June Wilkinson

Born: 1940-03-27

The British-born stunner was born on March 27, 1940 in Essex, England. Initially trained in dance (Sussex School of Dancing) to become a ballerina, she was performing on stage from age 12. The one-time brunette began as a topless dancer at age 15 and joined the legendary Windmill Theatre in London as a fan dancer in 1957. Discovered by Hugh Hefner within a short time, June came to America and first appeared in Playboy magazine in September 1958. Hefner rather unimaginatively but appropriately dubbed her "The Bosom." The tag stuck and enhanced her eventual transformation from a stunning brunette to platinum blonde in 1960. A sensation on the pages of Playboy, she appeared again in both August 1959 and November 1960, and in several other issues over the years, although she would never become an official "Playmate." Under contract to Seven Arts, her attempt at movie stardom. After being unbilled in such lowgrade films as Thunder in the Sun (1959) and Mr. Tease and His Playthings (1959), she was showcased in Career Girl (1960), the tale of a girl trying to make it in Hollywood. Subsequent romps in "Golden Age" turkeys like The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960), Macumba Love (1960) (her best known), and The Continental Twist (1961) sealed her fate as a serious movie actress. June, however, kept her name alive throughout the 1960s and 1970s in nightclubs, and on the live stage in such sex comedy teasers as "Three in a Bedroom," "The Ninety-Day Mistress" and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" via the dinner theater and Las Vegas hotel circuits. Her most successful vehicle was in "Pajama Tops," a show which amplified her still-gorgeous figure as well as her comedy timing. She returned to this well-received show quite frequently for decades and took it briefly to Broadway in 1963. She also appeared glamorously in such TV shows as "Batman," as the villainess Evilina, and "The Doris Day Show." In 1972, June married Dan Pastorini, the NFL quarterback for the Houston Oilers and L.A. Rams, who was known for his playboy-like reputation. He sometimes appeared as an actor in films and TV, and the couple appeared together in the film The Florida Connection (1976). They had a daughter, Brahna, before divorcing ten years later. A savvy, health-conscious businesswoman, her later projects have included running a successful string of fitness centers in Canada, hosting the Encore cable show "The Directors" in which she interviews filmmakers, and a historical fashion show called "Glamour's First 5000 Years." June recently made a rare film appearance in the low-budget western Three Bad Men (2005) with George Kennedy.


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Lover Come Back

as Sigrid Freud - Stripper on Standee
Released: 1961-12-20

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each...

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Too Late Blues

as Shirley (Uncredited)
Released: 1961-11-01

Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in...

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The Bellboy and the Playgirls

as Madame Wimpepoole
Released: 1962-02-12

The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The...

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The Immoral Mr. Teas

as Nude in Window (uncredited)
Released: 1959-05-22

Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters...

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The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

as Saturday
Released: 1960-01-20

A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.

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Hollywood Blue

as uncredited
Released: 1970-11-18

A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and...

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The Candidate

as Angela Wallace
Released: 1964-10-07

Samantha, a hard working modern woman who, because of a chance encounter with senatorial...

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The Continental Twist

as Jenny Watson
Released: 1961-12-12

Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub...

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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

as Mrs. Cromwell
Released: 1986-01-01

Gino, a bank executive is not having a good day. After giving birth to their eighth child, his...

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Three Bad Men

as Billie
Released: 2005-01-15

Three outlaws on there way across state lines after a bank robbery, decide to fufill a dying...

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Keaton's Cop

as Sandra Channing / Big Mama
Released: 1990-03-09

Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob...

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Talking Walls

as Blonde
Released: 1987-08-01

A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a...

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Macumba Love

as Sara
Released: 1960-06-01

A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo...

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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

as Randy
Released: 1984-01-01

The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family...

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The Florida Connection

as Britt Claiborne
Released: 1975-11-21

Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a...

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Sno-Line

as Audrey
Released: 1985-09-13

A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob...

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Career Girl

as Joan
Released: 1960-05-01

Young attractive blonde arrives in Hollywood looking for a career in the movies.

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Batman

as Evelina
First aired: 1966-01-12

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...

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