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In 1928 she joined Vanities, produced by Earl Carroll, but her mother forced her to quit due to her skimpy costume.
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June MacCloy
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Born in Sturgis, Michigan, MacCloy moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child. When she was a teenager, MacCloy was chosen by song writer/producer Lew Brown (of the prolific team DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) to impersonate Broadway star Harry Richman, singing "I"m On The Crest of a Wave" in the ninth edition of George White"s Scandals (Apollo, July 2, 1928. 230 performances). After her film début she appeared with Lupe Vélez, Bert Lahr, Buddy Rogers and June Knight in "Hot-Cha", Florenz Ziegfeld"s last production (Ziegfeld, March 8, 1932.
119 performances).
In March 1931 she was sued for divorce in Cincinnati, Ohio by Wilbur Guthlein, a representative of a motion picture corporation. MacCloy died May 5, 2005 of natural causes.
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