June Wilkinson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3304 |
| Birthday | 1940-03-27 |
| Place of Birth | Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As | June Wilkenson, |
1962
La rabia por dentro
6.333/3
Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a b...
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La rabia por dentro
1959
The Immoral Mr. Teas
4.216/44
A door-to-door salesman of dental appliances encounters beautiful, well-endowed nude women everywhere he goes.
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The Immoral Mr. Teas
1961
The Continental Twist
5.75/4
Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.
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The Continental Twist
2005
Three Bad Men
2.5/4
Three outlaws on there way across state lines after a bank robbery, decide to fufill a dying mans wish. Save his wife from notorious outlaw Dutch Henr...
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Three Bad Men
1970
Hollywood Blue
10/1
A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsreel footage.
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Hollywood Blue
1960
Macumba Love
7.5/2
A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
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Macumba Love
1962
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
3.167/12
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The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1961
Too Late Blues
6.385/48
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His perip...
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Too Late Blues
1960
Career Girl
10/1
Young attractive blonde arrives in Hollywood looking for a career in the movies.
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Career Girl
1960
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
4.25/4
A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.
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The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1984
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
3.042/12
The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1985
Sno-Line
7/2
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there...
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Sno-Line
1964
The Candidate
6.6/5
Samantha, a hard working modern woman who, because of a chance encounter with senatorial candidate Frank Carlton, is offered a job by conniving campai...
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The Candidate
1975
The Florida Connection
5.5/2
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The Florida Connection
1987
Talking Walls
3.538/13
A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a French girl in the process.
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Talking Walls
1986
Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
5/2
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Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter
1990
Keaton's Cop
4.429/7
Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gabl...
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1961
Lover Come Back
6.967/165
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out...
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