Editing June Allyson (section)

===Early work===
With the death of her stepfather and a bleak future ahead, she left high school midway through her junior year to seek jobs as a dancer. Her first $60-a-week job was as a [[tap dance]]r at the Lido Club in [[Montreal]]. Returning to New York City, she found work as an actress in [[Short film|movie short subjects]] filmed by [[Educational Pictures]] at its [[Astoria, Queens]] NY studio.<ref name="Parish and Pitts, p. 3.">Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 3.</ref>

Fiercely ambitious, Allyson tried her hand at modeling, but to her consternation became the "sad-looking before part" in a before-and-after bathing suit magazine ad.<ref>Allyson and Leighton 1982, p. 11.</ref>