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June Havoc was a leading star on the vaudeville stage, billed as Baby June while performing as a child. She later had a long career in Hollywood, appearing in films and television.

She was born Ellen Evangeline Hovick in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on November 8, 1912. She and her older sister, Louise, were trained as performers from an early age by their overbearing stage mother, Rose Thompson Hovick. June abandoned the act as a teenager, running off to get married. Louise achieved fame on the burlesque circuit as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

June resumed her acting career on stage in the late 1930s, and was soon appearing in films. She starred with Victor McLaglen in the light sci-fi film Powder Town in 1942. She also starred in the 1951 psychological thriller Lady Possessed with James Mason.

She was displeased with the way she was depicted in her sister’s 1957 memoir Gypsy, which also...

June Havoc Dies For the most part, both her film roles and performances were negligible. Although she played leads in minor fare such as Intrigue (1947), with George Raft, and Lady Possessed (1952), with James Mason, her best remembered role is that of Gregory Peck’s Jewish secretary who tries to pass for a Gentile in Elia Kazan’s Academy Award-winning drama Gentleman’s Agreement (1947). June Havoc was much more successful onstage. Among her most important Broadway productions were Cole Porter’s Mexican Hayride (1944); Sadie Thompson (also 1944), replacing Ethel Merman in this musical based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain"; That Ryan Girl (1945), in the title role; and a revival of Dinner at Eight [...]...