June Knight
Born
January 22, 1913
Died
June 16, 1987 (74 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
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
(archive footage)
1976

The House Across the Bay
Bebe
1940

Vacation from Love
Flo Heath
1938

Break the News
Grace Gatwick
1938

The Lilac Domino
Shari de Gonda
1937

Broadway Melody of 1936
Lillian Brent
1935

Redheads on Parade
Chorus Redhead (uncredited)
1935

Wake Up and Dream
Toby Brown
1934

Gift of Gab
Lottie Von Pepper
1934

Cross Country Cruise
Sue Fleming
1934
Take a Chance
Toni Ray
1933

Ladies Must Love
Jeannie Marlow
1933

Madam Satan
Zeppelin Reveler (uncredited)
1930