Actress Barbara Billingsley Dies

Barbara Billingsley, who played one of the most memorable mothers on television on "Leave It to Beaver," died today. She was 94.

Barbara, who suffered from rheumatoid disease, died at his home in Santa Monica, reports the New York Post.

Born Barbara Lillian Combes, discovered his love for acting like a child when she plays in plays in elementary school. As an adult, has won numerous film roles during the 1940s and 1950s - but finally won star status when she won the role of June Cleaver in "Leave it to Beaver."

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Barbara has been the type to heaven after his interpretation of the beautiful, charming and charismatic June Cleaver, but the actress did not mind the screen.

"Today, some people, is associated with the role of a (June Cleaver), and it is difficult to do anything" once revealed. "But for me, was an honor."

Married three times, she and her physician husband, Bill married third in 1959 and remained together until his death in 1981 Mortenson. She leaves two son, three stepchildren and several grandchildren.

Barbara Billingsley, Who Played June Cleaver Is Dead

Barbara Billingsley, June Cleaver television, died Saturday morning at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 94. In the obituary of Mrs. Billingsley, published on the website of The Times, Michael Pollak wrote:

    From 1957 to 1963 and during the decades of repetition, the prestige of June, pearls and wear high heels at home, you could count on to help her husband, Charles (Hugh Beaumont), get his son Theodore, better known as Mathers Beaver (Jerry) and his older brother Wally (Tony Dow), disengaged from many minor jams, a crocodile in the basement of a horse in the garage.

    ... The real Barbara Billingsley, who had nothing but respect from June Cleaver was a former model-actress race was married three times and has spent most of his career as a working single mother (of two, by the way).
    Yes, he recognized 40 years later, his role was an idealized reflection of the time. "We were the ideal parents, because that's how I saw it, he said, describing the show as the world seen through the eyes of a child. (The Pearl, by the way, were there to cover a hole in the neck in a first wore flats;. The heels are an attempt to remain higher than for children more.)

After the show went off the air, Ms. Billingsley, and then completely encased in June, as I have seen some functions and focuses on his family. His career was revived in 1980 with the comedy! "Airplane" Pollack wrote that she had played "a passenger costs declared in the" jive "with two black passengers Street -. A scathing commentary on his previous incarnation as the mother of U.S. white bread