June Storey Death
Mary passed away on December 18, 1991 at the age of 73 in Vista, California, USA. Mary's cause of death was cancer.
When did June Storey die?
December 18, 1991How did June Storey die? What was the cause of death?
CancerHow old was June Storey when died?
73Where did June Storey die? What was the location of death?
Vista, California, USA
June Storey Birthday and Date of Death
June Storey was born on April 20, 1918 and died on December 18, 1991. Mary was 73 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: April 20, 1918
Date of Death: December 18, 1991
Age at Death: 73
June Storey - Biography
June StoreyActive - 1934 - 1949 | Born - Apr 20, 1918 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Died - Dec 18, 1991 in Vista, CA | Genres - Drama, Western, Crime, Musical, RomanceBiography by Hans J. Wollstein [-]Blonde, dimpled, and vivacious, June Storey became the perfect leading lady for cowboy troubadour Gene Autry, opposite whom she starred in no less than ten singing Westerns. In the U.S. since the age of five, the Canadian-born starlet was awarded a screen test with Fox (soon to become 20th Century Fox) in 1934, courtesy of an uncle's friendship with production head Winfield Sheehan. Despite a highly inadequate performance, Sheehan liked her pluck and Storey was awarded a player's contract. She didn't do much actual screen work, however, but spent most of her time at Fox studying acting with Florence Enright and taking dancing lessons from Rita Hayworth's father, Eduardo Cansino. A small role as a German girl in Henry King's In Old Chicago (1938) got the attention of low-budget concern Republic Pictures, who saw in the winsome Storey the perfect foil for Gene Autry, the company's biggest draw at the time.Under term contract with Republic from April 21, 1939, through October 20, 1940, Storey managed to squeeze in ten Westerns with Autry and five additional films before the contract was terminated by mutual agreement. In many ways she was the perfect leading lady for Autry: very agreeable to look upon, competent as a performer by then, and willing to work long, hard hours on location. Often there was not even a dressing room available for the heroine; she later stated, "...and I'd have to find a secluded canyon to change into my cowgirl clothes." The films themselves -- from Home on the Range (1939) to Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940) -- included some of Autry's most genial, and Storey became very popular with the genre's target audience of rural moviegoers. But like most performers, she eventually found B-Westerns too limiting, and apart from Columbia's Song of the Prairie (1945), she never did another.Returning to Fox in the late '40s, Storey appeared in non-Western programmers and retired to marry an Oregon rancher. Divorced and the survivor of a near-fatal car accident, she later took up nursing, re-married, and became active in charity work. In her final years, a much heavier but still sparkling June Storey became a treasured guest speaker at various nostalgia and B-Western fairs.
