June Knight (born Margaret Rose Valliquietto; January , â€" June , )
was an American Broadway and film actress and singer.Knight was born
in Los Angeles in . Sickly throughout the first years of her life, she
suffered from tuberculosis when she was years old and doctors told
her parents that there was a strong chance that she would not live to
maturity. Due to infantile paralysis, she was unable to walk until she
was five years old.She started to perform songs and dance publicly at
age ten.Dancer John Holland changed her name to June Knight when she
became his partner, assigning her the same name as that of his
previous partner. That change led to a court case in when the actress
June Knight filed suit against the original dancer with that name. The
actress said that she had made the name famous and that the dancer had
previously agreed to stop using that name.
was an American Broadway and film actress and singer.Knight was born
in Los Angeles in . Sickly throughout the first years of her life, she
suffered from tuberculosis when she was years old and doctors told
her parents that there was a strong chance that she would not live to
maturity. Due to infantile paralysis, she was unable to walk until she
was five years old.She started to perform songs and dance publicly at
age ten.Dancer John Holland changed her name to June Knight when she
became his partner, assigning her the same name as that of his
previous partner. That change led to a court case in when the actress
June Knight filed suit against the original dancer with that name. The
actress said that she had made the name famous and that the dancer had
previously agreed to stop using that name.
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