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June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick on
November 8, 1916 in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada) is an actress and dancer. Some sources
indicate that her birth name was Ellen June
Hovick.

Her older sister, Rose Louise Hovick, is best
known as Gypsy Rose Lee. Their mother, Rose
Thompson, had married John Hovick, a newspaper ad
man, at the age of fifteen, and was the classic
example of a smothering stage mother, though more
horrid details were reportedly whitewashed in
Gypsy's memoirs. Both girls would be known by
their middle names.

Following her parents divorce, the two sisters
earned the family's money by appearing in
vaudeville, where June's talent shone, while
Louise stood in the background. June, at the age
of 13 in 1929, married a boy in the act, named
Bobby Reed, who apparently fathered her only
child, her daughter, April Reed. Rose had Bobby
arrested and he was met at the police station by
Rose, carrying a hidden gun. She pulled the
trigger, but the safety was on and Bobby was
freed. June left the act. Louise gravitated to
burlesque, taking the name Gypsy Rose Lee.

June, adopting the name June Havoc, got her first
acting break on Broadway in Richard
Rodgers|Rodgers and Lorenz Hart|Hart's Pal Joey,
and moved on to Hollywood roles in such movies as
Gentleman's Agreement. 

She married secondly, in 1935 to Donald S. Gibbs,
and thirdly, in 1949, to William Spier.	

June and Gypsy continued to get demands for money
from their mother, who had opened a lesbian
boardinghouse in a ten-room apartment on West End
Avenue, in New York City, the property rented for
her by Gypsy, and a farm in Highland Mills, New
York. Rose shot and killed one of her guests,
(who, according to Erik Preminger, Gypsy's son)
was Rose's OWN lover, who had made a pass at
Gypsy. The incident was explained away as a
suicide and Rose was not prosecuted.  

Rose died in 1954 of colon cancer: the sisters now
felt free to write about her without risking a
lawsuit. Gypsy's memoirs, titled Gypsy, were
published in 1957, and were taken as inspirational
material for the Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and
Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
June did not like the way she was portrayed in the
piece, but was eventually persuaded not to oppose
it, for her sister's sake. The play and the
subsequent movie deal assured Gypsy a steady
income. Gypsy also died of cancer at the age of 59
in 1970.

To set the records straight, June wrote two more
realistically based books of memoirs, titled Early
Havoc and More Havoc. She also has a book called
"Marathon 33."  She still acts from time to time
and lives on a farm in Stamford, Connecticut.

==Filmography==
*Hey There! - 1918
*Four Jacks and a Jill - 1942
*Powder Town - 1942 
*My Sister Eileen - 1942 
*Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 - 1942 
*Sing Your Worries Away - 1942 
*Hello, Frisco, Hello - 1943 
*No Time for Love - 1943 
*Hi Diddle Diddle - 1943 
*Timber Queen - 1944 
*Casanova in Burlesque - 1944 
*Brewster's Millions - 1945 
*Gentleman's Agreement - 1947 
*Intrigue - 1947 
* The Iron Curtain - 1948
*When My Baby Smiles at Me - 1948 
*Chicago Deadline - 1949 
*The Story of Molly X - 1949 
*Red, Hot and Blue - 1949 
*Mother Didn't Tell Me - 1950
*Once a Thief - 1950 
*Follow the Sun - 1951 
*Lady Possessed - 1952 
*Three for Jamie Dawn - 1956 
*The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover - 1977 
*Can't Stop the Music - 1980
*A Return to Salem's Lot - 1987 

==Television==
*Willy - 1954 
*Mr. Broadway - 1957 
*The June Havoc Show - 1964
*The Boy Who Stole the Elephant - 1970
*Vaudeville: An 'American Masters' Special - 1997 
*Marlene: Inventing Dietrich - 2000