
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.
Filmography (13 titles)
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) · 1976
5.6MovieThe House Across the Bay
Bebe · 1940
10.0MovieVacation from Love
Flo Heath · 1938
7.5MovieBreak the News
Grace Gatwick · 1938
7.0MovieThe Lilac Domino
Shari de Gonda · 1937
6.5MovieBroadway Melody of 1936
Lillian Brent · 1935
9.0MovieRedheads on Parade
Chorus Redhead (uncredited) · 1935
5.3MovieWake Up and Dream
Toby Brown · 1934
5.0MovieGift of Gab
Lottie Von Pepper · 1934
6.7MovieCross Country Cruise
Sue Fleming · 1934
Take a Chance
Toni Ray · 1933
8.0MovieLadies Must Love
Jeannie Marlow · 1933
5.9MovieMadam Satan
Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited) · 1930