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Barbara Billingsley, Beaver Cleaver's TV mom, dies
This makes me sad. "Leave It to Beaver" is still one of my favorite shows ever. RIP June and say "hello" to Ward.
Rest in Peace "Mom" ! ! ! !
With our troubled times we are going through today, everyone agrees with me when I say I wish we could back to the "Leave It To Beaver" era . . . . . .
What a wonderful time it was .
Yeah, I miss segregation and the oppression of women too. Anyone who thinks we were better off in the 50s obviously wasn't paying attention.
This is sad day for me. She was every mans hope for a perfect wife. She can never be replaced. The joy and hope she gave millions will live on. My heart goes out to her family.
June Cleaver was mom to all of us. Who didn't love her? Who wasn't comforted by her? The only problem was that I could never understand why my own mom didn't have a wardrobe advisor, along with the fancy wardrobe, and hairdresser, along with the perpetually perfect coiffure, hidden somewhere off the beautifully furnished living room. June was really a dream mom. Did she ever once lose her cool under any trying circumstance? How many real moms could live up to her image? Billingsley was exceptional. May she rest in peace. God, I feel old. First Eddie Fisher, then Tony Curtis, and now this.
June Cleaver was the perfect Mother. Everyone wanted a Mom like that.
Will always remember her dressed up vacuuming, polishing furniture in their home, wearing pearls, earrings, and apron; hair perfect.. Sitting at a formal dining room, all of them as a Family; Ward with his suit on at the table. What Dad at that time ever wore a custom made suit to eat with the family?
Everyone has a Eddie Haskell in their family. It was just a good, wholesome fun program. Life was simple then.
Question: Did she drive? She was always home.
"Perfect" why, George?
RIP dear, you were one of the best. I still watch the reruns of Leave it to Beaver, and it's really a shame that we do not have quality programming like we use to have back in the good-ole-days.
Leave it to Beaver was a favorite childhood show.....I miss those days. RIP Barbara.
Rest in peace. I loved you in Beaver...and you were awesome in Airplane!
I completely agree! Leave it to Beaver is a great all time TV program. Her part in Airplane was superb. After I watched that movie several times, it finally dawned on me who she was!
RIP, Barbara!
RIP---- the greatest joke I ever heard was this: what were the first obscene wordn on tv? Ward, weren't you a little rough on the Beaver last night? Hugh and Barbara were something very special.
"Oh stewardess--I speak jive!"
Good-bye, Mrs. Cleaver. Wally and the "Beav" were lucky!
The truth!
Someone at MSNBC needs to do a little fact-checking. If Ms. Billingsley was born December 22, 1922, she would have been 87, not 94.
I remember being a very young child and watching "Leave It to Beaver". Although it might not have been the most realistic view of an American family (I know that no moms in MY middle-class neighborhood wore pearls and heels when they were housecleaning), it was still a great show, and Ms. Billingsley was a huge part of that. And no one who has seen "Airplane!" will ever forget her "I speak jive" routine. R.I.P., "Mrs. Cleaver".
Yeah, somebody probably fell asleep during math class. Definitely loved her in "Airplane".
It's an AP article and it's missing what I consider her greatest role as Nanny, the striped sock wearing guardian of muppet babies.
I checked this out - she was born Dec. 22, 1915 making her 84 at the time of her passing. Anyone with an extra calculator, please send on to the writer of this article :o)
umnn. you mean 94 don't you? Anyhow, regardless of how old she was, she was a beauty . The original show aired before my time, but of course I saw it in reruns . I can imagine a lot of kids grew up wishing they had a Mom like her, a Dad like Ward and no problem that couldn't be solved in 30 minutes less commercial time. RIP Babs.
My children love "Leave it to Beaver". They will be so sad when...if...I tell them.
Odd. I was just thinking about that scene in "Airplane" this morning.
NBC Nightly News also said she was 94. Do the math. 1915 from 2010 would put her at 95 less the few months from December.
Except that the article said she was born Dec 22, 1922. Probably a typo on their part.
RIP
She was born in 1915, same year as my mom.
Loved June Cleaver! Not only was she the perfect actress for the Leave it Beaver series, she was such a nice lady, too. Saw her in a few interviews and she was first class. RIP, Barbara.
RIP, when I was growing up I wanted you to be my mom
Boy isn't that the truth!!!
Mine wish was that my Mom would be just like her.
RIP June-Barbara
We tried to raise our children in the same type of atmosphere, sans the formality.
