Thursday, July 20, 2006

June Allyson Dies at age 88



LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- June Allyson, the sunny on-screen "perfect wife" of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie leading men, has died, her daughter, Pamela Allyson Powell, said Monday. She was 88.

During World War II, American GIs pinned up photos of Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable, but June Allyson was the girl they wanted to come home to. Petite and blonde with fresh-faced optimism, she had the image of an ideal sweetheart and wife.

I loved her with Jimmy Stewart. Click on the title above for the CNN obituary.