Miss June Lockhart

Shirley Jones???

[quote]Shirley Jones???

June could have done Elmer Gantry and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, two roles that went to Shirley Jones.

June won a Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer. None of the other actresses you list can lay claim to a Tony.

June Lockhart will ALWAYS be Maureen Robinson.

[quote]June won a Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by a Newcomer. None of the other actresses you list can lay claim to a Tony.

Damn it, I tried with Minnie's Boys. At least I got a cast recording out of it.

Wasn't there some parody movie where she showed up with a group of other TV mothers like those from Happy Days and Brady Bunch?

She had a really great rack, IIRC.

I can’t even picture her face - and I know a lot about old movies.

Didn’t she have more success in TV, later?

From the Lost In Space years.

Beneficiary of nepotism: dad Gene was a prominent character actor.

She was a total bitch to work with.

She was basically a TV actress. June Lockhart was the lead in two successful TV series. She was in movies with Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Gary Cooper. She appeared in TV episodes in series as diverse as Perry Mason, Wagon Train, The Man from UNCLE, Happy Days, Bewitched, Roseanne and Grey's Anatomy.

Donna Reed would be envious if she wasn't dead.

Here's that lady MD, she's as pretty as can be...

[quote]She was a total bitch to work with. —Lassie

You didn't have to interact with her beyond what your trainer made you do.

June, looking slutty as only she can

June just turned 94.

Who knows how many she had to blow in order to claw her way to the top?

She did seem vanilla, vanilla was the only flavor offered on tv when it was intentionally bland and inoffensive. But June was willing to play counter to her vanilla image, in later appearances of movies such as "Strange Invaders" and "Troll."

Well, she probably would have become a studio contract player like her parents if the studio system had remained intact... She will always be Lassie's mom to me...

Why did she have to do those Depends commercials?

Depends and Lassie are the two things that come to mind when I see her name.

[quote]June just turned 94.

Just a child.

r20 r21 Depends was June Allyson, you fat stupid whores!

They offered me the Depends commercials first. Only one problem, I don't shit my pants!

Esther Williams, Rose Marie, Carol Channing, Julie Newmar, Tippi Hedren, Florence Henderson and June Lockhart

Miss? This is the twenty-first century.

Worst gag reflex in Hollywood.

[quote]Esther Williams, Rose Marie, Carol Channing, Julie Newmar, Tippi Hedren, Florence Henderson and June Lockhart

Why is June dressed like a 1920s gangster? Those spats do her no favors.

[quote]Miss? This is the twenty-first century.

You always call old ladies "Miss" you big dummy.

She was shacking up with the Jesus of either Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar during the run of Petticoat Junction. She was one hip, hot and happenin' mama.

[quote]She was shacking up with the Jesus of either Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar

I guess that's what turned Victor Garber gay?

R25 Lordy, Miss Julie Newmayer is a giantess.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVx4VQ0BgzD/?taken-by=moomeb

I hope OP didn't jinx her by starting this thread. Datalounge has an ominous rep on this.

R24, They offered it to me first but Gary wouldn't let me do it.

It was an episode of Roseanne R6 and it was hysterical.

No, she was Leon's mother in the Leon gets married show.

Billy Mumy has said in interviews that June was a "rock chick" who was his first musical introduction to David Bowie and the Allman Brothers. I think he said the Allmans played at one of her house parties.

She's pretty funny — years ago there was some fan interview where they brought up Dr. Smith being gay and she laughed her head off in agreement.

Someone said on a recent thread that on the old Virginia Graham show, Virginia went off on a homophobic rant but June stood up for the gays.

I heard she jumped on Don in the Jupiter two and had her way with him. Now I called that lucky!

R38, there was no David Bowie or Allman Brothers when Billy Mumy worked with June Lockhart, you idiot.

R41 - from Bill Mumy's Instagram officialbillmumy -

"That time back in 1967 when Angela Cartwright and I were hanging out with Duane Allman in the dressing room of the Whiskey A Go Go."

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhKzWUvBJ1g/

Billy Mumy said the Allman Brothers, but he meant Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra.

Billy Mumy said the Allman Brothers, but he meant Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra.

Bill Mumy aged well.

She ruined my show

[quote]there was no David Bowie or Allman Brothers when Billy Mumy worked with June Lockhart, you idiot.

I didn't say it was during "Lost in Space" -- they've maintained a friendship for 50 years.

I wonder if June was as sexually adventurous as Flo Henderson was?

That fucking bitch stole my gig!

I was on a quiz show with her. She was not the friendliest person in the world, pretty stand-offish. Anyway, she was living with 21 yr old Ted Neeley and was trying to look 20 yrs younger, so she caked on the makeup. Of course, the studio lights were very hot, and I noticed that her makeup was cracking. The taping stopped and the makeup people ran to her, one of whom had what looked like a little trowel which he used to smooth in the cracks on her face. I secretly smiled.

