Mildred June

Biography

Mildred June was born on December 23, 1905, in St Louis, Missouri. When she was a child her family moved to Kansas and eventually settled in California. She attended Hollywood high school and took dancing lessons. At the age of fifteen Mildred was discovered by producer Mack Sennett. She became one his bathing beauties and worked as an extra in his films. Mildred appeared in dozens of short films including Dog Shy with Charley Chase and Hook and Ladder with Hoot Gibson. She also starred in a series of two reel comedies with Billy Bevan. Although she enjoyed making comedies she dreamed of becoming a dramatic actress. Mildred married Herbert Edward Capps, a twenty-five year old dentist, in 1922. The following year she was given the lead in the drama The Greatest Menace. She was signed by Universal studios but her career never took off. Mildred returned to Mack Sennett's studio and appeared in the 1927 comedy Crazy To Act. She divorced her husband and had a brief romance with with real estate executive Jimmy Houston. Unfortunately by 1928 she was unemployed and battling a serious alcohol problem. Mildred married her second husband, Bud Sheehan, in 1930. Sadly he passed away a few years later. In 1936 she had a bit part in the Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations. It would her last acting role. On June 19, 1940 Mildred passed away from cirrhosis of the liver caused by her alcoholism. She was only thirty-four years old. Mildred was cremated and her ashes were buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Known For

Ethel St. John

Crazy to Act

New Year's Guest (uncredited)

Manslaughter

Waitress

The Crossroads of New York

Sally Drennan

Hook and Ladder

The Girl

Dog Shy

Kick Me Again

Mrs. Charles W. Wright Jr

The Greatest Menace

A Deep Sea Panic

Jim's Sweetheart

Gymnasium Jim

Minor Role

Down on the Farm

The Society Belle

Love and Doughnuts

The Heiress

When Summer Comes

The Cop's Sweetheart

On Patrol

The Sportsman's Wife

The Duck Hunter

Matrimony Blues

Mrs. Smiley

Smith's Picnic

Birdie Bevans

Crinoline and Romance

Limber Lucy

The Battling Kangaroo

Bathing Girl (uncredited)

Up in Alf's Place

Alice Wilton

The Rosary

Tuck's wife

Nip and Tuck

The Only Girl

Be Reasonable

The House of Flickers

Elinor

When Seconds Count

Mildred Patterson

Troubles of a Bride

Estelle Davenport

Rich Men's Wives

Clara Ridder

Fashionable Fakers

(uncredited)

Love, Honor and Behave