YouTube - Barbara Billingsley: "Stewardess, I Speak Jive"
RIP, Mrs Cleaver.
YouTube - Barbara Billingsley: "Stewardess, I Speak Jive"
RIP, Mrs Cleaver.
Most sad news to hear indeed.
RIP
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Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
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“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
You boys.... your father is in his study.
I knew some Mrs Cleavers in my day.
Good woman they were.
+1Originally Posted by westofyou
Billingsley's famous character was iconic. It's sad to hear of her passing.
Despite her naive demeanor, I love that her BS meter always used to call shennanigans on Eddie Haskell.
Didn't she utter the most graphic line on TV during the golden age of television?
"Ward, don't you think you've been a little hard on the Beaver?'
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
She was the voice of Nanny on the Muppet Babies as well.
I watched this with my then-little kids for a couple years before I watched the credits and thought "Mrs. Cleaver!!!"
A life well-led.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
My second fave show from that time behind Andy Griffith was Leave It To Beaver. Had a bit of a crush on her as a kid, I thought she was so beautiful. So long, Barbara.
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"Sit over here next to Johnathan (Bench)...sit right here, he's smart."--Sparky Anderson
It used to be a source of amusement on "Leave It To Beaver" that she would wear pearls to do housework.... I read later that she had a "hollow" just above her collarbone that the lighting guys had trouble with, so she'd wear the pearls to hide the shadow.
BTW, if you ever have some major time to kill, go online to the "Archive of American Television", and you'll find long interviews with the icons of American television, Barabara Billingsley among them.
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
I wouldn't so much call it sad. She made it to 94. I'd say she did right well.
Grew up with the Beaver, but my Mom never did her household chores or cooked dinners as dolled up in a dress and high heels as June was. And she always wore that same necklace too.
TV Mom's like her and Harriet Nelson caught all types of flack from feminists of the 60's/70s, but I think this article says a lot when it comes to those "perfect" Moms of the 50s/60s sitcoms. They weren't real, and in the neighborhoods where I grew up I didn't see any Moms being influenced or trying to idolize them either. I would have loved to have had June Cleaver as a Mom. LOL
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/enterta...262/story.html
Last edited by GAC; 10-26-2010 at 09:05 AM.
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