June Blair(1932-2022)

June Blair was a San Francisco-born model who provided eye candy in a few 1950s and 60s films and early TV episodes, often cast as chorines or good time girls. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1957 and also featured as a pin-up in other men's magazines such as Tiger and Nugget. June got her start on Jimmy Durante's TV show which then led to several small parts in movies. Her first credited role of note was in Hell Bound (1957), a minor film noir with June as the female lead opposite John Russell and Stuart Whitman. After that, she had supporting roles in a low-budget western (Lone Texan (1959)) and, as one of a trio of nubile ladies vying for the affections of jungle island castaways Jeff Richards and John Smith in the exotic trifle that was Island of Lost Women (1959). Able to get a release from her contract with 20thCentury Fox, who, she felt, were doing nothing to further her career, June moved on to Screen Gems to appear as guest star in classic television serials like The Texan (1958) and Sea Hunt (1958). She had two further movie roles which merit a mention: as Ernest Borgnine's (albeit peripheral) daughter Judy in The Rabbit Trap (1959) and as a murder victim in the courtroom drama A Fever in the Blood (1961).

Though at one time engaged to singer Nino Tempo, June ended up tying the knot with actor David Nelson. She went on to play his on-screen wife in 28 episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952). After her departure from show business in 1966, she devoted her time to family life and painting.