6.6
Avg Rating
June Havoc (born Ellen June Evangeline Hovick), was a Canadian American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director.
1961
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.
Gender
Female
Birthday
November 8, 1912
Died
March 28, 2010
Birthplace
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also Known As
Chicago Deadline
1949
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977
No Time for Love
1943
Once a Thief
1950
The Story of Molly X
1949
Mr. Broadway
1957
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
Follow the Sun
1951
Hi Diddle Diddle
1943
Nightside
1973
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
Can't Stop the Music
1980
Casanova in Burlesque
1944
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Intrigue
1947
Timber Queen
1944
Hey There
1918
Mother Didn't Tell Me
1950
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
Brewster's Millions
1945
+ 13 more movies
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Great Performances
1971
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Matinee Theater
1955
Studio One
1948
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
What's My Line?
1950
Burke's Law
1963
The Outer Limits
1963
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
McMillan & Wife
1971
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Panic!
1957
General Electric Theater
1953
Willy
1954