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.
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!
Fans of Ken Osmond Also Thought He Was John Holmes
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!
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.
Tragedy Marked Hugh Beaumont’s Life
When Beaumont got the role of Ward, he decided to move his family out to Hollywood. He had been commuting from Minnesota, but a weekly series would require him to be in California.
When his wife, son, and mother-in-law were driving out west, a terrible crash killed his mother-in-law and badly injured his son. He said the tragic accident made work difficult and as if he was just going through the motions.