Lang, June (1915—)

American actress . Name variations: also acted as June Vlasek. Born Winifred June Vlasek on May 5, 1915, in Minneapolis, Minnesota; married briefly to Vic Orsatti (an agent); married briefly to John Roselli (a mobster); married a businessman named Morgan, in 1944 (divorced 1954); one source claims that Lang also married and divorced British actor Josh Ambler; children: (last marriage) Patricia Morgan.

Selected filmography:

(as June Vlasek) Young Sinners (1931); (as June Vlasek) Chandu the Magician (1932); (as June Vlasek) The Man Who Dared (1933); Music in the Air (1934); Bonnie Scotland (1935); The Country Doctor (1936); Captain January (1936); The Road to Glory (1936); White Hunter (1936); Nancy Steele Is Missing (1937); Wee Willie Winkie (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); International Settlement (1938); Meet the Girls (1938); Zenobia (1939); Captain Fury (1939); For Love or Money (1939); Convicted Woman (1940); Redhead (1941); The Deadly Game (1941); City of Silent Men (1942); Footlight Serenade (1942); Flesh and Fantasy (1943); Lighthouse (1947).

A striking blue-eyed blonde, June Lang was a professional dancer before breaking into films as an extra in Young Sinners (1931). After several other small movie roles, she was placed under contract at Fox, where she was groomed as a potential star. She was cast in a series of awkward roles, however, and, though she photographed well, never clicked as a screen personality. After she walked out of a shoot in London in 1938, her contract was canceled. Lang went on to a series of unremarkable roles in mostly small pictures, the last of which was Lighthouse (1947). After a few commercials and a brief stint as an on-air telephone operator for a Los Angeles talk show, she retired. Lang was married at least three times; her second and very brief union with convicted mobster Johnny Roselli was said to have further damaged her career.