June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost in Space) defends gay people on Virginia Graham’s talk show in 1970. (2024)

Lockhart turned 99 this week. This clip came up when I searched her name.

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That's cool that she was vocally pro-gay when a lot of people (even very liberal ones) were not

Reverend Troy Perry later came out as gay and married his partner.

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Troy Perry was a hottie and now I love June even more than before!

I didn't know she was still alive. I never missed Lassie when I was a kid.

Didn’t June Lockhart do Depends commercials?

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I think you’re thinking of June Allyson.

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^ If it passes off Log Cabinettes then it's not horrible

What a wonderful person-Love her in “Lost in space” and she was in 1939 “A Christmas Carol “ with her very own parents playing her parents as Cratchit family. (Gene/Kathleen Lockhart)

Virginia Graham was born in 1912 & died in 1998 at age 86 so she's about 58 in this clip.

That was a surprisingly respectful conversation.

In the next clip, June reveals that Lassie was played in drag and why that was rather fabulous.

In the next clip, June puts Virginia in a headlock & threatens to eject her into space.

Anyone with those sideburns cannot be taken seriously.

^ Mind your own business.

Troy's sideburns >>> Virginia's hair

At first I thought one of the women on the couch was Phyllis Shlafey.

June co-hosted the Miss USA Pageant on television for several years but was fired for her slutty lifestyle. In her day Timmy's mom could get it.

I have always liked her, and even more now.

She played a character named TWINK in The Yearling.

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As a kid I wanted to be gay with Mark Goddard. I’m glad June would have been supportive

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God, Virginia was an absolute cunt in that segment, and June was a delight.

Plot twist: Lassie was non-binary.

June gets her point across in such a lovely, gentle manner. Virginia Graham was a slob.

June was a nepo baby -what does DL say about that?

just fabulous

Westlake School for Girls, class of 1943:

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July bump for June.

Eunice St. Clair

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She played Felicia's Aztec Treasure hoarding grandma on General Hospital.

She got lovelier as she aged (any work notwithstanding).

Virginia Graham was not very enlightened especially for someone who said she has "several homosexual friends."

I saw June Lockhart when I saw “The Boy From Oz” on Broadway… to honor either Peter Allen or Hugh Jackman, she was wearing an animal print blouse and skin tight oxblood leather pants. She was dancing in the aisle during the curtain call! At 79!

June Lockhart is a Tony winner.

After being dumped by Helen Lawson, lonely Joan is rumored to have convinced a reluctant Virginia to take a dip in the lady pond.

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Virginia Graham fell down once and broke her hair.

Looking at her, there can be absolutely no doubt that Aqua Net contained vinyl chloride....

June has always also been extremely interested and participating in our country’s political and scientific developments and accomplishments. A very bright and spirited lady, as well as an understated and perhaps underappreciated actor (not to mention, a classic rock music junkie in her day!).

That Virginia Graham is such a nasty old cunt.

R20 So she was fired for being a Runaround Sue?

I remember her from General Hospital. Tony Geary said that June was a cunt. And he doesn’t like cunts.

R51 That's quite a difference...

Takes a lot to shock me but Virginia Graham being anti-gay did it.

Good for June! Timmy would be proud...

Love Rev. Perry.

Rev. Troy Perry is 83 and looks quite healthy for his age.

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My God, who cares about Virginia Graham?

I wasn't the only bitch on "Lassie."

Virginia Graham’s pussy stunk!

I was hot for the dad on Lost in Space.

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June played Liz Taylor grown up in The White Hills of Dover 1944.

Guy Williams was a Henry Wilson boy. I wonder if you had to sleep with him even if you were straight to get him to represent you.

She played Dinky Hocker’s mother in Dinky Hocker ( 1978) on the ABC After School Special.

I always knew there was a reason to love June.

June was good as the rather cold mother of Wendy Jo Sperber.

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I fell i n love with her washing machine that took three seconds to wash, iron, fold, and wrap in plastic each item.

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R67- Me too. The weather is beautiful by then.

R73 Yes, Willson had a narrow idea of what was a manly name for a male leading man; he may have been overcompensating as a (somewhat) closeted homosexual of that era.

Tab Hunter says in the video version of his autobiography he didn't do anything with Willson, he says something like, Why would I? I wasn't attracted to him. He says Willson made a pass at him. As far as I remember.

