June Caprice (born Helen Elizabeth Lawson, November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936) was an American silent film actress.

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Monday, June 13, 2022. 13:00.

June Caprice - Actress.

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1. About :



Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson, November 19, 1895, Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died November 9, 1936 (aged 40), Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Other names The Vamp

Years active 1916–1921

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Spouse(s) -  Harry F. Millarde (m.1923–1931, his death)

Children -               Toni Seven

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2. Introduction :



June Caprice (born Helen Elizabeth Lawson, November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936) was an American silent film actress.

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Early life and career :



Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson in Arlington, Massachusetts, Caprice was educated in Boston.

She began her acting career in live theatre and in 1916 signed with the Fox Film Corporation. In 1916 William Fox searched to find a "second Mary Pickford." By the summer of that year he believed he had located the woman he predicted would be the best known female on the screen within six months time. The 1916 press release claimed both that she was a 17-year-old teenager, and in the same press release "just a little over 17 years of age." Her obituary in 1936 listed her age as 40, making her about 20 years of age at her discovery.



Caprice's screen debut came in Caprice of the Mountains (1916). A New York Times film critic said of her, "she is young, pretty, graceful, petite, with an eloquence of gesture that augurs a bright future in the movies." Adopting the stage name June Caprice, she made sixteen films for Fox, half of which were directed by Harry F. Millarde. The two began a personal relationship and eventually married.

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Retirement :



She left the film business to begin a family, giving birth to a daughter June Elizabeth Millarde in 1922. It is believed she returned to working on stage and modeling, appearing on 1920s Coca-Cola company calendars holding a fountain glass of Coke. In 1931 her husband died at the age of forty-six. Caprice died five years later from a heart attack in Los Angeles. She had been suffering from cancer. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.



Caprice's daughter was fourteen years old when orphaned and was raised by her grandparents on Long Island, New York. June Millarde became a cover girl known as Toni Seven. She was the heiress to an estimated $3,000,000 fortune.

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Filmography :



Film credits of June Caprice

Year Title Role Studio/Distributor Ref(s)


1916 The Ragged Princess Alicia Jones Fox Film 

1916 Caprice of the Mountains Caprice Talbert Fox Film 

1916 Little Miss Happiness Lucy White Fox Film 

1916 The Mischief Maker Effie Marchand Fox Film 



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1917 The Small Town Girl June Fox Film 

1917 A Child of the Wild June Griest Fox Film 

1917 Patsy Patsy Prim Fox Film 

1917 Miss U.S.A. June Fox Film 

1917 Every Girl's Dream Gretchen Fox Film 

1917 A Modern Cinderella Joyce Fox Film 

1917 The Sunshine Maid (unknown) Fox Film 

1917 Unknown 274 Dora , in later life Fox Film 



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1918 A Camouflage Kiss Martha Thorne Fox Film 

1918 Blue-Eyed Mary Mary Du Bois Fox Film 

1918 The Heart of Romance Eloise Jackson Fox Film 

1918 Miss Innocence Dolores May Fox Film 



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1919 A Damsel in Distress Maud Marsh Albert Capellani Productions, Inc. 

1919 Oh, Boy! Lou Ellen Carter Albert Capellani Productions, Inc. 

1919 The Love Cheat Louise Gordon Albert Capellani Productions, Inc. 

1920 Rogues and Romance feature-length version of Pirate Gold Sylvia Lee George B. Seitz Productions 

1920 In Walked Mary Mary Ann Hubbard Albert Capellani Productions, Inc. 


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1921 The Sky Ranger June Elliott George B. Seitz Productions 

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