June Knight

Who was June Knight?

June Knight was an American Broadway and film actress.

June Knight was born in Los Angeles in 1913.

During the first years of her life, she was in very poor health. She suffered from tuberculosis when she was 4 years old and Doctors told her parents that there was a big chance that she would never live to maturity.

Because of infantile Paralysis,she couldn't walk till she was five years old. Later she had double pneumonia,Scarlet fever,whooping cough,chicken pox and masloiditis.

She started to dance to develop her leg muscles. When she was ten years old,she started to sing and dance in public.

Aged 19, she appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha!. She would be featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance, Jubilee, The Would-Be Gentleman and Sweethearts.

She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in twelve movies 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.

In 1935 June Knight and her maid were bound and gagged by two intruders in her apartment.The two thiefs stole some expensive jewels from her.