June Knight

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

13

Gender

Female

Birthday

1913-01-22

Deathday

1987-06-16 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

June Knight

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.

Known For

Broadway Melody of 1936
6.4%

Broadway Melody of 1936

Sep 18, 1935

Madam Satan
5.9%

Madam Satan

Sep 20, 1930

Wake Up and Dream
4.0%

Wake Up and Dream

Oct 1, 1934

Cross Country Cruise
6.0%

Cross Country Cruise

Jan 16, 1934

Break the News
6.0%

Break the News

Jan 2, 1938

Gift of Gab
1.0%

Gift of Gab

Sep 1, 1934

TaC
4.0%

Take a Chance

Nov 25, 1933

Vacation from Love
0.0%

Vacation from Love

Sep 29, 1938

Ladies Must Love
0.0%

Ladies Must Love

Sep 25, 1933

Redheads on Parade
0.0%

Redheads on Parade

Sep 7, 1935

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Acting

1976
That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1940
The House Across the Bay as Bebe
1938
Vacation from Love as Flo Heath
1938
Break the News as Grace Gatwick
1937
The Lilac Domino as Shari de Gonda
1935
Broadway Melody of 1936 as Lillian Brent
1935
Redheads on Parade as Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
1934
Wake Up and Dream as Toby Brown
1934
Gift of Gab as Lottie Von Pepper
1934
Cross Country Cruise as Sue Fleming
1933
Take a Chance as Toni Ray
1933
Ladies Must Love as Jeannie Marlow
1930
Madam Satan as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
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