(Hunter wasn't discovered by Willson and had already been represented by Dick Clayton, I think.)

Sorry to keep posting (I woke up and started looking at DL and there's no one around)...but I felt June Lockhart was very familiar, growing up. First, she was the mother on Lassie, a show I really, really liked. Then Lassie morphed into another type of show where Lassie left home and wandered around, getting into different adventures (sort of like the original movie, Lassie Come Home, from the 1940s)--June Lockhart narrated that. Then she was on Lost In Space, another show I loved. All of this was before I was 10. Then she was the doctor character (who sort-of replaced the late Bea Benaderet) on another show I always watched: Petticoat Junction. That went off the air when I was 12. It's hard to picture any other female TV star who was in my consciousness as much as JL. Other than Lucille Ball--but that was different, because she stood out, while Lockhart sort of blended in--always calmly there.

...In fact, even though I'm sure June (who gained some fame on Broadway) made a lot of money and was successful doing TV, I have to wonder now whether, as an actress, she wasn't bored with the quiet, unemotional, straight-arrow mom-type roles she always was cast in. Never getting a chance to do much interesting acting.

R77- I was a gayling in the early 1970's who had a crush/attraction on little Timmy on the Lassie show. Watching the show on WPIX in 1972- even then I knew I was watching an old show and that the little boy was all grown up and I could never be friends with him or anything. It was a bit melancholy or bittersweet.

The only TV character I remember having a crush on (if it was that) was Luke Halpin on Flipper. I couldn't figure out if I was jealous, or hero-worshipped him, or if it was something else. I had somewhat confusing emotions about it. I wasn't very self-aware. I also had some kind of crush on the statuesque showgirls (or June Taylor dancers--I forget) who brought Jackie Gleason his "coffee" on his show. But I also liked their satiny clothes. Ever since I was little I had a fetish or whatever for the feel of satin, and maybe I wanted to cross-dress, I don't know. Never did. I wish I was as clear cut on my childhood fantasies as some of you. (Sorry--late for my appointment with my shrink.)

She was in ‘’Son of Lassie’’1945.She was cute and sweet-Peter Lawford’s love interest.Not a great film.

Speaking of Jackie Gleason (R-80) recently discovered he was like Ellen-Crazy Tyrant.

R82 Don't put a dash after the "R", just R plus the post number. Or else the person (me) won't get a notification.

I'd like to give a shout out to the June Taylor Dancers.

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...in heaven.

Thanks-R-83-Will remember that.

R88 You didn't do it!

So why is that violinist not really playing? He couldn't do it live for TV? He had to be synced? Anyway I with the Bolshoi had kept it in their rep.

Evil Western cultural appropriation from June with a bit of gay soft porn thrown in.

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June is quite a pistol. Adore the woman.

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R91 I assume you mean Taylor, not Lockhart

Awww June is a fabulous human being <3

Thanks OP. I really enjoyed this thread.

You’re welcome, R95. I thought the video was cool. It’s important we remember our past.

If you look up “yenta” in the dictionary you’ll see a picture of Virginia Graham.

You look up "Yentl" guess who you'll see then...

Watching that Match Game clip, June and Swoosie Kurtz should have played mother and daughter. Their voices sound similar, and they have the same big eyes, and pinchable cheeks… although if you pinched Swoosie’s cheeks these days, her noggin would explode.

100!

Not until next June 25th.

^^^ Yes, Rose.

Has anyone ever seen Time Limit (1957)? It's a good movie directed by Karl Malden, starring Richard Widmark as an Army lawyer and Richard Basehart as a soldier accused of collaborating with the enemy during the Korean War. (Filmed on Governor's Island, NYC.) Lockhart plays Basehart's wife. I waited to see what kind of characterization she would come up with. But she was just "June Lockhart," with her usual well-enunciated speech, as far as I recall.

She let Virginia HAVE IT…what a cunt Virginia was. And that awful beehive of hers.

I've never heard of "Time Limit," but will track it down. I didn't know Malden had worked as a director. It sounds similar to "The Rack" (1955), which isn't the greatest movie, but is worth seeing for the brilliant performance by young Paul Newman.

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R105 A bit similar but with a different twist. Malden's only film as director. Here's the movie:

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R106 June is actually very good in it, I watched it again, I forgot.