LOS ANGELES - Barbara Billingsley, who gained supermom status for her gentle portrayal of June Cleaver, the warm, supportive mother of a pair of precocious boys in "Leave it to ...

“It's an honest show,” agreed Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver. She told The Ledger-Star that “the situations are taken from real life, and we are not just trying for laughs.

Jerry Mathers reflects on the wholesome "Leave It to Beaver" set, sharing memories of TV parents Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley and friendships with cast from the 1950s sitcom.

More The bond Jerry Mathers shared with his on-screen parents, Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, extended far beyond the scripted family dynamic of Leave It to Beaver.

Mathers was speaking with PEOPLE and shared stories about both Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, who played Ward and June Cleaver on the series.

They approached a 1950s TV mom, Harriet Nelson, to play the part and hired Barbara Billingsley from “Leave It to Beaver” when Nelson declined.

The Cleavers’ strict-but-caring patriarch Ward was played by Hugh Beaumont and perfect mom and wife June was lovingly played by Barbara Billingsley. As for the Cleaver kids you had athletic ...

Barbara Walters Film Emphasizes the Highlights in a Mixed Legacy “Tell Me Everything” is more of a puff piece than its subject might have liked, but the film is at its best examining TV ...

The soap star, best known for his roles in “General Hospital,” “Santa Barbara” and Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show,” died on June 22, in Burbank, Calif.

Barbara Walters 'secretly resented' Diane Sawyer, peers say in the new 'Tell Me Everything' documentary. Cynthia McFadden adds that Walters tried to sabotage Sawyer's Katharine Hepburn interview.

Television and film actor Joe Marinelli, who appeared in “The Morning Show” and “Santa Barbara,” to name a few titles, has died. He was 68.