Margaret Rose Valliket (1913-87) is the mysterious Marie Valli, whose sole credit on IMDb is Madam Satan, playing, quite aptly, Confusion.
Shortly afterwards, she changed her name to June Knight and went on to a successful career on Broadway and, to a lesser extent, in Hollywood. Her one other MGM musical was Broadway Melody of 1936, in which she was the first person to sing ‘I Gotta Feelin’ You’re Foolin’’.
Knight made a habit of launching standards, introducing ‘Just One of Those Things’ and ‘Begin the Beguine’ in Broadway shows. She also sang Cole Porter’s ‘A Picture of Me Without You’, with its memorable couplet “Picture Central Park without a sailor/Picture Mr Lord minus Mr Taylor”.
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