June Caprice

June Caprice, born Helen Elizabeth Lawson; November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936, was an American silent film actress.

Early life and career

Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson in Arlington, Massachusetts, Caprice was educated in Boston.

She began her acting career in live theatre and in 1916 signed with the Fox Film Corporation. In 1916 William Fox searched to find a "second Mary Pickford." By the summer of that year he believed he had located the woman he predicted would be the best known female on the screen within six months time. The 1916 press release claimed both that she was a 17-year-old teenager, and in the same press release "just a little over 17 years of age." Her obituary in 1936 listed her age as 40, making her about 20 years of age at her discovery.

Caprice's screen debut came in Caprice of the Mountains (1916).

Retirement She left the film business to begin a family, giving birth to a daughter June Elizabeth Millarde in 1922. It is believed she returned to working on stage and modeling, appearing on 1920s Coca-Cola company calendars holding a fountain glass of Coke. In 1931 her husband died at the age of forty-six. Caprice died five years later from a heart attack in Los Angeles. She had been suffering from cancer. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Caprice's daughter was fourteen years old when orphaned and was raised by her grandparents on Long Island, New York. June Millarde became a cover girl known as Toni Seven. She was the heiress to an estimated $3,000,000 fortune.

Filmography +Key Denotes a lost or presumed lost film.

+ Film credits of June CapriceYearTitleRoleStudio/Distributor 1916 The Ragged Princess Alicia JonesFox Film 1916 Caprice of the Mountains Caprice TalbertFox Film 1916 Little Miss Happiness Lucy WhiteFox Film 1916 The Mischief Maker Effie MarchandFox Film 1917 The Small Town Girl JuneFox Film 1917 A Child of the Wild June GriestFox Film 1917 Patsy Patsy PrimFox Film 1917 Miss U.S.A. JuneFox Film 1917 Every Girl's Dream GretchenFox Film 1917 A Modern Cinderella JoyceFox Film 1917 The Sunshine Maid (unknown)Fox Film 1917 Unknown 274 Dora Belton, in later lifeFox Film 1918 A Camouflage Kiss Martha ThorneFox Film 1918 Blue-Eyed Mary Mary Du BoisFox Film 1918 The Heart of Romance Eloise JacksonFox Film 1918 Miss Innocence Dolores MayFox Film 1919 A Damsel in Distress Maud MarshAlbert Capellani Productions, Inc. 1919 Oh, Boy! Lou Ellen CarterAlbert Capellani Productions, Inc. 1919 The Love Cheat Louise GordonAlbert Capellani Productions, Inc. 1920Rogues and Romance feature-length version of Pirate GoldSylvia LeeGeorge B. Seitz Productions 1920 In Walked Mary Mary Ann HubbardAlbert Capellani Productions, Inc. 1921 The Sky Ranger June ElliottGeorge B. Seitz Productions