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June Knight

Personal Information

Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Born / DiedJan 22, 1913 (Died at 74)
Zodiac Sign♒Aquarius
Place of BirthLos Angeles, California, USA
Career Span1930 – 1987
Known Credits12 Titles
Official Links
ActingPopularity Score 0.7

June Knight

Also known as:Margaret Rose Valliquietto
Total Works

12

12 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

6.3 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

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.

Signature Roles & Milestones

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.0
as (archive footage)

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 12 titles featuring June Knight

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.0

as (archive footage)

Madam Satan
5.9
Madam Satan
1930•movie

as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)

Broadway Melody of 1936
6.5

as Lillian Brent

The House Across the Bay
5.6

as Bebe

Gift of Gab
5.2
Gift of Gab
1934•movie

as Lottie Von Pepper

Wake Up and Dream
5.3
Wake Up and Dream
1934•movie

as Toby Brown

Cross Country Cruise
6.7

as Sue Fleming

Break the News
7.5
Break the News
1938•movie

as Grace Gatwick

Vacation from Love
10.0
Vacation from Love
1938•movie

as Flo Heath

Ladies Must Love
8.0
Ladies Must Love
1933•movie

as Jeannie Marlow

Redheads on Parade
9.0
Redheads on Parade
1935•movie

as Chorus Redhead (uncredited)

The Lilac Domino
7.0
The Lilac Domino
1937•movie

as Shari de Gonda