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Bupp Filmology Classic and B Movies of 1929 to 1943

1997

June

June (left) in “Border Vengeance” June never liked to talk about her movie career and her family was not able to help me with information about her time in the movie business. June was the first of the Bupp children to get into the movies. When she was eighteen years old, her family made their way to California. June was a very beautiful woman and someone suggested that she should audition for a movie. She eventually landed a part in Hal Roach’s “The Boy Friends,” a series described as “Our Gang grown up”. George Stevens directed the Boy Friends series, but Anthony Mack replaced him by the time June started. The series stopped in mid-1932 because it was not a financial success. The leading stars were Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman and Edgar Kennedy. Tragedy followed in 1933. An auto-accident, nearly causing the loss of an arm kept her out of the movies for a year. Although her career was short, it was the stepping-stone for the younger Bupp children. She told me her reason for leaving the industry was the “casting couch,” something she would not tolerate. The only full-length movie on record for June is Border Vengeance (1935), starring Reb Russell. This was a western where June had a speaking part. An "Announcement Card" that I found has June Bupp listed as an actress, but the screen credit lists her as June Brewster. She was also known as June Gilson. She told me she never used her own name, but wouldn't tell me the stage names she used. I was lucky to find the announcement card because she told me she didn't make any movies after 1933. June was born on November 12, 1913. She married Marion Varner on December 31,1934. June and Marion raised two sons, Jay and Malcolm. Back