June Allyson, a sweetheart star died

ACTRESS June Allyson, famed for her "perfect wife" roles, has died aged 88. She had suffered a long illness and her husband of nearly 30 years, David Ashrow, was at her side when she died at home in Ojai, California, on Saturday. She died of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis.
Allyson made her feature film debut in the 1943 big-screen version of the Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward," reprising the ingenue role she played two years earlier on stage in a production choreographed by Gene Kelly.

In Two Girls and a Sailor (1944), her winsome beauty and bright personality connected with US servicemen. She starred in Music for Millions; The Sailor Takes a Wife, Two Girls from Boston and Good News.

She appeared opposite Johnson in several films, and was Stewart's wife in The Stratton Story, The Glenn Miller Story and Strategic Air Command.
In the late '50s, she moved on to TV roles, including in Love Boat.

She won a Golden Globe Award for her 1951 role in "Too Young to Kiss," where she played a talented pianist who poses as a child prodigy to gain an audition for a music impresario who is holding tryouts for a kids' concert tour.

Allyson expressed surprise in a 1986 interview that she had ever become a movie star.