LOS ANGELES – June Haver (search), the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable (search) but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died.

June Haver, a singer and actress once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be “the next Betty Grable” but who left acting to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, has died.

June Haver, a singer and actress once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be “the next Betty Grable” but who left acting to join a convent and later married actor Fred MacMurray, has died.

LOS ANGELES -- June Haver, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died. She was 79. Haver ...