R.I.P. Barbara Billingsley

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.19.10 | 11:50 AM ET

She most famously played June Cleaver on “Leave It to Beaver,” but we’ll always remember her for the scene she stole in Airplane! She was 94.

Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.

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TambourineMan 10.19.10 | 2:14 PM ET

“What it is, big mama? My mama didn’t raise no dummy. I dug her rap!”

RIP Big Mama Billingsley

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