June Knight
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| Born | Margaret Rose Valliquietto January 22, 1913 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 16, 1987 (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930–1947 |
June Knight (January 22, 1913 – June 16, 1987) was an American Broadway and film actress.
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.
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.
[edit] External links
- June Knight at the Internet Broadway Database
- June Knight at the Internet Movie Database
- Photographs of June Knight
- June Knight at Find a Grave
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- Actors from California
- American film actors
- American musical theatre actors
- Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
- People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
- Deaths from stroke
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- 1913 births
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