June MacCloy

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia June MacCloy June 2 1909 May 5 2005 was an American actress and singer in the 1930s and 1940s Born in Sturgis Michigan MacCloy moved to Toledo Ohio as a child Signed by Paramount Pictures in 1930 she was loaned out to United Artists for her first feature Reaching for the Moon film 1931 starring Bebe Daniels Douglas Fairbanks Sr Edward Everett Horton and Claud Allister She plays Kitty Bebe Daniels flirtatious best friend The director Edmund Goulding was casting another Fairbanks film when he heard about MacCloy and wired her to come and test Her first Paramount film was June Moon released March 21 1931 based on the play by George S Kaufman and Ring Lardner Subsequently MacCloy appeared in a variety of shorts and some features with stars such as Jack Oakie Frances Dee and ZaSu Pitts With costars Gertrude Short and Marion Shilling she made a series of shorts for RKOPathé called The Gay Girls One of her directors was the then disgraced Fatty Arbuckle She costarred with Leon Errol in the second full Technicolor film Good Morning Eve 1934 released just after another Leon Errol short Service With a Smile 1934 MacCloy is probably best remembered today for her last major film role in Go West 1940 starring the Marx Brothers