June Lang
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| Background information | |
| Born as: | Winifred June Vlasek |
| Born | May 5, 1917 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 2005 - at age 88 Valley Village, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education: | Beverly Hills High School |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years active | 1931–1961 |
June Lang (born Winifred June Vlasek, ✦May 5, 1917 – †May 16, 2005) was an American film actress.
Early life
Born Winifred June Vlasek in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was the daughter of Edith and Clarence Vlasek, After the family moved to Los Angeles, Lang trained at a school of dance and performed in revues in theaters in Los Angeles. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in the summer graduating class of 1933.
Career
At age 16, Lang was a dancer at a vaudeville theater in Los Angeles when she left that job to seek work at the Fox Film studio. The company had her teeth straightened and changed her name from Vlasek to Lang.
Lang made her film debut in 1931, with much of her early work coming in minor roles in musical and dramatic films. She gradually secured second lead roles in mostly B movies for 20th Century Fox. She played her debut feature film role in Young Sinners.
Early in Lang's career, she was a blonde when she worked for Fox Film, averaging "about one good role a year" and spending more time posing for publicity photographs while wearing a bathing suit. Her last film under her contract was Bonnie Scotland (1935), for which Fox loaned her to Hal Roach Studios. Fox did not renew her contract, and during her time of "brief retirement," she changed her hair color to chestnut. An encounter with producer Darryl F. Zanuck at the Trocadero nightclub led to her being cast as the romantic lead in Captain January (1936) for the new 20th Century Fox. Within 12 weeks, she had five significant roles in films.
She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and as Joyce Williams in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).
Personal life
Lang was first married to her Hollywood agent, Victor Orsatti, on May 29, 1937, but they divorced just over two months later on August 5, 1937. Her image as a wholesome leading lady faced some damage when she married Johnny Roselli, a mobster connected to Chicago who played a role in controlling Hollywood movie unions, on April 1, 1939. Lang later claimed she was unaware of Roselli's mob affiliations. The couple divorced in March 1943. A year prior to her marriage to Roselli, Fox Studios had released Lang from her contract. She was let go in 1938 for defying studio orders by leaving the U.K. after being cast in So This Is London, filmed at Pinewood Studios, Fox's facility in the U.K. Lang and her mother decided to leave London due to concerns over a potential war in Europe. Three years after marrying Roselli, Lang divorced him, but she subsequently found it increasingly difficult to obtain steady film roles. In 1946, Lang married John Morgan (they divorced in 1952), with whom she had a daughter.
Lang semi-retired from acting in 1947, after struggling as a freelancer to re-establish her film career for several years. Lang occasionally appeared in minor television roles.
Lang was in the film Stage Door Canteen
She died in May 2005 at 88
- June Lang gallery
External links
Filmography
- Wikipedia article: June Lang Filmography
https://www.vintag.es/2022/11/june%20Lang-by-gene-korman.html
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:June_Lang ]
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