Posted on 06/25/2025 6:11:40 AM PDT by DFG
Today we wish June Lockhart, the veteran actress and television icon a Happy 100th Birthday!
Naturally, we immediately think of June Lockhart for her roles as TV mothers. First there was Ruth Martin in Lassie, young Timmy’s (Jon Provost) Mom from 1958 to 1964. Ms. Lockhart replaced Cloris Leachman (who in turn replaced Jan Clayton). Then there was Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, mother to Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright) and Will (Bill Mumy) from 1965 to 1968. And, finally, Janet Craig, the surrogate Mom of sorts to Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae), Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) and Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) following the passing of Bea Benaderet in rural-themed sitcom Petticoat Junction from 1968 to 1970.
But let’s go back to the beginning when June Lockhart made her film debut at age 13 opposite her parents - Gene and Kathleen Lockhart - in a film version of A Christmas Carol in 1938. Numerous other films followed in her teen years, including All This, and Heaven Too (1940), Adam Had Four Sons (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Miss Annie Rooney (1942) and the Judy Garland musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). And a glimpse into her future, perhaps, came in 1945 in The Son of Lassie.
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Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson! And a very Happy 100th Birthday!
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In 1958 I lived in West Whittier, across from a large vacant lot that became Sorensen Park the next year. Later, I moved to College Heights, above Whittier College, and now I live in North Orange County, about two miles from East Whittier, so I didn’t move very far away.
Yep
She and her daughter Anne played the same character in the Magnum PI episode “Lest We Forget.” Jose and Mel
Ferrer also played the same character.
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June Lockhart really made her name in television. While she made movies, her talents were underutilized in the film industry.
When invited to a retrospective screening of the film noir “Bury Me Dead,” Lockhart noted that the poster for the film did not feature her as the leading lady, but included Sonia Darrin, a supporting player.
She traded some snide remarks with Jonathan Harris at fan conventions for “Lost in Space.”
Hinshaw’s opened in 1953 and I shopped there regularly—even had a Hinshaw’s charge card. It lasted well into the 1980s.
May God bless her.
Same here. A true beauty! We here in Oz always thought of her as America’s mom. Mrs Apple pie.
Who doesn’t remember the portrait of Ezra Hinshaw on the wall near the escalator. There he was, Ezra Hinshaw, strategically placed for the recognition. IIRC also by the travel agents, and further past them was the hair salon. The lowest level with the china and silverware, when America was like that.
Maybe those doors in the photo go into that area, but it’s kind of been a while so who knows what got scrambled up in these ancient memories.
All I know is that Hinshaw’s deserves a place in the World to Come.
I was thinking the same thing.
I never knew that but you're right. I remember his face.
My Mom had a Hinshaws credit card circa 1959, it was made of thin card board and her name was typed on it with a typewriter. First credit card I ever saw.
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