Theater and TV actress June Walker (not to be confused with the earlier Broadway actress of the same name), 97, died at her Westport, Conn., home on July 8. Walker made her Broadway debut in Olsen and Johnson’s Laffing Room Only (1944). She also appeared on- and off-Broadway in The Girls Against the Boys, Guys & Dolls, Little Me, Bells Are Ringing, Mame, and Oklahoma! She showed up as a guest on the TV shows of Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, and Jack Paar. Walker wrote or cowrote such musicals as 45 Minutes from Broadway, All American, and The Dream on Royal Street, and the book How to Make It in Showbiz: A Survival Kit. She and actor, composer, and lyricist David Rogers were married for 50 years until his death in 2013. A longtime Westport resident, she belonged to the Theater Artists Workshop.
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