has visited her.")
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