
June Havoc
Acting
🎂 1912-11-08
June Havoc (born Ellen June Evangeline Hovick), was a Canadian American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director. Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood, and stage-directed, both on and off-Broadway. She last appeared on television in 1990 in a story arc on the soap opera General Hospital. Her elder sister Louise gravitated to burlesque and became the well-known striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee. Following their parents' divorce, the two sisters earned the family's income by appearing in vaudeville, where June's talent often overshadowed Louise's. Baby June got an audition with Alexander Pantages, who had come to Seattle, Washington in 1902 to build theaters up and down the west coast of the United States. Soon, she was launched in vaudeville and also appeared in Hollywood movies. She could not speak until the age of three, but the films were all silent. She would cry for the cameras when her mother told her that the family's dog had died. In December 1928, Havoc, in an effort to escape her overbearing mother, eloped with Bobby Reed, a boy in the vaudeville act. Weeks later after performing at the Jayhawk Theatre in Topeka, Kansas, Rose reported Reed to the Topeka Police, and he was arrested. Rose had a concealed gun on her when she met Bobby at the police station. She pulled the trigger, but the safety was on. She then physically attacked her soon-to-be new son-in-law, and the police had to pry her off the hapless Reed. June soon married him, leaving both her family and the act. The marriage did not last, but the two remained on friendly terms. June's only child was a daughter, born April Rose Hyde. A marriage license, dated November 30, 1928 for Ellen Hovick and Weldon Hyde, would seem to indicate that Bobby Reed's real name was Weldon Hyde. April became an actress in the 1950s known as April Kent. She predeceased her mother, dying in Paris in 1998.
Cast credits(50)

Self
1962

Betty MacDonald
1950

Linda Duffield
1950

Crystal Davis
1950

Self
1961

1955

Self
1950

Miranda Forsythe
1963

Self
1950

Thelma Vantay
1984

Lady Abigail Austin
1984

Kitty Sharpe
1948

Karen Thorne
1963

1971

1957
Wilma 'Willy' Dodger
1954
Millie
1950

Margo
1953

Aunt Clara
1987

Elaine Wales
1947

Darlene
1943

Trixie Summers
1945

Hoover's Mother
1977

Helen Morell
1980

Nina Karanova
1948

Lil Boggs
1944

Mme. Tamara Baranoff
1947

Vantura Davis
1973

Margie Foster
1950

Gussie Evans
1948

Molly X
1949

Leslie Quayle
1943

Sandra
1949

Molly Jeffrys
1970

Maggie Roberts
1950

Effie Shelton
1942

Opal
1942

Self
2003

Norma
1951

Dolly Smythe
1942
Roxey Rochelle
1942

Leona
1949

1942

Child
1918

Lillian Colman
1944

Beulah Clancy
1943
Child
1918

Jean Wilson
1952

Lorrie Delacourt
1956

1957