[quote]I wonder if June was as sexually adventurous as Flo Henderson was?

Neither one of them could equal me!

[quote]I was on a quiz show with her. She was not the friendliest person in the world, pretty stand-offish.

In her defense, you probably won more in prizes than she earned being on the show.

r51's post brought to you by Vaseline.....

R9- Guy Williams was hot back in the day. Almost as hot as Peter Breck.

June Lockhart and the hot Guy Williams.

On Petticoat Junction.

June made a movie a few years ago called The Remake, which is available on Amazon Prime. She looked good for 90.

She should have played a tough, steely eyed madam in something.

I like her, but never quite got her allure.

[quote]Donna Reed would be envious if she wasn't dead.

Donna Reed was an Oscar winner who was in classic films such as "From Here to Eternity," "It's a Wonderful Life" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." I don't think she would have been very envious of the the third mom on "Lassie."

[quote]I don't think she would have been very envious of the the third mom on "Lassie."

AND she was a replacement on Petticoat Junction. Bea Benedaret had the nerve to up and die and leave the cast without an older mother figure.

On "Petticoat Junction," she had the requisite skill set required at that time for a "lady M.D." She was "as pretty as can be."

I think June should have stopped after the first nose job.

Does anyone else remember June co-hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants with Bob Barker?

She had a daughter named Anne who was BFF with DebraLee Scott.

She starred in a creepy 1965 "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" episode titled "The Second Wife."

Anne was in tge otiginal Battlestar Galactica.

But why the Depends commercials?

June Lockhart was not the spokeswoman for Depends! She was the spokeswoman for Gravy Train, which if a human ate would need Depends.

And she spoke jive.

[quote]And she spoke jive.

That was Barbara Billingsley.

She lost my respect when she trashed Judy in an interview I read about many years ago.

One is a legend and the other is almost forgotten.

[Quote] Many moons ago, when I was in college, a guy I knew's father worked professionally (in the non-oldest sense) with June Lockhart and said she was a nymphomaniac. After hearing that her smile always looked slightly obscene to me, like she'd just polished off a room full of linebackers. I think kingsrow is right.

It's always the quiet ones

Bea Benadaret was a bitch .

R73, instead of weeping here, go to the thread below and elaborate on your sob story.

She demanded to be put in the water tower with the two pretty Bradley sisters and the red - haired one.

But Uncle Joe wisely refused to allow it.

She begged to be in my superior movie version but I just laughed at her untalented ass

[quote]Bea Benadaret was a bitch . —Nancy Kulp

Now Nancy, you're just mad because when Bea appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies, she got a better screen credit than you did and "out character actressed" your performance.

In an interview, she said that Edgar Buchanan would tell "the filthiest jokes" right before a scene started and they would have to try not to laugh during their take (i.e. he was an old lech). She also said that she used to laugh because, although Buchanan had been a dentist in a previous career, Lockhart said he himself had the absolute worst teeth.

I couldn't believe they hired some nympho to replace me as Ruth Martin.

So did fucking around so much cause her to become incontinent? Is that why she became a Depends spokeswoman?

Actually, Nancy's been pissed at Bea for years because Bea wouldn't let her have a quick lick.

Bea was the original Lisa Douglas

r85

Bea pretty much was the original every lady in radio

r82 Fuck you, Cloris!

June Is still alive but is there any word or rumours on her state of health and how well she is doing?

Who was she? She looks like the mean girl from Little Prairie House. Was that June?

She was a B actress who hung in there forever, and made a name for herself in the early days of television.

Fairly generic, which is what the public wanted in a mom on TV.

[quote]Fairly generic, which is what the public wanted in a mom on TV.

If she had the neck to carry a string of pearls, she could have played the mother on Leave It To Beaver. But she always lacked a certain amount of femininity. That's why they dressed her in flannel and put her with Lassie.

She thought she was the star of MY SHOW

We all knew it was my show, Billy.

[quote]We all knew it was my show, Billy. —Robot

We all knew that since I was the first tv homosexualist, that it was my show.

[quote]We all knew that since I was the first tv homosexualist

Excuse me?

None of you gays watched the show for anything but me

I agree, Mark Goddard was beautiful.

"Oh John, you can't! It's much too dangerous!"

She will always be known as "Lassie's Mother".

June and Guy must have been pissed off that their show was stolen by Will, the Robot and ...Special Guest Star Jonathan Harris.

She was totally miscast on Petticoat Junction.

Miscast? As a lady so generic that her only personality trait was that she sometimes wore a stethoscope? Seems like the role she was born to play!

But she was a lady M.D. who was as pretty as can be!

