Editing June Whitfield (section)

==Early life==
June Rosemary Whitfield was born at 44 Mount Ephraim Lane in [[Streatham]], [[London]], in 1925, to John Herbert Whitfield and his wife Bertha Georgina née Flett.<ref name="Museum">{{cite news |url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm |title=Whitfield, June – British Comedy Actor |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |access-date=1 March 2007 |archive-date=7 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207101433/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=whitfield&yearOfDeath=1956&page=3#calendar |title=Find a will &#124; GOV.UK}}</ref> Her father was the managing director of a company called Dictograph Telephones that had been founded by his father in [[Yorkshire]], and both of her parents were keen amateur actors.<ref name=fabulous>{{cite book |date=17 September 2009 |first=June |last=Whitfield |isbn=978-0297855620 |title=June Whitfield At a Glance – An Absolutely Fabulous Life |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson}}</ref> She made her first stage appearance, aged three, after her mother enrolled her at Robinson's Dance Studio.<ref name="Express">{{cite news |title=Glorious June |newspaper=[[Daily Express]] |date=28 July 2007}}</ref> Whitfield attended [[Streatham and Clapham High School|Streatham Hill High School]], before being evacuated during the [[Second World War]] to [[Bognor Regis]], where she attended St Michael's School, and then to [[Penzance]] in [[Cornwall]]. She moved with her parents to [[Huddersfield]], where she learned shorthand and typing. She continued to study secretarial skills at [[Pitman shorthand|Pitman's]] College, [[Brixton Hill]].<ref name=andJune>{{cite book |year=2000 |first=June |last=Whitfield |isbn=0-552-14767-2 |title=...and June Whitfield The autobiography |publisher=Corgi Books}}</ref> In 1944, Whitfield graduated from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] with a diploma.<ref name="Museum"/>