Co-starred with Betty Grable in The Dolly Sisters (1945) which is the only musical the two made together, even though Haver was nicknamed "the pocket Grable".
Made her musical debut playing the piano at age 7 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. By age 11 she was appearing on local radio as a writer, emcee and star.
In 1996 she sold her and her late husband`s 1,500-acre Healdsburg ranch to the Gallo family. She maintained a home in Brentwood. She died in her Brentwood estate in 2005.
Nicknamed the "pocket Grable," she was making $3,500 a week at 20th Century Fox when she said goodbye to it all and became a novice nun in the Sisters of Charity convent.