June Walker (June , â€" February , ) was an American stage and film
actress.She appeared on Broadway in such plays as Green Grow the
Lilacs, The Farmer Takes a Wife, and Twelfth Night. She was the first
actress to portray the character of Lorelei Lee, in the Broadway
production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. As the first actress to
portray Lorelei Lee, Walker was instrumental in an interpretation that
helped define the character. She was said to have "played a role that
was as much her creation as that of Anita Loos." "Tossing her golden
curls, blinking her eyes and twirling her waist-length string of
pearls," Walker's version of Lorelei embodied the flapper of the
Roaring Twenties. The success of the play launched Walker's career,
and she had further Broadway successes. She played Linda Loman to
Thomas Mitchell's Willy in the touring company of Death of a
Salesman. She toured as Vinnie in Life with FatherIn , she married
British actor Geoffrey Kerr (born January , â€" died July , ). The
couple divorced in ; their son is actor John Kerr (born â€" died ).
She appeared with her son in a episode of NBC's Justice. It was his
first acting engagement.After her death in , aged , from undisclosed
causes, Walker was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery in Los Angeles.
actress.She appeared on Broadway in such plays as Green Grow the
Lilacs, The Farmer Takes a Wife, and Twelfth Night. She was the first
actress to portray the character of Lorelei Lee, in the Broadway
production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. As the first actress to
portray Lorelei Lee, Walker was instrumental in an interpretation that
helped define the character. She was said to have "played a role that
was as much her creation as that of Anita Loos." "Tossing her golden
curls, blinking her eyes and twirling her waist-length string of
pearls," Walker's version of Lorelei embodied the flapper of the
Roaring Twenties. The success of the play launched Walker's career,
and she had further Broadway successes. She played Linda Loman to
Thomas Mitchell's Willy in the touring company of Death of a
Salesman. She toured as Vinnie in Life with FatherIn , she married
British actor Geoffrey Kerr (born January , â€" died July , ). The
couple divorced in ; their son is actor John Kerr (born â€" died ).
She appeared with her son in a episode of NBC's Justice. It was his
first acting engagement.After her death in , aged , from undisclosed
causes, Walker was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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