June MacCloy

June MacCloy

Born: June 2, 1909
Died: May 5, 2005
in Sturgis, Michigan, USA
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June MacCloy (June 2, 1909 – May 5, 2005) was an American actress and singer in the 1930s and 1940s.

Born in Sturgis, Michigan, MacCloy moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child. Signed by Paramount Pictures in 1930, she was loaned out to United Artists for her first feature, Reaching for the Moon (film) (1931), starring Bebe Daniels, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Edward Everett Horton and Claud Allister. She plays 'Kitty,' Bebe Daniels' flirtatious best friend. The director, Edmund Goulding, was casting another Fairbanks film when he heard about MacCloy and wired her to come and test. Her first Paramount film was June Moon (released March 21, 1931), based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

Subsequently, MacCloy appeared in a variety of shorts and some features with stars such as Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and ZaSu Pitts. With co-stars Gertrude Short and Marion Shilling, she made a series of shorts for RKO-Pathé called The Gay Girls. One of her directors was the then disgraced Fatty Arbuckle. She co-starred with Leon Errol in the second full Technicolor film Good Morning, Eve! (1934), released just after another Leon Errol short Service With a Smile (1934).

MacCloy is probably best remembered today for her last major film role in Go West (1940), starring the Marx Brothers.

Movies for June MacCloy...

Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Lulubelle
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: Peggy Davis
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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Good Morning, Eve!
Title: Good Morning, Eve!
Character: Eve
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stroll through time. They make a few stops along the way for some musical interludes. These stops include in the Gardens of Emperor Nero of Rome for a concert circa 100 A.D., in King Arthur's court, and at a beach resort in current times.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
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Gigolettes
Title: Gigolettes
Character: June
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
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Easy to Get
Title: Easy to Get
Character: June
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
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Take 'em and Shake 'em
Title: Take 'em and Shake 'em
Released: September 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
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The Big Gamble
Title: The Big Gamble
Character: Mae Robbins
Released: September 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
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June Moon
Title: June Moon
Character: Eileen Fletcher
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
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Reaching for the Moon
Title: Reaching for the Moon
Character: Kitty - Aero Girl With Long Earrings
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.