![]() ![]() A film noir world, inhabited by a cast of misfits, gangsters, and lowlifes, where no one played it straight. And some just don’t like the sound of their own voice. Many were dead, others had long disappeared. Maybe the way she lived would reveal the way she died. Maybe the clue was somewhere in her short life. A key that would unlock the truth behind the mystery. Or was her death just an accident? Bad place, bad time. Other reports say she was the target of gangland hit, someone wanted her wiped out. Sounds like something that her film character, Junkyard Sal, might have done. She stood in front of the guy to protect him, and took the bullet.” Jimmy McDonough in his biography of Russ Meyer wrote: “June was murdered when a drug dealer was going to shoot her boyfriend. ![]() Each tries to figure out how and why she died. Many accounts of her murder still linger on message boards in dusty corners of cyberspace. And a footnote in a shooting that left her dead. A footnote in L.A., the jaded city where she’d re-invented herself. ![]() A footnote for her family who forgot she existed. She was a footnote in film history after she appeared in a Russ Meyer film, Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. Somehow June Mack was a footnote in her own life. ![]()
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