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June Allyson remained wildly popular throughout most of the 1950s. Many people associate her more with MGM's late 1940s musicals (1947's Good News was her best) but she was only getting started then. As much as Betty Grable was the pin-up girl for whom the GIs fought WWII, June represented the home town sweetheart for whom they all returned.
Though tastes have changed, during WWII and the years that followed, Van and June Allyson were touted by MGM in roles that presented them as the perfect young American couple, the hope of the future, representing the ideals we fought for during the war.
Kind of sad to watch Judy Holliday in that MG moment at r15. She had just opened on Broadway in a HUGE flop musical called HOT SPOT in which she played a daffy Peace Corp worker (I think) in Africa Terrible reviews after tortuous out of town tryouts and creatives being fired left and right.
June Lockhart was better educated and more enlightened than Graham. Thank God for the theatre community and the film and television industry. Yes, there were those like Graham. And then there were those like Lockhart (as well as the guy next to her on the couch). The latter were at the forefront of acceptance. Liked her as Maureen Robinson.
June Allyson with her sing-song appeal is just grating to me. Her Jo in Little Women is the worst one. Errol Flynn was handsome but his movies are forgettable. Mickey Rooney. How he became a star tells you everything about early (ish) movie audiences. This guy would the comic side kick at best these days. I also dislike his movies.
June Haver. Linda Darnell. Though Gene Tierney is remembered, if only for LAURA. Grable is the standard for faded stars. She was the biggest Hollywood star of the '40s, though very few of her movies have aged well. She died only in her 50s in 1973, right when the "nostalgia" boom was in full flower.
JUNE ALLYSON - During the first few years of her screen career (early to mid 40's) she had a youthful freshness about her that was somewhat appealing. As she aged (rather quickly) all that was left was a sexless, irritating harpy attempting to be cute. Unwatchable. DAN DAILEY - Unattractive & Unappealing.
Though married with children, Dean had a torrid affair with June Allyson, of all people, when he first went to Hollywood in the 1950s to make movies with Jerry Lewis. Hedda Hopper threatened to expose the affair in her column. Dean went back to his wife and kids.
June Lockhart was the lead in two successful TV series. She was in movies with Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Gary Cooper. She appeared in TV episodes in series as diverse as Perry Mason, Wagon Train, The Man from UNCLE, Happy Days, Bewitched, Roseanne and Grey's Anatomy.
She looked and sounded like no one else in movies, and is interesting to watch in all her films from the ‘50s. She had a particular brand of sophistication that went against that decade’s clichés about housewives, home and hearth. She was the anti-June Allyson and was a wonderful presence for that reason alone.