Picture Perfect Wednesday: It's June

Let's spend a moment with another June in June!

Born into a theater family in 1912, June Havoc began her showbusiness career on the road, as a child performer with her sister Gypsy Lee Rose in vaudeville acts. As the sisters grew up, Rose embarked on a path that brought her lasting fame as she lifted stripping to an art-form, while Havoc continued down the more respectable road of musical theater and eventually film and television acting.

Havoc's first film appearance as an adult was in "Four Jacks and a Jill" (1942) and for the first few years she appeared in musical comedies. However, she soon transitioned to parts, big and small, in dramas and mysteries. Her biggest and best-remembered roles were her starring turns in a handful of film noir pictures, such as "Chicago Deadline" (1949), "The Story of Molly X" (1949), and "Once a Thief" (1950).




Havoc was long estranged from her more famous sister, who, frankly was famous more for just being famous than for her talent. They had fallen out as teens, but Havoc cut all contact after being angered at Rose's portrayal of her in the best-selling memoir, "Gypsy" (1957), and over the Baby June character in the hit musical based on it. The sisters did not patch up their differences until shortly before Rose passed away from lung cancer in 1970.

Havoc retired from acting at the age of 75, after the second of two guest-starring turns on the television series "Murder, She Wrote." She passed away on March 28, 2010.