Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
22 Jan, 1913 (112 years old)
Death date
16 Jun, 1987

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 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

That's Entertainment, Part II
1080p
133 min 1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

Documentary Movie
The House Across the Bay
DVD
88 min 1940

The House Across the Bay

Drama Movie
Madam Satan
1080p
116 min 1930

Madam Satan

Romance Movie