- Suffered a fatal heart attack while watching a performance of the Broadway play "The Squall" at the old 48th St. Theater with her mother. The performance came to a halt when Mathis suddenly screamed out, "Oh, mother, I'm dying." She was carried out to the theater alley, where she was pronounced dead.
- One of the highest paid executives in Hollywood while she was alive.
- Discovered Rudolph Valentino.
- Enjoyed writing comedies though she is more known for her dramatic films.
- Did not actually edit Erich von Stroheim's masterpiece Greed (1924) from ten hours to 2-1/2. She was instructed by Metro to cut the film and left a memo about the matter to a regular editor, Joseph Farnham, who did the actual cutting. Mathis had worked with Stroheim before and admired the themes in his work.
- Was a Spiritualist.
- Was voted the third most important woman in Hollywood by AMPAS in 1926. Only Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge outranked her.
- In 2009 the first in-depth biography on June Mathis was published by Hala Pickford in "Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon".
- Mathis was the screenwriter of several of Rudolf Valentino's biggest box office successes, and considered him a close friend. When Valentino died unexpectedly in August of 1926 and could not afford burial accommodations in Hollywood, she "lent" him the crypt meant for her husband. Nearly a century later, Valentino remains in that borrowed crypt, and is still between Mathis and her husband - likely for all eternity.
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