June Knight
Born 1913 (age 74) · Los Angeles, California, USA
Appears in 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 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.

Filmography

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Madam Satan
5.9
Madam Satan
1930
as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
Broadway Melody of 1936
6.6
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935
as Lillian Brent
The House Across the Bay
5.6
The House Across the Bay
1940
as Bebe
Wake Up and Dream
5.3
Wake Up and Dream
1934
as Toby Brown
Cross Country Cruise
6.7
Cross Country Cruise
1934
as Sue Fleming
Gift of Gab
5.0
Gift of Gab
1934
as Lottie Von Pepper
Break the News
7.5
Break the News
1938
as Grace Gatwick
5.5
Take a Chance
1933
as Toni Ray
Vacation from Love
10.0
Vacation from Love
1938
as Flo Heath
Ladies Must Love
8.0
Ladies Must Love
1933
as Jeannie Marlow
Redheads on Parade
9.0
Redheads on Parade
1935
as Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
The Lilac Domino
7.0
The Lilac Domino
1937
as Shari de Gonda