June Fairchild

June Fairchild was an American dancer and actress who got her start in 1965 as a member of the Gazzarri Dancers, the troupe on the syndicated variety program Hollywood A Go-Go, hired after the show's executive producer Al Burton recruited her; she stayed until the final episode in February 1966. Born in Manhattan Beach, California, the daughter of a gospel songwriter, she had studied at El Camino College, where she played Arthur in a 1965 production of Shakespeare's King John. With fellow dancer Mimi Machu she devised the Statue dance, a fad in which dancers held poses before switching to new ones. She went on to appear in more than a dozen films, among them Head (1968), Drive, He Said (1971), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), as well as the Cheech and Chong comedy Up in Smoke (1978). Fairchild died in 2015.