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June Knight is a Actor American born on 22 january 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
June Knight (January 22, 1913 – June 16, 1987) was an American Broadway and film actress.
June Knight was born in Los Angeles in 1913.
During the first years of her life, she was in very poor health. She suffered from tuberculosis when she was 4 years old and Doctors told her parents that there was a big chance that she would never live to maturity.
Because of infantile Paralysis,she couldn't walk till she was five years old.
Later she had double pneumonia,Scarlet fever,whooping cough,chicken pox and masloiditis.
She started to dance to develop her leg muscles.
When she was ten years old,she started to sing and dance in public.
Aged 19, she appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha! (1932). She would be featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance (1932), Jubilee (1935) (where she introduced the Cole Porter classic "Begin the Beguine"), The Would-Be Gentleman (1946) (her only non-musical) and Sweethearts (1947).
She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in twelve movies from 1930 to 1940, most notably in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor.
In 1935 June Knight and her maid were bound and gagged by two intruders in her apartment. The two thieves stole some expensive jewels from her.
In 1944 she was in Roosevelt Hospital,New York,for the removal of a benign tumor.
June Knight married several times,husbands included : Vice President of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Carl B. Squier, Texan oilman Arthur A. Cameron, Harry Packer, drug firm official and New York stock exchange member,Paul S. Ames.
The marriage to Paul Ames lasted only thirteen days.
She died in 1987, at 74, from complications from a stroke, and was interred in Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, June Knight has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Birth name Margaret Rose Valliquietto
Nationality USA
Birth 22 january 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 16 june 1987 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 january 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 16 june 1987 (at 74 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
June Knight was born in Los Angeles in 1913.
During the first years of her life, she was in very poor health. She suffered from tuberculosis when she was 4 years old and Doctors told her parents that there was a big chance that she would never live to maturity.
Because of infantile Paralysis,she couldn't walk till she was five years old.
Later she had double pneumonia,Scarlet fever,whooping cough,chicken pox and masloiditis.
She started to dance to develop her leg muscles.
When she was ten years old,she started to sing and dance in public.
Aged 19, she appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha! (1932). She would be featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance (1932), Jubilee (1935) (where she introduced the Cole Porter classic "Begin the Beguine"), The Would-Be Gentleman (1946) (her only non-musical) and Sweethearts (1947).
She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in twelve movies from 1930 to 1940, most notably in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor.
In 1935 June Knight and her maid were bound and gagged by two intruders in her apartment. The two thieves stole some expensive jewels from her.
In 1944 she was in Roosevelt Hospital,New York,for the removal of a benign tumor.
June Knight married several times,husbands included : Vice President of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Carl B. Squier, Texan oilman Arthur A. Cameron, Harry Packer, drug firm official and New York stock exchange member,Paul S. Ames.
The marriage to Paul Ames lasted only thirteen days.
She died in 1987, at 74, from complications from a stroke, and was interred in Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, June Knight has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6247 Hollywood Boulevard.
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, 2h13Directed by Gene Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lew Ayres, Stan Laurel
Roles (archive footage)
Rating72%
Gene Kelly et Fred Astaire présentent les meilleurs moments des films de la MGM.
The House Across the Bay (1940)
, 1h28Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Pidgeon, Gladys George, June Knight
Roles Bebe
Rating64%
Un concepteur d'avions tombe pour la femme d'un gangster emprisonné.
Break the News (1938)
Directed by René Clair
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Buchanan, Maurice Chevalier, June Knight, Garry Marsh, Marta Labarr, Joss Ambler
Roles Grace Gatwick
Rating62%
Vacation from Love (1938)
, 1h6Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen, June Knight, Edward Brophy, Andrew Tombes
Roles Flo Heath
Rating57%
The Lilac Domino (1937)
, 1h19Directed by Friedrich Zelnik
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors June Knight, Fred Emney, S.Z. Sakall, Athene Seyler, Richard Dolman, Cameron Hall
Roles Shari de Gonda
Rating62%
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
, 1h41Directed by Roy Del Ruth, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel, Frances Langford, Buddy Ebsen
Roles Lillian Brent
Rating66%
Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell) tries to convince her high school sweetheart, Broadway producer Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor), to give her a chance to star in his new musical, but he's too busy with the rich widow (June Knight) backing his show. Irene tries to show Gordon that she has the talent to succeed, but he won't hire her. Things become complicated when she begins impersonating a French dancer, who was actually the invention of a gossip columnist (Jack Benny).
Redheads on Parade (1935)
, 1h18Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors John Boles, Dixie Lee, Jack Haley, Raymond Walburn, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Herman Bing
Roles Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
Rating69%
Gift of Gab (1934)
, 1h10Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Alice White, Paul Lukas
Roles Lottie Von Pepper
Rating49%
Take a Chance (1933)
, 1h22Directed by Monte Brice
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors James Dunn, June Knight, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, Lilian Bond, Dorothy Lee
Roles Toni Ray
Rating63%
Madam Satan (1930)
, 1h56Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films
Actors Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young, Boyd Irwin, Wilfred Lucas
Roles Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
Rating62%
Socialite Angela Brooks (Kay Johnson) discovers that her husband Bob (Reginald Denny) is cheating on her with Trixie (Lillian Roth).