June Cleaver's Necklace
- Each episode of the sitcom LEAVE IT TO
BEAVER/CBS/ABC/1957-63, actress Barbara
Billingsley played June Cleaver, a traditional
1950s housewife who dressed nicely in simple but
smart dresses and wore her trademark necklace of
white pearls.
According to series' star Jerry "The Beaver"
Mathers (in an interview in 1982) Barbara
Billingsley was self conscious about a deep
wrinkle at the base of her neck ("that looked
like an tracheotomy scar") and so she chose to
wear a strand of pearls to distract the eyes of
the viewers (per "The 1st Leave It To Beaver
Website)
The
Cleaver family: Theodore "Beaver," older
brother, Wally and parents, June and Ward
