June Havoc, Dinah Shore--1979 TV Interview, Gypsy

[@stephaniebristol3837]

She was such a good actress. She looks beautiful here. Gypsy was equally talented in a different way. I think their mother pitted them each other. Which is really sad if they just gave in and got along. Their mother was a nightmare, I am glad they both broke away from her. They grew up in an extremely hard time especially Vaudville(one of my favorite genres of entertainment as well as old time radio) hard truth was if you didn't perform you didn't eat.

[@donnawoodward5282]

Smiled the whole way through this delightful interview. Thank you for sharing. 💕⭐️

[@NealKanter]

June was so intelligent and no one was more charming than Dinah.

[@barrett7893]

June Havoc was a amazing Actress and performer.. she is missed so much. She broke the curse. Of her sister and mother. She was 97 years old when she passed away in 2010..

[@KJ-xc6qs]

June was 67 years old here and looked gorgeous -- without plastic surgery or dyed hair.

[@Amberszone]

Beachy Keen correction 67 here if this was in fact in 1979 & I think she had some work done imo xo

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Thanks for the correction, being that vivacious and lovely at 67 is even better! :-)

[@Ermwhatthesigma-i9q]

@Sunshine Baker Well, if she did, it looks a hell of a lot better than the plastic surgery today. I don't even recognize some, anymore with all the fillers and implants.

[@tomitstube]

i'd guess june had surgery, i believe gypsy had work done, that is to say neither woman had any "moral" objections to going under the knife.

[@Celisar1]

Sunshine Baker So what? There is no discrepancy between her beautiful face and the rest of her body given her age.

[@blackivy8200]

A beautiful woman that the world lost she and gypsy were beautiful souls that got to make their own lives 🌹❤

[@Cat-no8ts]

I, sadly, didn't realize how wonderful of an actress June Havoc actually was until I saw her in an absolute classic, The Outer Limits, "The Cry of Silence!" She acted with Eddie Albert, and they both were absolutely fabulous because they were so believable! I'm sorry she's gone, but I watch that classic just to watch her talented performance! Love Dinah Shore as well!❤

[@bookwoman53]

I saw Annie on Broadway right before it closed in 1983. June Havoc played Miss Hannigan and I had no idea who she was until much later.

[@sallyjonesie3886]

Wow, that's so cool, I never knew she'd been in Annie!

[@Muttonchop_USA]

I saw her in Annie too. Boy could she kick up her heels even at that age!

[@TheWallBreakersLLC]

It's amazing to think that both of these women were in their 60s here! Dinah Shore was born in 1916 and June Havoc was born in 1912. It shows what living a full life filled with passion can do for us.

[@justynjonn]

June Havoc I see no surgery. Beautiful

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

And June havoc started in films during the 1910s

[@flwrfan1752]

June and Gypsy’s Mother created ( in my opinion) the strain between the two of them.They were both talented and interesting women.

[@catlover34fl]

I can't get over how much June Havoc resembles Alice Faye. I had to look again because she could be Alice Faye's twin sister. Incredible.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

You're right! Their resemblance is uncanny.

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

June mentions that Gypsy "had a good bunk, three squares" and was "very loved where she was," implying that she had it better than June early on, since June was away performing as a toddler and being the breadwinner. But did June consider that Gypsy may have felt abandoned by their mother, when she first took June out on the road? Louise's early life was apparently more stable, but it does a number on a child when a parent seems to favor the other sibling and essentially abandons said child. Louise was only less than two years older.

[@aeichler]

I think the sibling rivalry continued through their entire lives.

[@bookwoman53]

Gypsy wrote that at one point, sadly, she was left with her aunt because she just wasn’t talented enough. She did join her sister on the road later on.

[@tomitstube]

@@steveb1164 even gypsy corroborates what june is saying about their early lives, much of the time "louise" was left behind in the early days with relatives or whoever mother rose could find to watch her, louise definitely felt abandoned and less talented than her younger sister. june saying she "had it better" is really saying how bad she had it. their schedule was grueling for a toddler. neither child spent time in school, louise was self taught, june wasn't able to, and she looked for the first opportunity to get out of that life, married at 13...

