Career
Born June Howard-Tripp in London, she worked mainly on stage (in revue). She made a handful of films, mostly in the silent era. Her most notable screen role was in the silent Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) opposite Ivor Novello.
They divorced in 1933 and she returned to the stage.
In later life, she appeared in a cameo role in, as well as several other films, and provided the narration on the Jean Renoir film The River (1951). In the 1950s she retired from acting for good.
In 1951 she became a United States citizen and published her biography in 1960. The Glass Ladder (London: Heinemann, 1960).
