Barbara Billingsley - biography

“Don’t think your dreams don’t come true, because they do.  You’d better be careful what you wish for.  And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the ‘Beaver’ show and I said, ‘This is the show I have always wanted to do.’”

“I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in ‘The New Leave It to Beaver.’ She did.  Sure, she was a council woman.  She went to work.  She wasn’t a sit-at-home grandma.  She went out, got a job.”

“I feel that I can’t do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I’ve been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones.  And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won’t do.”

“People stopped me on the street and said ‘I can’t live up to you.’ Of course, they’re referring to June Cleaver.”

“Yes, I always played the bad woman.  I actually did.”

Barbara Billingsley has appeared in the following films:
Adventure (1945)
The Secret Heart (1946)
Three Wise Fools (1946)
Undercurrent (1946)
Living in a Big Way (1947)
The Arnelo Affair (1947)
Act of Violence (1948)
The Saxon Charm (1948)
A Kiss for Corliss (1949)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
Caught (1949)
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Inside Straight (1951)
The Tall Target (1951)
Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
The Careless Years (1957)
Airplane! (1980)
Leave It to Beaver (1997)