Eve Arden

She died of cancer and heart disease in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. William Mortenson. She was also the star of Our Miss Brooks, a sitcom which aired on both radio (1948 - 1952) and television (1952 - 1956). After their divorce, she married Roy Kellino, and, after his death, she married Dr. She played in many movies, including Grease, in which she played the principal, and the secretary in Anatomy of a Murder. She and her first husband, Glenn Billingsley, had two sons, Drew and Brud. Eve Arden (April 30, 1908–November 12, 1990) was an American actress born as Eunice Quedens in Mill Valley, California. At the same time, she did the voice of Nanny on Muppet Babies from 1984 to 1991, and gained a new audience completely.

She appeared in a Leave It to Beaver reunion movie and in a subsequent revival television series, Still the Beaver. Her most famous line from the film, in which she said "Stewardess? I speak jive!" was quoted in popular culture for many years after the fact. After a long absence from the public eye, she appeared in the movie Airplane! in 1980. The show ran from 1957 to 1963 and proved to be very lucrative for Billingsley. However, when the show ended, she was typecast as saccharine sweet, and did not receive any acting jobs for years.

She is best known for her role as matriarch June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver. These roles continued into the first half of the 1950s and led to lead roles on the sitcoms Professional Father and The Brothers. As an actress on the silver screen, she had usually uncredited roles in major motion picture productions in the 1940s. She started her career in New York City, appearing in the Broadway play, Straw Hat, and then worked as a fashion model.

She was sometimes credited as Barbara Billinsley. Her professional name comes from the last name of her first husband, Glenn Billingsley. Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1922 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. I Cheated the Law (1949).

Pretty Baby (1950). Invitation (1952). Woman in the Dark (1952). The Lady Wants Mink (1953).