I never never thought it would be like this. … Chemically I'm not put together for anything like this. I'm not sexy. I honestly thought if I did steady, sensible work that maybe when I was 30 or 35 I would get approval as a good actress.
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On her early career success as a broadway star, in a 1946 interview with the Associated Press, as quoted in "June Lockhart, warmhearted star of Lassie and Lost in Space, dies at 100" by Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post (25 October 2025)