June Knight

Acting

June Knight

Born — Died

1913-01-22 — 1987-06-16

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

13 titles

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 s…

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 11 titles

Madam Satan poster
6.0

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

Madam Satan

1930

Broadway Melody of 1936 poster
6.5

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!

Broadway Melody of 1936

1935

Vacation from Love poster
10.0

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

Vacation from Love

1938

Gift of Gab poster
5.2

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Gift of Gab

1934

Redheads on Parade poster
9.0

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.

Redheads on Parade

1935

Cross Country Cruise poster
6.7

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.

Cross Country Cruise

1934

Wake Up and Dream poster
5.3

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

Wake Up and Dream

1934

No artwork available
5.5

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

Take a Chance

1933

Ladies Must Love poster
8.0

Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.

Ladies Must Love

1933

The Lilac Domino poster
7.0

In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.

The Lilac Domino

1937

Break the News poster
7.5

Two small-time song-and-dance men come up with what they believe is a surefire publicity stunt, guaranteed to keep their names in the public eye--one of them will "disappear" in what looks like a murder, and the other will be convicted of the crime. Then the "dead man" will suddenly show up at his partner's murder trial. Unfortunately, things don't quite go as planned. For one thing, no one seems to much care that the "dead man" is missing, and for another thing he's mistaken for the leader of a Balkan revolutionary group and is kidnapped by the other side.

Break the News

1938