Hollywood or Bust! - Wilkinson, June

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Résumé :
Stage and screen actress June Wilkinson, born in England in 1940, pulls back the curtain on her long career and tells it like it was. She began as a teenager performing at the famed London Windmill Theater, her American debut in Playboy Magazine, and her successful American film and stage career. With exceptional candor, June relates the unvarnished story behind her appearances in Playboy Magazine, her successful film and stage stardom in America, the many men in her life, her failed marriage to Houston quarterback Dan Pastorini, to the many films and stage stars she worked with. Wilkinson appeared in such films La Rabia, The Rage, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, Career Girl, Weed Keeton's Cops, Weed, Too Late Blues, and many others. Her TV appearances included 77 Sunset Strip Batman, The Doris Day show, Hellzapoppin', and she co-produced and hosted the Starz/Encore series The Directors. As a successful stage actress, June was the female lead in such famous plays Pajama Tops, Three in a Bedroom, The Ninety-Day Mistress, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? The Marriage-Go-Round, Come Blow Your Horn and Norman, Is That You? In 1999 Playboy published its list of the 100 Sexiest Stars of the Century, and June was #30. To this day, she remains one of the most photographed women in the world.

Biographie:
June Wilkinson began her career as a stage performer at the age of twelve and became the youngest dancer at the age of fifteen at the Windmill Theater in London. In 1958, June appeared in Playboy magazine. After that, she became the most popular cheesecake model in the country.June made her screen debut on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip in 1958. In 1960, she appeared as Joan in the movie Career Girl, as well as starring in a number of other films throughout her career. In 1961 Wilkinson made several stage appearances on the U.S. West coast with performers such as Louis Jourdan in The Marriage-Go-Round, Sylvia Sidney in Come Blow Your Horncand Milton Berle in Norman, Is That You?And appeared in John Cassavetes' 1962 film, Too Late Blues. In 1975 she Starred in The Florida Connection opposite her then husband Dan Pastorini, the former quarterback for the HoustonO Oilers.June is one of the most photographed models of her era and was featured in over fifty magazines and newspapers from 1958 to 1970.