So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

like someone who has come to inhabit the very myths June Allyson helped to create on the screen. She said June Allyson had been raised as a Roman Catholic[citation needed] but there is discrepancy relating to her early life and her studio biography was often the source of the confusion. In 1993 her name also made headlines when actor-turned-agent Marty Ingels publicly charged Allyson with not paying his large commission on the earlier deal on incontinence product advertising.

June Allyson (October 7 1917 – July 8 2006) was an American stage film and television actress. She signed with MGM in 1943 and rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor.