Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
13
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 22, 1913 ( 74 years old )
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
June Knight
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
1935-09-18The House Across the Bay
1940-03-01Vacation from Love
1938-09-29Wake Up and Dream
1934-10-01Break the News
1938-01-02Cross Country Cruise
1934-01-16Gift of Gab
1934-09-01Madam Satan
1930-09-20Take a Chance
1933-11-25Ladies Must Love
1933-09-25