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thatcrazycajunTV and film actress Barbara Billingsley, who attained iconic status as Mrs. June Cleaver in the 1950s-'60s TV series Leave It to Beaver and its various sequelae, has died at 94 in her Santa Monica, CA home of rheumatoid illness. Her obituary in detail can be read here.
She later traded on that status for laughs in one of the most famous scenes from the now-classic satire of '70s airline-disaster films, Airplane! and won a whole new fandom thereby. (One could say she helped prepare us for the second coming of Betty White.) Deepest sympathies to her famly, friends and fans...and may she finally be reunited in Hollywood heaven with her TV spouse, Hugh Beaumont, who pre-deceased her in 1982.
She later traded on that status for laughs in one of the most famous scenes from the now-classic satire of '70s airline-disaster films, Airplane! and won a whole new fandom thereby. (One could say she helped prepare us for the second coming of Betty White.) Deepest sympathies to her famly, friends and fans...and may she finally be reunited in Hollywood heaven with her TV spouse, Hugh Beaumont, who pre-deceased her in 1982.
