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June Allyson: Roles
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Allyson then played her most dramatic role to date, as a neurotic girl with a fixation on her dead father, in The Secret Heart (1946). Claudette Colbert was top-billed as her mother, and Allyson later expressed her gratitude for the help and encouragement shown her by the actress. She then teamed again with Van Johnson in High Barbaree (1947), a sentimental tale in which a downed flier, adrift with another crew member, tells the story of his life, and the mythical paradise that he and his sweetheart had dreamed of.
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June learned firsthand the embarrassment and despair that incontinence can bring during her many years as a caregiver for her mother. June was advertising spokesperson for Kimberly-Clark's Depend absorbent products from 1995-1999 and in that role did more than any other public figure to encourage and persuade people with incontinence to lead fuller, more active lives. In 1988 she was appointed by President Reagan to the Federal Council on Aging and continued for several years to be an outspoken advocate on programs for Seniors. She worked continuously and tirelessly to "normalize" and raise public awareness about incontinence.
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[One] man who played an important role in her career was one of MGM's top musical producers, Joe Pasternak, who first encountered Allyson when he knocked her over when going through the door to the studio restaurant. He later described himself as "fetched, entranced, charmed", and immediately determined to put her in a film.
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After several years in many chorus lines, Allyson graduated to small parts, including a bit she did with Ethel Merman in Cole Porter's "Panama Hattie." In that same musical, Allyson was understudy to Betty Hutton in the comic role of Florrie and, in a classic Broadway fantasy, Allyson stepped in for Hutton when the star got the measles.
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