Leave It to Beaver
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Jerry Mathers went to college to prove that actors weren’t all dimwitted
Mathers studied hard to prove people wrong. The terms “actor” and “intellectual” are often thought to be mutually exclusive. However,…
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No other actors were auditioned for June Cleaver besides Barbara Billingsley
She may have been born in December, but she was destined to be June! In Hollywood, there are a lot…
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Jerry Mathers on the ”frustrating” part of working with child actors
“The relationship between the adult and child actors on the set can be strained,” he wrote. It can be difficult…
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Leave It to Beaver’s Jerry Mathers Reveals How a Chance Encounter Led to a Life in the Spotlight
For six seasons, Jerry Mathers played Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, the most adorable kid getting into trouble on television. “When we…
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Jerry Mathers revealed that people thought that he and Tony Dow were really brothers
The on-screen brothers often puzzled people in real life. Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher might have done too good of…
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The creators of Leave It to Beaver creators were worried viewers wouldn’t like the series once the Beaver grew up
Would The Beaver be as funny if he wasn’t a kid? Leave It to Beaver was lucky enough to stay…
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Hugh Beaumont said that acting in Leave It to Beaver was just like raising his own children
Between playing Ward Cleaver and raising his own children, Hugh Beaumont was the father of all fathers. The saying is…
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Jerry Mathers says we got it all wrong about Leave It to Beaver
Leave it to Beaver to set the record straight! Leave It to Beaver is upheld as this paragon of suburban…
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‘Leave It to Beaver’ Went to War with Network Censors to Show a Toilet on TV
They were somehow fine with Beaver getting tipsy Network TV censors were pretty tough back in the 1950s and 1960s,…
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Leave It To Beaver’s Toilet Controversy Almost Flushed The Show Down The Drain
It’s astonishing to think of how far television has come in terms of what’s acceptable to air to the masses.…
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