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June Knight

June Knight

Acting1913Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

June Knight (born Margaret Rose Valliquietto) was an American Broadway and film actress and singer. Due to infantile paralysis, she was unable to walk until she was five years old, but just five years later, she started to perform songs and dance publicly.

Dancer John Holland changed her name to June Knight when she became his partner, assigning her the same name as that of his previous partner. That change led to a court case in 1940, when the actress June Knight filed suit against the original dancer with that name. The actress said that she had made the name famous and that the dancer had previously agreed to stop using that name.

At age 19, she appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha!. She was featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance, Jubilee (where she introduced the Cole Porter classic "Begin the Beguine"), The Would-Be Gentleman (her only non-musical) and Sweethearts.

She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in 12 films from 1930 to 1940, most notably in Broadway Melody of 1936, in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor.

Acting History

1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1938
Break the News
as Grace Gatwick
Vacation from Love
as Flo Heath
1937
The Lilac Domino
as Shari de Gonda
1935
Broadway Melody of 1936
as Lillian Brent
Redheads on Parade
as Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
1934
Cross Country Cruise
as Sue Fleming
Gift of Gab
as Lottie Von Pepper
Wake Up and Dream
as Toby Brown
1933
Take a Chance
as Toni Ray
Ladies Must Love
as Jeannie Marlow
1930
Madam Satan
as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/22/1913
Day of Death
6/16/1987
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA