1. June Havoc acknowledged in her later years that 1912 was likely the correct year.
20 Facts About June Havoc
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Baby June Havoc 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.
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Weeks later after performing at the Jayhawk Theatre in Topeka, Kansas, on December 29,1928, June Havoc's mother, Rose, reported Reed to the Topeka Police, and he was arrested.
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In 1936, June Havoc got her first part on Broadway in the Sigmund Romberg operetta Forbidden Melody.
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June Havoc made her first film in 1942, and she began to alternate film roles with returns to the Broadway stage.
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From 1942 to 1944, June Havoc appeared in 11 films, including My Sister Eileen with Rosalind Russell, and No Time for Love with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
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In 1945, June Havoc was featured in the film Brewster's Millions, and starred in The Ryan Girl on Broadway.
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In Hollywood, June Havoc played the second female lead for three of the most popular musical movie stars in the 1940s and early 1950s: Alice Faye in Hello, Frisco, Hello with John Payne ; Betty Grable in When My Baby Smiles at Me with Dan Dailey ; and Betty Hutton in Red, Hot, and Blue with Victor Mature.
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In 1966, June Havoc appeared as Millicent Jordan in an all-star revival of Dinner at Eight on Broadway, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Arlene Francis, Darren McGavin and Pamela Tiffin.
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June Havoc continued in the role until the show closed after more than four years on January 2,1983.
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June Havoc performed intermittently on the radio in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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June Havoc's only child was a daughter, April Rose Hyde, born April 2,1932.
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In 1947, June Havoc was a member of the Committee for the First Amendment, founded by Philip Dunne, Myrna Loy, John Huston and William Wyler, to support freedom of speech in the film industry during the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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In 1967, June Havoc founded Youthbridge, a program that provided theatrical training to adolescents, primarily African American adolescents, at the Bridgeport, Connecticut YWCA.
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June Havoc supported Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.
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June Havoc died at her home in Stamford, Connecticut, on March 28,2010, from unspecified natural causes.
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June Havoc was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1964 for Marathon '33, which she wrote.
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In 1971, June Havoc received a Humanitarian Award from Bridgeport University, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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In 2000, June Havoc was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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The June Havoc Theatre, housed at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City, was named for her in 2003.