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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gloria DeHaven, the babe of amphitheater stars who carved out her own acknowledged career as the bright-eyed, active brilliant of Hollywood musicals and comedies of the 1940s and '50s, died Saturday in Las Vegas. She was 91.

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Her abettor Scott Stander said Monday DeHaven was in auberge affliction afterwards adversity a achievement a few months ago.

As an MGM arrangement player, the adorable DeHaven additionally airish for her allotment of bathing clothing pictures, which fabricated her a amazon admired of GIs during World War II.

As a teenager, she toured with big bands led by Bing Crosby's brother Bob and others. An MGM aptitude advance spotted her at a concert in Texas.

After accessory roles in "Best Foot Forward" and "Broadway Rhythm," DeHaven accomplished distinction in 1944's "Two Girls and a Sailor," in which she and June Allyson played sisters allusive for the angel of Van Johnson.

MGM went on to apply DeHaven frequently as the additional advance in such failing films as "Summer Holiday," ''Summer Stock," ''The Yellow Cab Man" (with Red Skelton) and "Three Little Words," the biopic of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. In the closing film, she portrayed her own mother.

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DeHaven never accomplished the top distinction Allyson and Kathryn Grayson enjoyed in agreeable movies for MGM, but had bigger luck at added studios, starring with Donald O'Connor in "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," Tony Curtis in "So This Is Paris" and Glenn Ford in "The Doctor and the Girl."

With her cine career crumbling in the 1950s, DeHaven angry to television and theater. She hosted ABC's 15-minute "Gloria DeHaven Show," appeared on abundant array specials and became a approved on Bob Hope's across tours to absorb U.S. soldiers.

She additionally starred in the alternation "Nakia," ''Delta House" and "Girl Talk" and played diffuse roles in the soap operas "Ryan's Hope" and "As the World Turns."

DeHaven starred on Broadway with Ricardo Montalban in "Seventh Heaven" in 1955 and toured in "The Sound of Music," ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown," ''Hello Dolly" and "Cactus Flower."

After a decades-long absence, DeHaven alternate to films in 1997 with "Out at Sea," arena a complete woman who has a shipboard affair with Jack Lemmon.

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"I anticipation I would be actual nervous," she said at the time. "It was like I'd never been away. Like activity home."

The alone aberration she noticed was the faster clip Hollywood films were actuality fabricated compared to the 1940s and 50s.

"When I was beneath contract, we had a abundant accord added time," she said.

In her youth, DeHaven generally toured with her parents, a accepted account aggregation billed in Broadway shows, amphitheater and bashful movies as Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven. (Her mother's name was Flora Parker).

After the amphitheater era died, her ancestor formed as an abettor administrator on Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times." Back 11-year-old Gloria visited her ancestor on the set, Chaplin assassin her to comedy Paulette Goddard's adolescent sister.

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Six years after her brother, Carter Jr., landed DeHaven an audience with Bob Crosby's band. She was center through her aboriginal song back Crosby disconnected and told her, "OK, you can go home now."

Thinking she bootless the audition, she left, alone to be contacted by the bandleader the abutting day. Crosby apologized and told her, "I disconnected you because you were absolute for the job."

DeHaven was affiliated and afar four times, including alert to Florida auto banker Richard Fincher.

She had two children, Kathy and Thomas, with her aboriginal husband, amateur John Payne, and two with Fincher, Harry and Faith. Harry Fincher did some acting beneath the name Richard DeHaven, according to the Internet Cine Database.

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