June Lockhart and Malcolm McDowell at the opening of the exhibition "The More the Merrier: Posters from the Best Picture Nominees, 1936-1943 " at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday, January 22, 2010. The exhibition, which features posters from 80 movies, is currently being held at the Academy's Wilshire Grand Lobby in Beverly Hills. Among the represented films are Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, Robert Z. Leonard's The Great Ziegfeld, Leo McCarey's Love Affair, and George Stevens' The More the Merrier.
June Lockhart had a supporting role in Howard Hawks' sentimental war drama Sergeant York, which starred Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Joan Leslie. Cooper won the best actor award, but the film lost to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. Among the other nominees that year were William Wyler's The Little Foxes, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, and Alexander Hall's Here Comes Mr. Jordan (later remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait).
Photo: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.
Ive always admired the sort of 50/60s magic of June Lockhart.I think the description I have seen somewhere to the effect that she was representative of feminine beauty and womanhood of her time-is so apt