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Donna and Gypsy Rose Lee's sister

  • JP
  • Nov 8, 2020
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Alan Ladd and June Havoc in Chicago Deadline

June Havoc (November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010).


June Havoc was a Canadian American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director. She began her career as a child vaudeville performer, along with her sister Gypsy Rose Lee. 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.


She appears with Donna Reed and Alan Ladd in Chicago Deadline (1949), an American film noir crime film about a reporter for a Chicago newspaper.

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Otis Jame
Otis Jame
Nov 20, 2025

Between Stickman performing with Gypsy Rose Lee in vaudeville and her Hollywood roles, what skills or experiences carried over to her film work?

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