Don DeFore Overview:

Actor, Don DeFore, was born Donald John DeFore on Aug 25, 1913 in Cedar Rapids, IA. DeFore died at the age of 80 on Dec 22, 1993 in Santa Monica, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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“Romance On The High Seas” – Doris Day, Janis Paige, , Jack Carson

By Art on Apr 3, 2011 From Classic Cinema Gold

Romance and Laughter…under a Rio moon! ? Romance On The High Seas (Warner Brothers 1948) is a musical romantic comedy filmed in Technicolor starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, , and Doris Day. The movie also stars Oscar Lavent, S. Z. Sakall, and Leslie Brooks. It was nominated for tw... Read full article


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Had five children with Marion Holmes DeFore: Penny DeFore, David DeFore, Dawn DeFore, Ronnie DeFore, and Amy N. DeFore.

In 1949, Photoplay Magazine sent DeFore, actor Lon McCallister and a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe on a train trip to Warrensburg, New York to present Photoplay's "Dream Home" contest winner with the key to her new home. Surviving photos dated June 1, 1949 show Don DeFore playing cards with Marilyn on the train trip, and also in front of the home during the event. When Photoplay recruited the group for this, Marilyn Monroe had been in New York to promote her new film Love Happy (1949). It is believed that Don DeFore was in New York to shoot My Friend Irma (1949), the film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Briefly attended the University of Iowa with intentions of becoming a lawyer. "Less than one year there, I knew I'd made the wrong choice," he later said.

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