[@curly208]

I love the way they both talk. So sweet and buttery.

[@Kit.E.Katz45]

Smooth!😍

[@MrCrowebobby]

The pianist at the famous dance school I went to in 1953, who was born in 1892 and had played piano in famous NY restaurants since she was 15, used to say she would pay the price of a Broadway show just to watch June Havoc walk across stage. On one radio show, all June had to say about "Gypsy" was: "I was a solo act. There was never anyone on stage with me."

[@cattycorner8]

crowe bobby what a wonderful story, Thanks for sharing!

[@westy40]

June looked great here!

[@aborigineorigine7772]

I love you June and thank you so much for being such an instrumental part of my life at Youthbridge... I'll always love you!!!

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

The fact june married at 12 and a half to escape Mama Rose says a hell of a lot!!

[@Celisar1]

Bex is the word What?!? But child marriages are illegal!

[@cattycorner8]

@@Celisar1 In the interview above she says where she got married the age of consent was 12.

[@MrCrowebobby]

The woman who played piano at the Jack Stanley School school in New York, where many of the great dancers passed through at one time or another, (Jack choreographed the routine Gene Kelly did for his audition for Pal Joey) said she would pay the price of a Broadway show just to watch June Havoc walk across stage, her presence and body movement was that frantastic.

[@celladora31]

Ms. Havoc is a true stage preformer. Her whole energy is directed towards the audience. Wide sweeping gestures hahaha so stagey.

[@tomitstube]

june didn't like louise's portrayal of her in gypsy's 1957 "memoir" and broadway play. so this book was her idea of "setting the record straight." mother rose was your proverbial "stage mother", both kids lived a very grown up life. you can tell both june and louise possess neurotic personalities, so much uncertainty growing up during the depression, people forced to do (as june says) degrading things just to survive, dance marathons, louise stripping at a young age. what else are you going to do as a young girl during the 1930's depression? (all they knew was vaudeville, which as june says, was dying.) no education, no future, the depression... it was bad enough for men, women had very limited opportunities… even worse for minorities... these ladies were survivors, that's the best way you can put it, even moderate success didn't bring much comfort to either sister, they were always looking over their shoulder, and there was their mother and the depression... read "american rose" by karen abbott, june saying louise was "lonely" in a "27 room house" isn't completely true, louise hosted many a wild party at that house, mother and june visited but there was tension between them later in life...

[@f.m.r.1437]

June talked about being "full of herself" at one time. I think she was still showing that in this interview.

[@MrCrowebobby]

Of course, she was a child star and then a successful actress.

[@mrwin8]

Great woman..I was in her home in Weston CT. years ago...

[@Tecobelli]

Thank you for posting this!

[@philippacowhig-morris5583]

Beautiful woman, with an extra dash of bitterness....She do carry herself well though.

[@twistoffate4791]

Wow, she was in The Paper Chase, one of my favorite movies, yet I didn't recognize her as the character she played in it. Now I gotta watch it again.

[@tigermoon44]

Too bad she had to put her sister down, especially regarding her book. They both told their versions of the same life they lived together. I'm sure Mamma was a mess and that didn't help.

[@aeichler]

June saw everything as tragic, while Gypsy saw the humor. June's two books, as well as her play "Marathon '33," are all dramatic and a little depressing. Gypsy's book, along with the musical based on it, have very funny moments mixed in with the serious.

[@tigermoon44]

Thank you Alan!

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

"Nobody laughs at me, because I laugh first -- at me. Me... from Seattle. Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you've kept reminding me my whole life." :-)

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

*"I'm sure Mamma was a mess"* That's an understatement! She attempted to kill the chorus boy that eloped with June.

[@ozvoyager]

She was a psychopath. Recent biographies suggest she killed at least two people, possibly more.

