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The actress was just 22 years old when she won a Tony for Best Performance by a Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Broadway play &34;For Love or Money.&34; June
The actress was just 22 years old when she won a Tony for Best Performance by a Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Broadway play "For Love or Money."
June Lockhart, Lassie and *Lost in Space *star, dies at 100
The actress was just 22 years old when she won a Tony for Best Performance by a Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Broadway play "For Love or Money."
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June Lockhart, the veteran Hollywood star famous for projects like *Lassie* and *Lost in Space*, has died. She was 100.
Publicist Harlan Boll announced that the actress, who also had big roles in films like *Meet Me in St. Louis* and *Sergeant York*, died on Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif., from natural causes. A more specific cause of death was not immediately available.
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Billy Mumy and June Lockhart on 'Lost in Space'.
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Born in New York City in 1925 — two years before the advent of synced sound in film — Lockhart was a second-generation actor. Her father, Gene Lockhart, was a prolific stage actor who taught at Juilliard and was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting performance in 1938's *Algiers*, while her mother, Kathleen Lockhart, starred in films like *Lady in the Lake* and *The Glenn Miller Story*.
June Lockhart began her acting career as a young child, making her stage debut at age 8 in a 1933 production of *Peter Ibbetson* at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. Her first film appearance came in 1938's *A Christmas Carol*, which also starred her real-life parents as the Cratchits.
Lockhart costarred with Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien in 1944's legendary movie musical *Meet Me in St. Louis*, which received five Oscar nominations. She played Gary Cooper's sister in Howard Hawks' *Sergeant York* and acted opposite Bette Davis in *All This, and Heaven Too*. She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Newcomer for her part in Broadway's *For Love or Money* in 1947.
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Lockhart's best-known projects were a pair of iconic midcentury TV shows: *Lassie*, in which she played the maternal role of Ruth Martin after Cloris Leachman left the part, and *Lost in Space*, in which she portrayed the matriarch Dr. Maureen Robinson.
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June Lockhart in 2015.
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