June Havoc
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1912
- Died
- March 28, 2010 (aged 97)
- Birthplace
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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
Filmography
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie · as Self
Vaudeville
Movie · as Self
A Return to Salem's Lot
Movie · as Aunt Clara
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Thelma Vantay, Lady Abigail Austin · 1 ep
Can't Stop the Music
Movie · as Helen Morell
Magic Night
Movie · as Self
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie · as Hoover's Mother
Nightside
Movie · as Vantura Davis
McMillan & Wife
TV · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Movie · as Molly Jeffrys
Burke's Law
TV · as Miranda Forsythe · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Karen Thorne · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mr. Broadway
Movie · as Trixie Friganza
Panic!
TV · 1 ep
Three for Jamie Dawn
Movie · as Lorrie Delacourt
Matinee Theater
TV · 1 ep
Willy
TV · as Wilma 'Willy' Dodger · 25 eps
General Electric Theater
TV · as Margo · 1 ep
Lady Possessed
Movie · as Jean Wilson
Follow the Sun
Movie · as Norma
Once a Thief
Movie · as Margie Foster
Mother Didn't Tell Me
Movie · as Maggie Roberts
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Millie · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Betty MacDonald, Linda Duffield, Crystal Davis · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Chicago Deadline
Movie · as Leona
The Story of Molly X
Movie · as Molly X
Red, Hot and Blue
Movie · as Sandra
The Iron Curtain
Movie · as Nina Karanova
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Movie · as Gussie Evans
Studio One
TV · as Kitty Sharpe · 1 ep
Gentleman's Agreement
Movie · as Elaine Wales
Intrigue
Movie · as Mme. Tamara Baranoff
Brewster's Millions
Movie · as Trixie Summers
Timber Queen
Movie · as Lil Boggs
Casanova in Burlesque
Movie · as Lillian Colman
No Time for Love
Movie · as Darlene
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Movie · as Beulah Clancy
Hi Diddle Diddle
Movie · as Leslie Quayle
My Sister Eileen
Movie · as Effie Shelton
Powder Town
Movie · as Dolly Smythe
Sing Your Worries Away
Movie · as Roxey Rochelle
Four Jacks and a Jill
Movie · as Opal
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Movie
On the Jump
Movie · as Child
Hey There
Movie · as Child