In an article by Laura Wagner for Films of the Golden Age, Issue #79, Winter 2014/2015, June was extremely intimidated by and felt out of place with the genius of her husband and his intellectual circle of friends, including
Robert Benchley,
Dorothy Parker and
George S. Kaufman. When she complained to Oscar begging him to hang out with their more "ordinary" friends, he instead bought her books and scolded her for wanting to be "a baby doll" all her life.