Leave It To Beaver remains one of my favorite shows ,not in small part to Barbara Billingsley's portrayal of the perfect mother, June Cleaver. RIP Barbara.
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
The TV mom of the '50s R.I.P.
Though I must say one of the most unintentional lewd lines of all time came from her "don't be so hard on the Beaver" :PMember of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
Her best scene ever:
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RIP to a great woman!
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That was such a great scene at the time and carries through to today. LITB was before my time, but can't forget Eddie Haskell always trying to schmooz Mrs. Cleaver just about every time he showed up at the house.Her best scene ever:
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RIP to a great woman!
Gotta love the 50's housewives as portrayed by great ladies like this.Comment
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
Leave It To Beaver was well before my time as well, but I did grow up watching reruns of that show and liked it as a kid. I also remember her as the voice of Nanny on the Muppet Babies cartoon back in the 80s which I did watch on its initial run. No matter what though, I will always remember her most for that awesome scene in Airplane!Comment
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
I have vague memories of watching them first run around 1961 0r 1962, but they didn't seem to be rebroadcast them much after the 60's. On Mother's Day of 1995 TBS used Barbara Billingsley's favorite episodes (10 I think) for a mini marathon and then TV Land started running them shortly after that. TV Land doesn't show them anymore. About 95% of all the episodes are now available as streaming content on Netflix.Comment
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
She was great, and Leave it to Beaver was one of my favorite shows.
R.I.P to such a cool lady...She's now with other Angels...many prayers and blessings to her family. I hope her kids and grand children can handle this loss.Comment
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
RIP.
Leave it to Beaver was classic. Ward died a long time ago and I bet Larry Mondello can't be far behind.Chalepa Ta Kala.....Comment
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Yeah, but is the character who played Mondello obese now? We don't know that.
Actually, I just found a site that Whitey was in rehab in 1995 and was clean 2 weeks later. He died in 2003 while in surgery on his intestine for a hernia.
The drugs and alcohol might have been a contributing factor, not sure.Last edited by roadman; 10-19-2010, 11:08 AM.Comment
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Re: RIP Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)
Brought up in one of the obits was the fact that the show was cancelled because the actors wanted to move on. This surprised because LITB never hit the Top 30 in any of it's seasons (I recall it's best rating being #32). Of course in those days you could be just outside of #30 and still have ten million viewers.Comment
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