On this date, November 8th, in 1912, June Havoc was born. - TopicsExpress



          

On this date, November 8th, in 1912, June Havoc was born. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed, June Havoc was known for her work in the 1940 Broadway production of Pal Joey, for the feature film Gentlemans Agreement (1947) and for her connection with Gypsy, the 1959 Broadway musical (directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins). Her childhood as Baby June, vaudeville headliner, was immortalized in the musical in which both June and her older sister, Louise - who would become burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee - were driven by the ultimate stage mother, Rose Hovick, to become stars. She began performing in silent film shorts when she was just two years old. By age five, she was making $1,500 per week in vaudeville revues. She married her first of three husbands at age 13, a fellow performer, Bobby Reed. After she ran off, Rose had Reed arrested, and attempted to shoot him when he turned up at the police station. The gun failed to go off, and Reed was freed. When her vaudeville work eventually ended, she earned money in dance marathons. In 1945, when Jerome Robbins choreographed ‘Billion Dollar Baby,’ the 1920s musical set during the Prohibition, he hired June as “Technical advisor on dance marathons.” Ms. Havoc made it to Broadway in 1936 in Forbidden Melody, and after her success in Pal Joey Hollywood finally took notice and she managed to break into films, including Four Jacks and a Jill (1941), Sing Your Worries Away, and My Sister Eileen (1942). Ms. Havoc’s feature film work began to peter out in the mid-1950s and it was nearly 30 years before she returned to the big screen with a small role in the Village People turkey, Cant Stop the Music (1980). Enjoy this brief clip of June Havoc, appearing as Baby June, in the 1918 Harold Lloyd film, On the Jump... https://youtube/watch?v=6dFFFfPa0Mo
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:06:57 +0000

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