June Havoc
31 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 8, 1912
- Died
- Mar 28, 2010 (age 97)
- Place of birth
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as
- June Hovick · June Hovik · Ellen Evangeline Hovick
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.
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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.
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Known for
June Havoc: movies and TV shows
Acting (42)
- 1987 A Return to Salem's Lot
as Aunt Clara
- 1984
- 1980 Can't Stop the Music
as Helen Morell
- 1977 The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Hoover's Mother
- 1973 Nightside
as Vantura Davis
- 1971
- 1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
as Molly Jeffrys
- 1963
- 1963
- 1957 Mr. Broadway
as Trixie Friganza
- 1957
- 1956 Three for Jamie Dawn
as Lorrie Delacourt
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952 Lady Possessed
as Jean Wilson
- 1951 Follow the Sun
as Norma
- 1950
- 1950 Once a Thief
as Margie Foster
- 1950 Mother Didn't Tell Me
as Maggie Roberts
- 1950
- 1949 Chicago Deadline
as Leona
- 1949 The Story of Molly X
as Molly X
- 1949 Red, Hot and Blue
as Sandra
- 1948 When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Gussie Evans
- 1948
- 1948 The Iron Curtain
as Nina Karanova
- 1947 Intrigue
as Mme. Tamara Baranoff
- 1947 Gentleman's Agreement
as Elaine Wales
- 1945 Brewster's Millions
as Trixie Summers
- 1944 Casanova in Burlesque
as Lillian Colman
- 1944 Timber Queen
as Lil Boggs
- 1943 Hi Diddle Diddle
as Leslie Quayle
- 1943 No Time for Love
as Darlene
- 1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Beulah Clancy
- 1942
- 1942 My Sister Eileen
as Effie Shelton
- 1942 Powder Town
as Dolly Smythe
- 1942 Sing Your Worries Away
as Roxey Rochelle
- 1942 Four Jacks and a Jill
as Opal
- 1918 Hey There
as Child
- 1918 On the Jump
as Child
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2003
- 1997
- 1980
- 1971 Great Performances
1 episode
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
1 episode
- 1950 What's My Line?
2 episodes