Ken Osmond certainly was no John Holmes. Holmes was an adult film star from the 1970s. In fact, Ken Osmond stopped working as an actor in the late 1960s. He was an L.A.P.D. Officer during that era.
Far from Hollywood, yet patrolling nearby, he was on active duty when he was shot three times. These were real injuries, not showbiz!
The Media Reported Mathers Was Killed in Combat
Sadly, Private J. Mathers was killed in Vietnam in 1968. When the news broke, the press mistakenly attributed the death to the "Leave It to Beaver" actor. Oops!
The name was the same, but, of course, Mathers never made it to South Asia. After the report hit the news, perhaps the actor understood better why the Marines rejected him.
Other Media-Generated Buzz Created This Rumor
The actor who played the sneaky rascal, Eddie, was later rumored to have grown up to be Alice Cooper! How did this happen, you may be wondering? Well, in a 1970s interview, Alice Cooper said that he was like Eddie as a kid.
Fans thought he said he was Eddie when he was a kid, which would mean he was actually the actor Ken Osmond!
June Cleaver Had Something to Hide
Actress Barbara Billingsley wouldn’t be the same June Cleaver without the string of pearls she always wore.
But it was less about looking like June than a practical solution. She had a hollow indentation on her neck, and the necklace was the perfect solution to conceal it.
This Is How Hugh Beaumont Came to Be an Ordained Minister
Long before he landed the Ward Cleaver gig, Beaumont unwittingly studied for it. As a philosophy student, he obtained his master’s in theology at USC and became an ordained minister.
Afterward, he found Hollywood pay to be exceedingly better than what he could collect at his Sunday service. So, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood.