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Barbara Billingsley Biography

Birth Name:
Barbara Lillian Combes
Birth Place:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession
Actor

Fast Facts

  • Began her career as a $60-a-week model in New York City
  • Became the epitome of 1950s apron-wearing, cookie-baking TV moms as June Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver
  • Made a comeback in 1980 as a jive-talking older woman in the comedy Airplane! Provided the voice of Nanny in Muppet Babies

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