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June Havoc and William Demarest in scene from "Red, Hot And Blue," her latest film.
June Havoc, William Talman, William Demarest and Betty Hutton welcome Adolph Zukor, chairman of the board for Paramount Pictures, on the "Red, Hot And Blue" set.
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stage-film work (and beatings) to establish June tis a eapital-A Actress.
Nowadays. June is handed such piquant movie roles as that of the bigoted secretary in 20th Century-Fox's "Gentleman's Agreement." and. more recently, she played a brittle, likeable ( but not laudable) character in Alan Ladd's "Chicago Deadline." Currently she is a worldly New Yorker in "Red, Hot And Blue," a realistic gangster-detective fillum starring Betty Hutton — the latter two being made for Paramount.
There's quite a story back of June's tooth-and-nail fight to rid herself of the comedienne, sexy hoyden labels — not to forget the hefty placard she's carried on her aching hack for lo. these many years, the same reading: "This is Gypsy Rose Lee's kid sister."
"I was extremely bad for RKO," says June, "and vice versa. And when they decided that I was a flop and gave me the boot, it was the best possible thing because, after all, I was headed in the wrong direction. It's true I was making good money working in their comedies, but I wasn't happy. You know something? I've never been happy being funny ..."
This interview with June took place in her suite in New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel on Fifth Avenue. When she ojiened the
door for us, a white streak — a cute toy French Poodle named Suzetta — hurled "All I ask is a chance to herself at us. bumped noisily against create something," says June. an ankle and ( Please turn to page 65)
Jane Nigh and June in another scene from the Paramount film. June's determined to get away from hoydenish roles.