Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/22/1913
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
Margaret Rose Valliquietto
June Knight
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 ha...
Known For
Broadway Melody of 1936
as Lillian Brent
Madam Satan
as Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
The House Across the Bay
as Bebe
Break the News
as Grace Gatwick
Gift of Gab
as Lottie Von Pepper
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Vacation from Love
as Flo Heath
Ladies Must Love
as Jeannie Marlow
Redheads on Parade
as Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
Wake Up and Dream
as Toby Brown
The Lilac Domino
as Shari de Gonda
Cross Country Cruise
as Sue Fleming