Mildred June

American actress (1905–1940)

Herbert Edward Capps

(m. 1922; div. 1925)

Bud Sheehan

(m. 1930; died 1935)

Mildred June (December 23, 1905 – June 19, 1940) was an American actress who appeared in silent films. She was also co-writer of a 1927 film. She died at the age of 34 from alcoholism.

Life

June was born in St. Louis in 1905.^[1]

She was an American actress appearing in silent films. June starred in Troubles of a Bride in 1924 with Robert Agnew and Alan Hale.^[2] and in the similarly themed Matrimony Blues in 1926 with Lige Conley. The following year she starred in The Snarl of Hate and she was co-writer of the 1927 film Crazy to Act,^[3] in which she and Oliver Hardy starred.^[4]

Her last part in a film was a small one in Our Relations which starred Laurel and Hardy in 1936.^[1]

She died young from alcoholism in Hollywood in 1940 from cirrhosis of the liver.^[1]

Selected filmography

Down on the Farm (1920)
Molly O (1921)
A Small Town Idol (1921)
Rich Men's Wives (1922)
The Rosary (1922)
The Crossroads of New York (1922)
Crinoline and Romance (1923)
Fashionable Fakers (1923)
The Greatest Menace (1923)
Troubles of a Bride (1924)
The Battling Kangaroo (1926)
The Snarl of Hate (1927)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Mildred June ~ The Alcoholic Bathing Beauty". Retrieved June 14, 2021.
^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
^ "Mildred June | Hollywood Forever %". Hollywood Forever. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
^ Filmszínésznő leszek (in Hungarian), retrieved June 14, 2021