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June Havoc

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
53

Gender
Female

Birthday
November 8, 1912 (113 years old)

Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

June Havoc

Biography

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.

Known For

Acting

2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were Thereas Self
1997Vaudevilleas Self
1987A Return to Salem's Lotas Aunt Clara
1984Murder, She Wroteas Lady Abigail Austin
1984Murder, She Wroteas Thelma Vantay
1980Can't Stop the Musicas Helen Morell
1980Magic Nightas Self
1977The Private Files of J. Edgar Hooveras Hoover's Mother
1973Nightsideas Vantura Davis
1971McMillan & Wifeas
1971Great Performancesas Self
1970The Boy Who Stole the Elephantas Molly Jeffrys
1963Burke's Lawas Miranda Forsythe
1963The Outer Limitsas Karen Thorne
1962The Merv Griffin Showas Self
1961The Mike Douglas Showas Self
1957Mr. Broadwayas
1957Panic!as
1956Three for Jamie Dawnas Lorrie Delacourt
1955Matinee Theateras
1954Willyas Wilma 'Willy' Dodger
1953General Electric Theateras Margo
1952Lady Possessedas Jean Wilson
1951Follow the Sunas Norma
1950Lux Video Theatreas Millie
1950The Colgate Comedy Houras Self
1950Once a Thiefas Margie Foster
1950Mother Didn't Tell Meas Maggie Roberts
1950What's My Line?as Self
1950Robert Montgomery Presentsas Betty MacDonald
1950Robert Montgomery Presentsas Crystal Davis
1950Robert Montgomery Presentsas Linda Duffield
1949Chicago Deadlineas Leona
1949The Story of Molly Xas Molly X
1949Red, Hot and Blueas Sandra
1948When My Baby Smiles at Meas Gussie Evans
1948Studio Oneas Kitty Sharpe
1948The Iron Curtainas Nina Karanova
1947Intrigueas Mme. Tamara Baranoff
1947Gentleman's Agreementas Elaine Wales
1945Brewster's Millionsas Trixie Summers
1944Casanova in Burlesqueas Lillian Colman
1944Timber Queenas Lil Boggs
1943Hi Diddle Diddleas Leslie Quayle
1943No Time for Loveas Darlene
1943Hello, Frisco, Helloas Beulah Clancy
1942Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6as
1942My Sister Eileenas Effie Shelton
1942Powder Townas Dolly Smythe
1942Sing Your Worries Awayas Roxey Rochelle
1942Four Jacks and a Jillas Opal
1918Hey Thereas Child
1918On the Jumpas Child

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