[@maryannedelaney]

I never heard of this woman before. It was interesting to see how she consistently turned the conversation back to her when Dinah asked her about Gypsy. But she talked about her dancing and her life, so I guess she was a dancer.

[@MrCrowebobby]

She was a child star and, later, a successful actress.

[@ivoneray1472]

I felt the same way. However she did it gracefully. It must be awkward to be invited for an interview and then be asked more questions about your sibling.

[@arthurpeck2088]

I remember her in Can't Stop the Music too

[@TheMrssanderson]

June is beautiful!

[@ManagerGuy1]

Ann Jillian played June Havoc in the great movie, “GYPSY” in the Dainty June” role. Ann was great doing Junes dancing and acting! The great Natalie Wood played the Gypsy role. Karl Malden. Who played Mama Rose in the film? Was it Rosalind Russell? I know Ethel Merman played “Gypsy” on stage but not in the film.

[@chrisgoode37]

Rosalyn Russell

[@positiveparentingwithgrann8261]

She was soooo pretty. Just finished gypsys memoir and was so happy to read how gypsy n June were pretty close throughout their lives. Impressive.

[@Csmale]

What a great movie she was in with Gene Nelson and Gordon Macrae: "The daughter of Rosie O'Grady." Gene Nelson was a great dancer in this movie, one of the best in Hollywood.

[@SilverGram]

Interesting interview.

[@danielbisson8032]

LOVED DINAH SHORE SHOW

[@Dianaemanuel]

I would love to see any footage of Havoc in the National Tour of Sweeney Todd.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

June looked good!

[@tvishajain1851]

You know what I really don't appreciate this was nine years after her sister died of cancer.

[@randysills4418]

I think that she lived to be 97, if my memory is correct...

[@brockmeeks1695]

She really knows how to do this. With eases. She should. She was at it for the better part of the Twentieth Century.

[@onemercilessming1342]

When this aired, Gypsy Rose Lee, June's sister, had been dead about a year. It would have been nice if they had been interviewed together.

[@dawnehelene59]

Wrong. Gypsy Rose Lee died of lung cancer in 1970, nine years earlier.

[@XX-gy7ue]

this is great

[@simba30]

She is so beautiful

[@Dory8]

Heartbreaking.

[@barbarellagb]

I never had a stage mom but my mother helped me conquer insecurities so I could perform on stage. Ah, Barbie, you can do it, just put your mind to it.

[@XX-gy7ue]

BRILLIANT

[@Jossette888]

The golden child always hates the scapegoat. Poor Gypsy. :(

[@cattycorner8]

All you folks are saying that because the only side of the story you know is the Natalie Wood movie.

[@antoniod]

Turn off the stabilizer.

[@aeichler]

Done. It will take a few minutes. I've learned not to use their stabilizer program any longer.

[@antoniod]

Thang You.

[@tonygilder7912]

when stars had class even strippers

[@GypsyFairy85]

June didn't strip.

[@johnstirret5021]

Actualy she did strip but only for a short time, Her sister got her into it.

[@PodiatricRFA]

"Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the Sun in all its powerful intensity." - June Havoc It would have been better if June had never been born, then to spend eternity conscious inside of the Sun.

[@janeleekeller]

Should have stuck with June ! No interest in the "OTHERS"‼️ JaneLee 🕊️ - in Suburban Philadelphia 7/1/21

[@heathervelasco5159]

Hmmm. Fable. I wonder

[@mikelollar3157]

This interview is gobbledygook - no context, no point and no direction. What's the point?

[@cmcb09]

2conquer kind of Dinah's shtick, sweet loving down-home everyone adored her.

[@ozvoyager]

Dinah's show was just her chatting to friends about whatever interested her. And occasionally getting to perform. I don't think she was much interested in the audience .

[@cattycorner8]

@@cmcb09 Including the audience. Her show was very popular.

[@cattycorner8]

@@ozvoyager Her show was so popular because it was relaxed, we LIKED it the way it was.

[@ziggy33399]

I loved this interview.

[@benfisher1376]

She seems a bit crazy