Because of Leave it to Beaver, the series, it set an example for our family to have a great time together, with all the kids from everywhere coming to our "open house". Great days, good food, great memories.
Thank you Mrs. Cleaver..
The end of an era.
Rest in peace. You were the best tv mom ever and I will never forget you.
she had a great personality that met the needs of the part, classic! i was wondering why so much 'Beaver' stuff was surfacing on media sites lately, she was in many peoples hearts! RIP sweety!
She was a delight but I'm confused about her age. If she was born in '22 she wouldn't be 94?
America was better with her. Now we're stuck with that sorry ass Palin. God speed June, hope you're on prime time in the sky!
While I'm no Palin fan by any means this isn't the time nor place.
Lighten up. Marcus Johnson made a valid comparison.
Mrs. Cleaver was universally loved, always a lady, and as intelligent as her character was allowed to be. She was composed, consistent, and classy.
I agree jkatze. Billingsly gave us the portrayal of a feminine character worth emulation, one that makes us feel pride in our potential to attain something elegant in our own lives. Marcus Johnson's contrast to a shallow attention-hogging, ego-centric, empty-headed lying opportunist like Palin was, in fact, a high compliment and fitting memorial.
Thanks for all those wonderful afterschool afernoons I spent at your safe wonderful and warm TV house, Barbara. RIP.
Billingsley = Good
Palin = Berry Bad for America
WOW jkatze and Marcus Johnsom...if you are going to bag on Palin here, how about Gloria Allred. You talk about ego-centric, empty headed, LYING OPPORTUNIST. She threw her client under the bus for political gain.
You had to bring politicians into this didn't you......geez!
My opinion, most politicians today = bad for America Dems and Repubs.
As far as TV programs go, today's sitcoms suck! Bring back shows like the Beaver and respectful families and maybe America could back on track. Get rid of reality TV!
Barbara Billingsley (December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010[1][2]) was an American film, television, voice and stage actress, who in her five decades of television came to prominence in the 1950s on the big screen in The Careless Years opposite Natalie Trundy, followed by her best-known role, that of June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver and its sequel Still the Beaver (also known as The New Leave It to Beaver).
Sara Palin is real. June Cleaver was a fictional character in a television show. There is quite a difference between the two.
stull
"You had to bring politicians into this didn't you......geez!"
stull said it in the first line 12.6.
I think that about sums it up, except to say you are a jerk
Marcus Johnson
RIP Thank you for the wonderful memories.
I caught that too. 88 or so appears the correct age. Ward, wern't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?
You took my line. A classic! RIP June.
How do you figure
2010 - 1915 = 95 in December
Sir, I came up with she's 105 years old man.........
I was hooked on Leave It To Beaver as a kid. Leave It To Beaver was a show about a family that never was, in a time that never was, but oh, how I wished it had been MY family, and my mother had been June Cleaver.
Looking back on it 50 years later... I'd still be proud to call her mom. Hope she meets up with mine and they become friends.
She was great. Her best work, however, was not on "Beaver". I will always remember her in one of the funniest scenes ever in film.
It starts, "Excuse me, stewardess. I speak jive."
The next five minutes of the movie "Airplane" are some of the funniest EVER.
RIP Ms. Billingsley
Best part of the whole movie.
Rest in peace.
Just thinking about June Cleaver and the cast makes one feel good during these tough times. RIP June and Ward
She was the mom that we all wanted to be our mom.Rest in peace sweet lady.
Was her birthday wrong or her age? You should proof-read your stories.
Then again - who really cares, eh?!
Rest in Peace June
She was a good lady, to say the least!
To bad the networks don't go back and look at some of the programing that made them. Then we could have shows that really entertain instead of the brain dead programing that is today's "waste of time".
Bye Mrs. Cleaver, you were the best!
I so agree with you, wish we could go back. I never watch stupid sitcoms. There's no reason for them to exist. They do not teach morality, goodness, just stupidity.
She was a class act at a time when people were impressed by intelligence, wit, and grace. RIP, Barbara, and thanks for the memories!
Rest In Peace Thank You for the memories
I loved that show as a child, and can remember her calm, mothering way. RIP Mrs. Cleaver.
We'll miss you Barbara. If she was born on Dec 22nd, 1922, that would not make her 94. So either the story got her birth date wrong, or her age wrong.
You were the best tv Mom!
If Barbara was born in 1922, she died at age 88, not 94. God bless you Barbara!
She was also the nanny to the muppet babies. Loved those striped socks!