Barbara Billingsley

William Mortenson. Due to scheduling conflicts the scene was shown on the Los Angelas set of General Hospital, instead of the New York set where All My Children is taped. After their divorce, she married Roy Kellino, and, after his death, she married Dr. She hosted a 25th Aniversary special about the show in 1995, and made a brief cameo as Verla on the January 5th 2005 episode celebrating the 35th aniversary of the program. She and her first husband, Glenn Billingsley, had two sons, Drew and Brud. Burnett suddenly found herself playing the long lost daughter of Langly Wallingford (Louis Edmonds), and raising hell for her stepmother Pheobe Tyler-Wallingford (Ruth Warrick). At the same time, she did the voice of Nanny on Muppet Babies from 1984 to 1991, and gained a new audience completely. She got to live a dream when Agnes Nixon created the role of Verla Grubbs for her.

She appeared in a Leave It to Beaver reunion movie and in a subsequent revival television series, Still the Beaver. Burnett has been a long time fan of the soap opera All My Children. 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. Burnett was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for 2003. After a long absence from the public eye, she appeared in the movie Airplane! in 1980. Burnett returned to TV in the mid 1990's as a supporting character on the sitcom Mad About You when she played Theresa Stemple, the mother of main character Jamie Buchman, played by Helen Hunt. 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. The case is a landmark in the study of libel cases involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict was reduced on appeal, and the case was eventually settled out of court.

She is best known for her role as matriarch June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Burnett drew attention in 1981, when she sued the National Enquirer for libel after the tabloid newspaper described her alleged public drunkenness. These roles continued into the first half of the 1950s and led to lead roles on the sitcoms Professional Father and The Brothers. Its ensemble cast included Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner and Vicki Lawrence, who was cast partly because she looked like a younger Burnett. As an actress on the silver screen, she had usually uncredited roles in major motion picture productions in the 1940s. The hour-long The Carol Burnett Show was a huge success, garnering 22 Emmy awards and continuing to success in syndicated re-runs. She started her career in New York City, appearing in the Broadway play, Straw Hat, and then worked as a fashion model. With her success on this variety show she finally came to headliner status and appeared in the 1962 special Julie and Carol and Carnegie Hall, also starring fellow singer/actress Julie Andrews.

She was sometimes credited as Barbara Billinsley. In the same year she appeared on the Garry Moore television variety show as a regular until 1962. Her professional name comes from the last name of her first husband, Glenn Billingsley. She achieved success in Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress. Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1922 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She graduated from Hollywood High School and the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked her way up through bit parts on TV, coming to prominence in the mid-1950s singing a novelty love song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles". I Cheated the Law (1949). Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas to two alcoholic parents, who left her with her grandmother, who moved to Hollywood, California.

Pretty Baby (1950). Carol Burnett (born April 26, 1933) was one of the most successful female comedians on American television, thanks largely to her variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. Invitation (1952). Woman in the Dark (1952). The Lady Wants Mink (1953).