June Knight

Career When Valliquietto first partnered with dancer John Holland, she adopted the stage name June Knight. This had been the name of Holland's previous dance partner.

Aged 19, Knight appeared in the last Ziegfeld Follies show, Hot-Cha! (1932). She featured in four other Broadway shows, Take A Chance (1932), Jubilee (1935) The Would-Be Gentleman (1946) (her only non-musical) and Sweethearts (1947). June Knight and Robert Taylor in a scene from "Broadway Melody of 1936" She also had a short-lived film career, appearing in 12 films from 1930 to 1940, most notably in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), in which she sang the hit song "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'" with co-star Robert Taylor.

Personal life and death Knight married four times. First, to Palm Beach stockbroker Paul Ames, with whom she lived for nine days before he petitioned for a divorce. She then married Texas oilman Arthur A. Cameron. After their divorce she wed Lockheed Aircraft Corporation co-founder Carl B. Squier, whose wife had died in a plane crash 11 years earlier. Their union lasted 18 years. Following Squier's death, she married his Lockheed colleague and friend Jack Buehler.

In 1940, Knight (now known as June Cameron), found that the original dancer called June Knight was still using this name, and took the case to court. Knight, the actress, argued that she had registered the name in 1931, and had made the name famous, and that the original dancer had agreed to stop using this name.

Knight died in 1987, aged 74, following complications from a stroke. She was laid to rest in Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.

Recognition Knight received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 3, 1960 for her contribution to the motion picture industry.

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