{{Short description|American actress (1905–1940)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Mildred June | image = Mildred June, silent films (SAYRE 4856).jpg | image_size = | caption = June in 1922 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|12|23|mf=yes}} | birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|06|19|1905|12|23|mf=yes}} | death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S. | resting_place = Hollywood Forever Cemetery | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1919–1936 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Herbert Edward Capps|1922|1925|reason=div}} * {{marriage|Bud Sheehan|1930|1935|reason=d.}} }} | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = }} '''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.<ref name=actr/> thumb|left|The 1921 comedy ''Be Reasonable'' She was an American actress appearing in silent films. June starred in Troubles of a Bride in 1924 with Robert Agnew and Alan Hale.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/12860-TROUBLES-OF-A-BRIDE|access-date=2021-06-14|website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> 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'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mildred June {{!}} Hollywood Forever %|url=https://hollywoodforever.com/story/mildred-june/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Hollywood Forever|language=en-US}}</ref> in which she and Oliver Hardy starred.<ref>{{Citation|title=Filmszínésznő leszek|url=https://port.hu/adatlap/film/tv/filmszineszno-leszek-crazy-to-act/movie-44725|language=hu|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref>
Her last part in a film was a small one in ''Our Relations'' which starred Laurel and Hardy in 1936.<ref name="actr">{{Cite web|last=|first=|last2=|last3=|last4=|last5=|last6=|first6=|title=Mildred June ~ The Alcoholic Bathing Beauty|url=http://www.classicactresses.org/2016/11/mildred-june-bathing-beauty.html|access-date=2021-06-14|language=en}}</ref>
She died young from alcoholism in Hollywood in 1940 from cirrhosis of the liver.<ref name=actr/>
==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== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0432480}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:June, Mildred}} Category:1905 births Category:1940 deaths Category:Actresses from St. Louis Category:American silent film actresses Category:20th-century American actresses Category:Deaths from cirrhosis Category:Alcohol-related deaths in California