J. Clayworth; Broadway and Film Actress
June Clayworth, a onetime Broadway actress who was introduced to films by Carl Laemmle Jr., son of the founder of Universal studios, and who subsequently appeared in about 20 feature and second-feature pictures, has died.
Her son, Anthony Rogell, said this week she was about 80 when she died Friday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills of liver complications.
Miss Clayworth, widow of film producer Sid Rogell, was a striking brunette who had been on the Broadway stage in “Are You Decent?†and “Torch Song†when Laemmle cast her in the 1935 feature “The Good Fairy.â€
She went on to appear in “Two-Fisted Gentleman,†“Married Before Breakfast,†“Between Two Women,†“Live, Love and Learn,†“The Truth About Murder,†“Dick Tracy and Gruesome†and “The Marriage Go Round.â€
One of her better-known appearances was as Claude Rains’ wife in “The White Tower,†a 1950 adventure drama about a group of misfits trying to scale a summit in the Swiss Alps. It was produced by her husband, who died in 1973.
Contributions in her name may be made to the Motion Picture Fund.
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