June Havoc (born Ellen June Evangeline Hovick), was a Canadian American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director.
Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood, and stage-directed, both on and off-Broadway. She last appeared on television in 1990 in a story arc on the soap opera General Hospital. Her elder sister Louise gravitated to burlesque and became the well-known striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee.
Following their parents’ divorce, the two sisters earned the family’s income by appearing in vaudeville, where June’s talent often overshadowed Louise’s. Baby June got an audition with Alexander Pantages, who had come to Seattle, Washington in 1902 to build theaters up and down the west coast of the United States. Soon, she was launched in vaudeville and also appeared in Hollywood movies. She could not speak until the age of three, but the films were all silent. She would cry for the cameras when her mother told her that the family’s dog had died.
In December 1928, Havoc, in an effort to escape her overbearing mother, eloped with Bobby Reed, a boy in the vaudeville act. Weeks later after performing at the Jayhawk Theatre in Topeka, Kansas, Rose reported Reed to the Topeka Police, and he was arrested. Rose had a concealed gun on her when she met Bobby at the police station. She pulled the trigger, but the safety was on. She then physically attacked her soon-to-be new son-in-law, and the police had to pry her off the hapless Reed. June soon married him, leaving both her family and the act. The marriage did not last, but the two remained on friendly terms. June’s only child was a daughter, born April Rose Hyde. A marriage license, dated November 30, 1928 for Ellen Hovick and Weldon Hyde, would seem to indicate that Bobby Reed’s real name was Weldon Hyde. April became an actress in the 1950s known as April Kent. She predeceased her mother, dying in Paris in 1998.
June Havoc Biography / Wiki
| Name | June Havoc |
| Also Know | June Hovick, June Hovik |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1912-11-08 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 97 |
| Deathday | 2010-03-28 |
June Havoc Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Story of Molly X | Molly X | 1949-11-01 | Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start … |
| Intrigue | Mme. Tamara Baranoff | 1947-12-06 | Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai’s postwar black market… |
| Once a Thief | Margie Foster | 1950-07-07 | A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles whe… |
| Sing Your Worries Away | Roxey Rochelle | 1942-03-06 | This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie … |
| Lady Possessed | Jean Wilson | 1952-01-26 | A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, th… |
| Casanova in Burlesque | Lillian Colman | 1944-02-19 | A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic…. |
| The Iron Curtain | Nina Karanova | 1948-06-16 | The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to t… |
| Chicago Deadline | Leona | 1949-11-03 | On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but c… |
| Brewster’s Millions | Trixie Summers | 1945-04-07 | Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relat… |
| Powder Town | Dolly Smythe | 1942-06-07 | Director Rowland V. Lee’s wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O’Brien… |
| Mother Didn’t Tell Me | Maggie Roberts | 1950-03-03 | Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor’s wives that she… |
| Four Jacks and a Jill | Opal | 1942-01-23 | Karanina “Nina” Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega… |
| Timber Queen | Lil Boggs | 1944-01-13 | Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited i… |
| When My Baby Smiles at Me | 1948-11-10 | Bonny Kane and ‘Skid’ Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on… | |
| Red Hot and Blue | Sandra | 1949-09-05 | A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting…. |
| Follow the Sun | Norma | 1951-05-22 | A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf’s greatest players…. |
| Nightside | Vantura Davis | 1973-04-05 | The story of three people – a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner – whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and… |
| Three for Jamie Dawn | Lorrie Delacourt | 1956-07-08 | An unscrupulous attorney attempts to rig the jury vote in a murder trial. Released in 1956…. |
| No Time for Love | Darlene | 1943-01-01 | Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river…. |
| Gentleman’s Agreement | Elaine Wales | 1947-11-11 | A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism…. |
| Hello, Frisco, Hello | Beulah Clancy | 1943-03-26 | In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his tr… |
| On the Jump | Child | 1918-03-31 | On the Jump is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd…. |
| Hi Diddle Diddle | Leslie Quayle | 1943-08-02 | When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things… |
| A Return to Salem’s Lot | Clara | 1987-05-01 | Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem’s Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the i… |
| The Boy Who Stole the Elephant | Molly Jeffrys | 1970-09-20 | A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, wh… |
| My Sister Eileen | Effie Shelton | 1942-09-24 | Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen … |
| Can’t Stop the Music | Helen Morell | 1980-06-20 | A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali…. |
| The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Hoover’s Mother | 1977-12-01 | The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen… |
| Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | 1942-10-05 | Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, “The White House of Hollywood.”… | |
| Hey There | Child | 1918-04-28 | In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he’s just met at a snack bar. He’s retrieved a… |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-01-01 | Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America’s most celebrated indigenous art form. Award… |
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