June Allyson was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss . From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. A later generation knew her as a spokesperson for Depend undergarments. Allyson was born Eleanor Geisman, nicknamed "Ella," in The Bronx, New York City. She was the daughter of Clara and Robert Geisman. She had a brother, Henry, who was two years... older. She claimed to be raised as a Roman Catholic but there is discrepancy relating to her early life as her studio biography was often the source of the confusion. Her paternal grandparents, Harry Geisman and Anna Hafner, were immigrants from Germany, although Allyson claimed her last name was originally "Van Geisman", and was of Dutch origin. Studio biographies listed her as "Jan Allyson" born to French-English parents. On her death her daughter said Allyson was born "Eleanor Geisman to a French mother and Dutch father.
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| Birthdate: | October 7, 1917 |
| Birthplace: | Bronx, New York |
| Date of death: | July 8, 2006 |
| Height: | 5' 1" |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| Also known as: | Ella Geisman, Eleanor Geisman, Junie |