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June Allyson: Jimmy Stewart
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Actress June Allyson poses for in this Nov. 18, 1943 file photo. Allyson, the sunny, cracked-voiced "perfect wife" of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie heroes, died Saturday, July 8, 2006, at her home in Ojai, Calif. She was 88.
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The Stratton Story was to be Allyson's last major hit for some time. Her last MGM film under contract was an amusing, but minor, comedy with Van Johnson, Remains to be Seen (1953). But, as soon as she freelanced, Allyson was offered one of the best roles of her career, as sweetheart then wife to the bandleader in Anthony Mann's The Glenn Miller Story (1954). James Stewart had personally requested that she be given the role, and Allyson said later,
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Allyson, who died Monday at 88 in Ojai, Calif., of respiratory failure and acute bronchitis, played Stewart's supportive wife three times, two of them in popular biopics. She was ... teamed six times with then-superstar Van Johnson — back when he still oozed his boy-next-door image (which, by implication, told you what his girlfriend was like).
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