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Biography

Career

With a year at Los Angeles Junior College behind her, Billingsley traveled to Broadway when Straw Hat, a revue in which she was appearing, attracted enough attention to send it to New York. When, after five days, the show closed, she took an apartment on 57th Street and went to work as a $60-a-week fashion model. The LACC location in 1922, when it was the campus of UCLA. Los Angeles City College, known as LACC or simply as City, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. ... A model is a person who acts as a human prop for purposes of art, pornography, fashion, advertising, etc. ...

As an actress on the silver screen, she had usually uncredited roles in major motion picture productions in the 1940s. These roles continued into the first half of the 1950s (The Bad and the Beautiful) and led to lead roles on the sitcoms Professional Father and The Brothers. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1953 melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all of those around him. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... The Brothers may mean: The Brothers, an important double summit in the Olympics of Washington state The Brothers Wilderness, a wilderness area surrounding them The Brothers, small islands in Hong Kong The Brothers, a 2001 movie This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...

She is best known for her role as the archetypal, suburban housewife and mother June Cleaver in the sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The Cleaver household became iconic in its representation of a rather bland, suburban lifestyle associated with 1950s America. Billingsley, who could often be seen doing household chores wearing pearls and earrings, was especially singled out. The show ran from 1957 to 1963 and proved to be very lucrative for Billingsley. June Cleaver is a fictional character, the matriarch of the Cleaver clan on the US television series Leave It to Beaver. ... For other uses, see Leave It to Beaver (disambiguation). ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

When production of the show ended in 1963, however, Billingsley was typecast as saccharine sweet, and had trouble obtaining acting jobs for years. She traveled extensively abroad until the late 1970s, and then, after an absence of 17 years from the public eye (other than appearing in two episodes of The F.B.I. in 1971), she appeared in the movie Airplane! (1980), in some off-beat casting that was praised by critics, as a passenger who could speak jive. For other meanings, see typecasting. ... The F.B.I. was a television series broadcast on ABC in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on 27 June 1980, produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Look up jive, jiving in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

She was the voice of "Nanny" on Muppet Babies from 1984 to 1991. Jim Hensons Muppet Babies is an American animated television series that aired from 1984 to 1991 on CBS. It was loosely based on a sequence in the Muppet film The Muppets Take Manhattan, in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Billingsley appeared in a Leave It to Beaver reunion television movie entitled Still the Beaver in 1983, a year after her on-screen husband during the six-year original run of the series, Hugh Beaumont, died of a heart attack. She also appeared in the subsequent revival television series, The New Leave It to Beaver (1985-1989). In the 1997 film version of Leave It to Beaver, Billingsley played the character "Aunt Martha". Leave It to Beaver Cast, (from left) Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, and Jerry Mathers Leave It to Beaver was a situation comedy which ran on CBS from October 4, 1957 to 1958 and then on ABC from 1958 to June 20, 1963. ... Hugh Beaumont Ward Cleaver is a fictional character played by actor Hugh Beaumont on the Leave It to Beaver situation comedy which ran on CBS from October 4, 1957 to 1958 and then on ABC from 1958 to June 20, 1963. ... Hugh Beaumont, American actor, director, and Methodist minister, 1909-1982 Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 - May 14, 1982) was an American actor, television director, and Methodist minister. ... The New Leave It to Beaver was a sequel to the 1950s sitcom, Leave it to Beaver. ... The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 film that is a remake of the classic TV series of the same name. ...

In 2007, Billingsley completed a role on My Name Is Earl. My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ...

Personal life

Billingsley was born in Los Angeles, California. She and her first husband, Glenn Billingsley, a successful restaurateur, had two sons, Drew and Glenn, Jr. Since 1974, Drew and Glenn have owned and operated Billingsley's Restaurant in West Los Angeles, in the tradition of their father, and their great uncle, Sherman Billingsley, founder of New York City's very fashionable 1940s-era nightclub, The Stork Club. Billingsley divorced Glenn Billingsley, but kept his surname professionally, and later married Roy Kellino, a director. After Kellino's death, she married Dr. William Mortenson. d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... A blonde haired, very skilled worker with a 70s look. ... West Los Angeles, also called the Westside, is generally considered to be the portion of Los Angeles, California and its suburbs that lies east of the Pacific Ocean including Brentwood, west of La Brea Avenue (varying definitions set the boundary at Fairfax Avenue or even the eastern border of Beverly... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... // This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Billingsley is related by marriage to actor/producer Peter Billingsley, known for his starring role as Ralphie in the seasonal classic A Christmas Story. First husband Glenn's cousin is Peter's mother, Gail Billingsley. Peter Billingsley (born April 16, 1971, in New York, New York), also known as Peter Michaelsen[1] and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen[2], is an American actor, director, and producer known for his role as Ralphie in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, whose requests for a genuine Red Ryder BB... For the Christian Christmas story, see Nativity of Jesus A Christmas Story is a 1983 film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickeys Night of...

Today, Billingsley resides in Santa Monica, California. She is a proud grandmother of four.^{[citation needed]} For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ...

Film roles (credited)

• Secret Santa (2003) (TV)
• Leave It to Beaver (1997)
• Still the Beaver (1983) (TV)
• Airplane! (1980)
• The Careless Years (1957)
• The Lady Wants Mink (1953)
• Woman in the Dark (1952)
• Two Dollar Bettor (1951)
• Inside Straight (1951)
• Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
• Pretty Baby (1950)
• Trial Without Jury (1950)
• Shadow on the Wall (1950)
• Air Hostess (1949)
• I Cheated the Law (1949)
• Prejudice (1949)
• Valiant Hombre (1948)
• The Argyle Secrets (1948)

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Television shows

• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1953-1955)
• Four Star Playhouse (1953-1955)
• The Brothers (1956)
• Make Room for Daddy (1957)
• Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963)
• The F.B.I. (1971)
• Mork and Mindy (1982)
• Amazing Stories (1985)
• The New Leave It to Beaver (1985-1989)
• My Name is Earl (2007)

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External links

• Barbara Billingsley at the Internet Movie Database