June Walker June Walker June Walker (June 14, 1900 – February 3, 1966) was an American stage and film actress. She appeared on Broadway in such plays as "Green Grow the Lilacs", "The Farmer Takes a Wife", and "Twelfth Night". She was the first actress to portray the character of Lorelei Lee, in the 1926 Broadway production of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". She played Linda Loman to Thomas Mitchell's Willy in the 1949 touring company of "Death of a Salesman". She toured as Vinnie in "Life with Father" In 1926, she married British actor Geoffrey Kerr (born January 26, 1895 — died July
Dustin Hoffman and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff." Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman "has been obsessed with the play" throughout his career: "For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest." For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it: Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, Lee J. Cobb, and remembers seeing his stage performance: "I'll never forget that period in my life. It was so