Actress June Lockhart, whose long career began in Hollywood’s Golden Age with such films as “A Christmas Carol” and “Meet Me in St. Louis” and went on to include television roles as the mother on “Lassie” and “Lost in Space,” has died at the age of 100, it was announced today.

Lockhart died Thursday in Santa Monica of natural causes with her daughter June Elizabeth and granddaughter Christianna by her side, according to her publicist.

Born in New York, Lockhart made her stage debut at 8 years old in the 1933 production of “Peter Ibbetson” at the Metropolitan Opera House. She began acting in films at age 13 MGM’s 1938 version of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol,” which starred her parents Gene and Kathleen Lockhart.

Her next film was “All This and Heaven Too” playing alongs

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