Lockhart, who spent most of her life on stage or on screen was one of Hollywood's "very favorite moms," actor Bill Mumy said.

"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.

June Lockhart died of natural causes in her Southern California home this week, her family said Saturday. She was 100.