June Martel (November , â€" November , ) was a singer and a stage and
motion picture actress from Chicago, Illinois. She was a petite
brunette who weighed only a bit more than one hundred pounds.Her
career began as a singer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martel was in
the cast of the Broadway (Manhattan) play, Snatch as Snatch Can, in
May . Other actors paired with her included Barton MacLane. Her first
film role was in Front Page Woman () followed by Going Highbrow ().
The latter starred Guy Kibbee. She was the female lead in Fighting
Youth (). Playing the part of "Betty Wilson'," Martel starred opposite
Charles Farrell and Andy Devine. The movie combined football
excitement with the influence of communism on college athletics.Martel
was signed by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. in . Other aspiring
Warners' actresses were Olivia de Havilland, June Grabiner, Nan Grey,
and Dorothy Dare. By August she had become the property of Paramount
Pictures. The studio cast her as the ingenue in American Plan. The
story concerned a girl who inherits a newspaper, adapted from an
unpublished play by Manny Seff and Milton Lazarus. She also appeared
in Sitting on the Moon in .Martel's final screen roles came in the
late s, in western films. Among these are Forlorn River (), Wild Horse
Rodeo () and Santa Fe Stampede ().
motion picture actress from Chicago, Illinois. She was a petite
brunette who weighed only a bit more than one hundred pounds.Her
career began as a singer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martel was in
the cast of the Broadway (Manhattan) play, Snatch as Snatch Can, in
May . Other actors paired with her included Barton MacLane. Her first
film role was in Front Page Woman () followed by Going Highbrow ().
The latter starred Guy Kibbee. She was the female lead in Fighting
Youth (). Playing the part of "Betty Wilson'," Martel starred opposite
Charles Farrell and Andy Devine. The movie combined football
excitement with the influence of communism on college athletics.Martel
was signed by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. in . Other aspiring
Warners' actresses were Olivia de Havilland, June Grabiner, Nan Grey,
and Dorothy Dare. By August she had become the property of Paramount
Pictures. The studio cast her as the ingenue in American Plan. The
story concerned a girl who inherits a newspaper, adapted from an
unpublished play by Manny Seff and Milton Lazarus. She also appeared
in Sitting on the Moon in .Martel's final screen roles came in the
late s, in western films. Among these are Forlorn River (), Wild Horse
Rodeo () and Santa Fe Stampede ().
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