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June Knight

June Knight
  • Name: June Knight
  • Birthday: 1913-01-22
  • Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Popularity: 0.021
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... Read More

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Title Release date
That's Entertainment, Part II   as  (archive footage) 1976-05-16
The House Across the Bay   as  Bebe 1940-03-01
Vacation from Love   as  Flo Heath 1938-09-29
Break the News   as  Grace Gatwick 1938-01-02
The Lilac Domino   as  Shari de Gonda 1937-03-31
Broadway Melody of 1936   as  Lillian Brent 1935-09-18
Redheads on Parade   as  Chorus Redhead (uncredited) 1935-09-07
Wake Up and Dream   as  Toby Brown 1934-10-01
Gift of Gab   as  Lottie Von Pepper 1934-09-01
Cross Country Cruise   as  Sue Fleming 1934-01-16
Take a Chance   as  Toni Ray 1933-11-25
Ladies Must Love   as  Jeannie Marlow 1933-09-25
Madam Satan   as  Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited) 1930-09-20