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June Martel (born Martha Irene Greif; November 19, 1909 November 23, 1978) was a singer and a stage and motion picture actress from Chicago, Illinois. She was a petite brunette.

June Martel
Martel in Going Highbrow (1935)
Born
Martha Irene Greif

(1909-11-19)November 19, 1909
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedNovember 23, 1978(1978-11-23) (aged 69)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Singer
  • actress
Years active19381938
Spouse(s)
Walter Joseph Klavun
(m. 1931; div. 1938)

Frank Fenton
(m. 1941; div. 19??)

Singer and actress


Her career began as a singer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Martel was in the cast of the Broadway (Manhattan) play, Snatch as Snatch Can, in May 1934. Other actors paired with her included Barton MacLane. Her first film role was in Front Page Woman (1935) followed by Going Highbrow (1935). The latter starred Guy Kibbee. She was the female lead in Fighting Youth (1935). Playing the part of "Betty Wilson'," Martel starred opposite Charles Farrell and Andy Devine. The movie combined football excitement with the influence of communism on college athletics.

Martel was signed by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. in 1935. Other aspiring Warners' actresses were Olivia de Havilland, June Grabiner, Nan Grey, and Dorothy Dare. By August 1936 she had become the property of Paramount Pictures. The studio cast her as the ingenue in American Plan. The story concerned a girl who inherits a newspaper, adapted from an unpublished play by Manny Seff and Milton Lazarus. She also appeared in Sitting on the Moon in 1936.

Martel's final screen roles came in the late 1930s, in western films. Among these are Forlorn River (1937), Wild Horse Rodeo (1937) and Santa Fe Stampede (1938).


Personal life


She collected odd pieces of jewelry and had amassed a small trunkload of items by 1937. In February 1941 Martel married screenwriter Frank Fenton. Fenton was also a scenarist and magazine writer. Her first husband was Walter J. Klavun, a Yale University graduate, whom she divorced in Mexico in 1938.

June Martel died in 1978 in Los Angeles County, California.


Filmography


Year Title Role Notes
1935Going HighbrowSandy
1935Front Page WomanOlive Wilson
1935Waterfront LadyChorus GirlUncredited
1935Dr. SocratesYoung WomanUncredited
1935Fighting YouthBetty Wilson
1936Sitting on the MoonYoung Wife
1936Arizona MahoneySue Beatrice Bixby
1937Her Husband LiesBetty Thomas
1937Night of MysteryBarton
1937Forlorn RiverIna Blaine
1937Wild Horse RodeoAlice Harkley
1938Santa Fe StampedeNancy Carson(final film role)

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