LYCOS RETRIEVER 
June Allyson: Jo March
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Allyson's most severe change of pace came in The Shrike (1955), Jose Ferrer's film version of the Joseph A. Kramm drama in which he had starred on-stage. She played the title character, a domineering wife who honestly believes her smothering ways are best for her husband. In a brave bit of acting, she made her "perfect wife" persona work to her advantage in playing this steel-willed control freak.
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"She was a joy to know," actress Ann Rutherford, who met Allyson at MGM in the 1940s, said Monday. "She was a wonderful actress and just confronted her life with vast enthusiasm."
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Synopsis: Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does her usual as McConnell's anxious, waiting-nervously-at-home wife. Assigned to the medical corps during WWII, McConnell takes private flying lessons so that he'll qualify forRead More
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