A vivacious blonde from Los Angeles, June Knight (born Margaret Valliquietto) made her mark on Broadway in Florenz Ziegfeld's Hot Cha!, a star-studded affair featuring Lupe Velez, Buddy Rogers, Bert Lahr, and the terpsichorean splendor of Eleanor Powell, and was later in the equally successful Take a Chance (1932) and Jubilee (1934). Hollywood, her hometown, came calling, of course, and...