Published:
July 19, 2006 at 9:43 PM
NASHVILLE, July
19 (UPI) -- June Carr Ormond, who produced country
music and Christian films in the 1960s through the 1980s, has died
in Nashville at 94.
June Carr was born in 1912 in Reading, Pa., and started as a vaudeville
performer at age 12. When she married Ron Ormond in 1935, the couple
began producing films together, including westerns starring Lash LaRue
and Fuzzy St. John.
In 1965, they made "Forty Acre Feud," a film featuring country singers
Loretta Lynn, George Jones and comedian Minnie Pearl. Other melodramatic
and evangelistic films included "Girl from Tobacco Row," "The Monster
and the Stripper," "The Burning Hell" and "39 Stripes."
June Ormond was often the script supervisor, makeup artist and distributor
for the family Christian film business. She even played the witch
of Endor in the "Grim Reaper" in 1976.
After her husband's death in 1981, she continued to make religious
films with her son Tim, including "The Second Coming" and "The Sacred
Symbol."