It was a shame because during the first (and best) season of "Lost in Space," the women actually had pretty substantial roles. But after that, it was all downhill for them as they were reduced to glorified extras.

[quote]She lost my respect when she trashed Judy in an interview I read about many years ago. One is a legend and the other is almost forgotten.

I should never have given the bitch my dance card.

June and Guy Williams laughed so hard at the situations they were put into while doing an episode in the last season of LOST IN SPACE that producer Irwin Allen wrote them OUT of the last two episodes.....costing them their salaries.....

Her daughter Anne was in the tour of HAIR and June hung out with the kids and smoked the reefer.

June always knew the importance of good dental hygiene.

[quote]June and Guy Williams laughed so hard at the situations they were put into while doing an episode in the last season of LOST IN SPACE that producer Irwin Allen wrote them OUT of the last two episodes.....costing them their salaries.....

What was so funny about the situations on "Lost in Space"?

She was happy to leave Lassie as I recall---it was a rather thankless role, playing an unglamorous second fiddle to a boy and his dog, and Lassie, of course, was the real hero of the show. She was hoping that Lost in Space would get the audience to look at her in a different way in those tight silver lame outfits. Unfortunately Dr Smith, Will, and the robot became the stars and she was lucky to get dog food commercials and that thankless out of place role on Petticoat Junction. On her occasional tv talk show appearances, I got the impression that she was rather eccentric--driving an antique fire truck, being married by a rabbi even though she and her husband weren't Jewish, those kinds of things. As an actress, she was pretty forgettable. I don't think she could sing like Shirley Jones and she lacked Donna Reed's usually untapped intelligence and proto-cool blond demeanor. And Shelly Winters actually could act and was probably even more of a world class eccentric and nymphomaniac. BTW, from what I could find online, she wasn't living with Ted Neely--it was someone else, possibly the son of James Mason, who would have been 30 years younger and sounds like he is /was a bit crazy.

She could drive the hell out of that Dodge pickup truck in LASSIE...when she got behind the wheel to deliver her eggs to the neighbors.

I don't think leaving "Lassie" was her choice. Jon Provost was aging out of his role, as Tommy Rettig had done in the first version of the series. (Also, George "Gramps" Cleveland had inconveniently died.) Lassie's next owner would be a forest ranger played by Robert Bray (the bus driver in "Bus Stop").

I was glad to find this thread, to clarify a childhood memory. I remember reading my mom's movie magazines, and there was this scandalous romance between June and some young hippie. I even remember a photo of her with the hippie, and maybe also her teenage kids? Little I was shocked, SHOCKED! Such generational collisions seemed so counterintuitive back then.

Now, was it really the not-yet-famous Ted Neely? Why do I recall the name "Robert"?

Funny, the things you remember.....and the things you don't.

I want to know the identity of June's toy boy just to see if he meets DL standards of masculine beauty.

[quote]Funny, the things you remember.....and the things you don't.

Nice to hear from you, Karen.

I remember reading in a gossip column in the late '60s that June had become the "den mother" to the Los Angeles company of "Hair." (Funny, the things you remember.) I was a young teenager at the time, but still it struck me as a rather sad attempt on her part to remain "relevant" (an important attribute at the time).

I've always assumed June was the only actress to play Timmy's mother. But did she take over for Cloris Leachman, or was Cloris an in-between character sandwiched between the Jeff years and the Timmy years? I can't picture Cloris being fired for not being good enough.

Before Jan Clayton (the original Julie Jordan in "Carousel") and Tommy Rettig left the series, Jon Provost had already joined the cast as Timmy, an orphan who comes to live on the farm with Ellen and Jeff Miller. The plan was to introduce Timmy into the series gradually. When George Cleveland, who played Gramps, died suddenly, the Millers' exit was speeded up. Gramps' death was written into Clayton and Rettigs' final episode. By that time, Rettig was 15 and wanted to play more mature roles, and Jan Clayton wanted to return to musical theater. Ellen Miller sold the farm to Ruth and Paul Martin, played by Cloris Leachman and Jon Sheppod. The Martins end up adopting Timmy. Because Ellen and Jeff are moving to "the city," Jeff decides that Lassie should stay with Timmy. Leachman and Shepodd played the Martins for one season. The next season, they were replaced by June Lockhart and Hugh Reilly, also playing Ruth and Paul Martin. (It was like Dick Sargent replacing Dick York on "Bewitched." There was no "explanation.") I recall one of the Leachman episodes in which Ruth was having difficulties with Timmy, and Jan Clayton did a guest spot as Ellen Miller, coming to the farm to offer Ruth some parenting advice. I'm not sure why Leachman and Shepodd were replaced. I once read an interview in which Cloris Leachman claimed she was fired because of a remark she had made while she was still on the show that even though "Lassie" was sponsored by the Campbell Soup Co., she never received any free soup.