- "Baby" June Havoc was very unhappy over the content of her sister Gypsy Rose Lee's musical memoir "Gypsy," which became a monstrous hit on Broadway in the 1950s. The estrangement between the two lasted over a decade and only ended when Gypsy told June she was dying of cancer and wanted to make amends.
- She once danced in a marathon that lasted four months, with she and her partner winning second place and splitting the $100 prize after 3,000 hours of dancing.
- Mother Rose died of colon cancer in 1954. With their mother gone, June and sister Gypsy Rose Lee decided they could write about their lives without risking a lawsuit. Lee's memoirs, entitled "Gypsy", were published in 1957, and later evolved into the smash Broadway musical starring Ethel Merman as Mama Rose.
- She was one of just three Hollywood Republicans, the others being Richard Conte and Paul Henreid, to fight the blacklist.
- Sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
- June Havoc (1912-2010, age 97) began working professionally at the age of 2. By the time "Baby June" was 4, she already had made numerous film appearances. By 1919, at age 7, she was earning $1,500 a week as a top child star on the vaudeville circuit.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1964 Tony Award as Best Director (Dramatic) for "Marathon '33."
- Was an active member of The First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut.
- "And I hadn't a clue what I was doing," June Havoc said in a 1980 interview with the Los Angeles Times. "When the registrar for my wedding certificate application - without looking up, asked me, 'Do you have VD?' I answered brightly: 'Of course!' ".
- Mother of April Kent, who died in 1998.
- In 1986, Havoc wrote to The Los Angeles Times' obituary editor, listing some of her accomplishments. "Please take this information into your obituary files (for your eventual use)," she wrote. "These are the facts on this life and I'm a stickler for facts." In the letter, Havoc noted that she had guest starred on "The Paper Chase" and appeared with the Village People in "Can't Stop the Music" (1980). Among other highlights, she included: a Tony Award nomination for best director for her 1963 staging of "Marathon '33" - a play she wrote based on her novel "Early Havoc" - and her 1978 restoration of Cannon Crossing, a pre-Civil War village and business enclave in Wilton, Conn. She made no mention of her burlesque-star sister, her three marriages or her daughter, April Hyde, who did some acting as April Kent.
- She has no grave, upon her death she was cremated and by request her ashes were scattered in the garden of her beloved Connecticut home.
- She was nominated for a 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "Twigs", at the Pheasant Run Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- Aunt of Erik Lee Preminger.
- Her father was of Norwegian descent. Her mother had British Isles and German ancestry.
- She was estranged from her sister, Gypsy Rose, for many years but the two reconciled before Gypsy Rose's death, in 1970, from lung cancer.
- She was a Republican but did vote Democrat time and again.
- June was only the second woman to receive a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Her nomination came in 1964 for "Marathon'33". She received her nod three years after Joan Littlewood broke through with her nomination for "The Hostage".
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