Margaret O'Brien
Dean Stockwell
June Allyson
More than any other actress from the 40's, June Allyson represented for me the happiest days that I imagined my mom having and expressing. In fact, when I think of my mom as a young woman or a young girl, I think of June Allyson's smile. My mom liked June Allyson as an actress, but she certainly was not her favorite. But I liked June Allyson. I think that my mom liked a lot of the actresses of the 40s, women like
Elizabeth Taylor
Janet Leigh
Russ Tamblyn
Elizabeth Patterson. I don't know that she was a child actor, but I loved seeing her in movies and television series like I Love Lucy. Here she is in Little Women, standing at the far right.
And below, here she is in an I Love Lucy episode as Matilda Trumbull.
A great interview of Dean Stockwell.
