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    June Knight

    1913-01-22 (111 years old) in 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.

    Movies

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    That's Entertainment, Part II
    68 %|May 16, 1976
    Documentary, Music
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    The House Across the Bay
    53 %|Mar 1, 1940
    Drama
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    Vacation from Love
    0 %|Sep 29, 1938
    Comedy
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    Break the News
    60 %|Jan 2, 1938
    Music, Comedy
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    The Lilac Domino
    0 %|Mar 31, 1937
    Music, Romance
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    Broadway Melody of 1936
    64 %|Sep 18, 1935
    Music, Comedy
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    Redheads on Parade
    0 %|Sep 7, 1935
    Music
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    Wake Up and Dream
    40 %|Oct 1, 1934
    Drama
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    Gift of Gab
    10 %|Sep 1, 1934
    Music, Comedy
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    Cross Country Cruise
    60 %|Jan 16, 1934
    Drama, Adventure, Comedy
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    Take a Chance
    40 %|Nov 25, 1933
    Music, Comedy
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    Ladies Must Love
    0 %|Sep 25, 1933
    Romance, Comedy
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    Madam Satan
    58 %|Sep 20, 1930
    Romance, Music, Comedy

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