The Nun Next Door

June Haver is a pretty blonde who, at 26, has succeeded in Hollywood. In her ten years on the lot, she has danced and smiled her way up from a $75-a-week job to a $3,500-a-week contract with 20th Century-Fox (for such pictures as Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Oh, You Beautiful Doll). In spite of cinema's glamour treatment, she is also an unassuming and likable woman--as one agent put it, "one of the few actresses in town an agent would say nice things about."

Although raised in a Protestant family, June became a Roman Catholic at 18, and she took her new faith seriously. She was active in charity work, made generous gifts to Catholic organizations. Her personal life was not too happy. Her Catholic marriage to Trumpeter Jimmy Zito in 1947 ended after a few months. Later, when she fell in love with Dr. John Duzik, a Beverly Hills dentist, the church refused an annulment of the first marriage. In 1949, Dr. Duzik died in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, a Catholic hospital run by the Sisters of Charity.

After Dr. Duzik's death, Actress Haver turned more of her energies to charity work. In particular, she liked to entertain the patients at St. John's and to talk with the Sisters of Charity who nursed them.

June Haver finished work on her latest picture, The Girl Next Door, in December. Last week she announced that she would make no more. After Hollywood goodbyes, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kans., the order that staffs St. John's Hospital. There she hopes to stay for two years, until she may become a nun.

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