June MacCloy
June MacCloy
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June Mary MacCloy was born in Sturgis, Michigan on June 2, 1909. When
she was a child her family moved to Toledo, Ohio. With her radiant
smile, her tall, blonde, good looks and unusual voice, she brightened
many a film and stage with her talent. After 1940 she became an obscure
part of Hollywood and Broadway history. When she was a deep-voiced, 5'
71/2" teenage girl, she was chosen by song writer Lew Brown (of the
prolific team DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) to do an impersonation of
Broadway star Harry Richman, singing "I'm On The Crest of a Wave" in
the ninth edition of George White's Scandals (Apollo Theater, July 2,
1928; 230 performances), starring Richman, Frances Williams, Willie &
Eugene Howard and Ann Pennington. She and her mother moved to New York,
and before embarking on a film career she was featured in the
Parkington unit vaudeville shows, designed by Vincente Minnelli. In
1930 she was signed by Paramount Pictures to make film shorts in
Astoria, L.I. Before making any features for Paramount, she was loaned
out to United Artists to make her first feature, "Reaching for the
Moon" with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Bebe Daniels. She's the
memorable, tall, pretty blond with the deep voice, singing 16 measures
of "When the Folks High Up Do The Mean Low Down!" by Irving Berlin.
That same year, Paramount co-starred her with Frances Dee and Jack
Oakie in "June Moon" (based on the Lardner-Kaufman play). Next came
"The Big Gamble" (R-K-O Pathe) starring Bill Boyd, with Dorothy
Sebastian, Warner Oland and ZaSu Pitts. In the early 1930s MacCloy made
at least nine film shorts, including a series of short comedies called
"The Gay Girls" with Marion Schilling and Gertrude Short. Three of her
shorts were directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, using the name
"William Goodrich." In 1932 she appeared with Lupe Velez, Bert Lahr,
Buddy Rogers and June Knight in Hot-Cha, Florenz Ziegfeld's last
production (Ziegfeld Theater, March 8, 1932; 119 performances). Her
featured song was "Little Old New York" (unpublished) by Lew Brown and
Ray Henderson. When Hot-Cha closed, June sang on the cruise ship, "S.S.
Transylvania, " and spent the rest of the decade performing in Chicago,
New York and San Francisco clubs and theaters, with the orchestras of
Johnny Hamp, Henry King, Ben Pollock and Griff Williams (with whom she
recorded for Decca). Some of these spots included New York's Paramount
Theater, Chicago's Chez Paree, and San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins.
For Warner Bros./Vitaphone, she made a Technicolor two-reeler with Leon
Erroll called "Good Morning, Eve, " directed by Roy Mack (September,
1934). Because of her contralto voice, she felt she was overlooked by
radio producers. She suspected, many years later, that film producers
may have thought she was a Lesbian. At Columbia Studios, she made
"Glamour for Sale" in 1940, with Anita Louise and Roger Pryor. Her last
real role was in "Go West" (MGM, 1940) in which she tried to seduce
Groucho Marx, and sang a song, "You Can't Argue With Love"
(unpublished) in the beer hall. She retired from performing when she
married California architect Neal Wendell Butler, with whom she raised
two children in Southern California. She met her husband through their
mutual love of jazz music. She was widowed in 1985.
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