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June Lockhart (June 25, 1925 – October 23, 2025) was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles. Lockhart also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1951, Lockhart married John F. Maloney. They had two daughters, Anne Kathleen and June Elizabeth. The couple divorced in 1959. She married architect John Lindsay that same year, but they divorced in October 1970 and she never remarried. A Roman Catholic, Lockhart and her daughter Anne and actress Kay Lenz met Pope John Paul II in 1985. Lockhart had a lifelong fascination with American presidential candidates and the media's coverage of them. Her friend reporter Merriman Smith arranged for her to travel with both major-party candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 presidential election and again with both campaigns in the 1960 election. Between 1957 and 2004, Lockhart attended many presidential briefings. Although a child of the Greatest Generation, Lockhart embraced rock music and listened to emerging rock bands. In an interview, her Lost in Space co-star Bill Mumy stated that she took Angela Cartwright and him to the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Hollywood "to hang out with The Allman Brothers Band". Appearing on The Virginia Graham Show in 1970 with Art Metrano and LGBT cleric Troy Perry, Lockhart confronted Graham about her moralizing tone toward gay people. Lockhart turned 100 on June 25, 2025. She died of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, California, on October 23, 2025. CLR [biography, excerpted, from Wikipedia]
Lainey Eckhoff and daughter Molly return to their hometown, spend a nice weekend, Lainey tells Molly about her childhood and growing up in this town, about the follies they did with friends, about first love (Ernie) and other things. When it's time to leave, Lainey can't find Molly anywhere, when she asks people in town, everyone says Molly has never been seen before, and that Lainey has been here alone. Police also don´t believe her. She asks Ernie for help, he tries to help her, looking for Molly, but the question is, did Molly really ever exist, and if so, did Molly really come to this town with Lainey? No evidence, all of Molly's things are missing at the hotel. Lainey tries to prove to Ernie and hermself that it's all true, goes to the places where she were with Molly and looks for proof that Molly was there with her, but everything like a drawing with a stick in the sand in the park or a stain from spilled soda on the carpet, all is disappeared. Lainey and Ernie begin falling in love again. SPOILER: Molly did everything herself, when she heard Lainey tell about her first and greatest love, she decided to bring Lainey and Ernie together, she knew that her mother would turn to Ernie to help her. She agreed on everything with the people of the city, whom she met during her stay, everyone should have said that he had never seen her and that Lainey was here alone. Molly destroyed all evidence. After Lainey and Ernie kiss, Molly appears in front of them and explains all.
