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OCTOBER 16, 2010
Barbara Billingsley, definitive '50s TV mom, dead at 94
Barbara Billingsley, whose character of June Cleaver on the 1950's TV sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" helped define motherhood for a generation of baby boomers, died Saturday at the age of 94.
Her death was the result of a long illness and she died at her home in Santa Monica, a family spokeswoman told CNN.
Along with Jane Wyatt as Margaret Anderson on "Father Knows Best" and Donna Reed as Donna Stone on "The Donna Reed Show," Billingsley helped create an idealized depiction of the All-American TV mom living with her nuclear family in a post-World-War II, white-picket-fence fantasy neighborhood. Mayfield was the fictional community in which the Cleavers lived, and it was part Frank Capra's small-town America and part Utopian vision of the suburbs to which the rapidly expanding middle class was already starting to move at the end of the 1950s and early '60s when the series aired... http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/10/barbara_billingsley_di.html
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