Jane Wyatt

I first saw Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) in LOST HORIZONS. She played Ronald Coleman’s love interest, a woman who, thanks to the preservative powers of Shangri-la, looks a century younger than she actually is. Wyatt was 26 at the time, and continued to look lovely and youthful throughout her long career in films and TV. Her best remembered role was Margaret Anderson, the wise and patient matriarch in "Father Knows Best" (1954-60), the one in the family who really always knew best. She set the benchmark for every sitcom Mom to come. Years later she played another good Mom, Mr. Spock's, on TV's original Star Trek and on the big screen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. She, Amanda, was the earthling parent who imbued Spock with the human emotions he was forever disavowing.

Amanda (Jane Wyatt): "Spock, does the good of the many outweigh the good of the one?"
Spock (Leonard Nimoy): "I would accept that as an axiom."
Amanda: "Then you stand here alive because of a mistake made by your flawed, feeling, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because they believed that the good of the one - you - was more important to them."
Spock: "Humans make illogical decisions."
Amanda: "They do indeed."