Barbara Billingsley on speaking "jive" in "Airplane" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

[2legit64]

THE funniest scene in the whole movie made even funnier because of Barbara Billingsley.

[mngentry]

Elegance...

That's all I'm going to say.

[mrceebees14]

I was going to say "she is still alive?"

She died in October, just shy of 5 months after this interview was done.

R.I.P. "Sweet Momma"

[exactlyvague]

Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...eg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em! COL' got to be! Y'know? Shiiiiit.

[Steelback70]

I was so disappointed when they reported her death. This should have been a much bigger story. I would have loved to know that she was still with us all this time.

[manco82]

Once you go black, you never go back!

[gordogreat74]

She always seemed so sweet! When I hear her voice though I will always think of her role as "Nanny" on Muppet Babies. =:)

[DutchKalhoun]

R.I.P. Barbara Billingsley/Nanny from the Muppet Babies.

[mysterymediacorp]

Ha Ha around 2:00 - "blood don't want no help,blood don't get no help"...LOL

[cometrally]

This lady was cool as hell. Just gonna put that out there.

[donaldsoninc]

this totally made me smile

[purplelighswitch]

She was a beautiful lady



[jjaecks71]

my grandfather, who was born in 1904, used the term "colored" and didn't mean anything racist by it. The African Americans I know prefer "black". "Black" might not be accurate, but "white" isn't that accurate either. Native Americans I know don't mind "Indian", but with the growing population FROM India, using "Native American" isn't a matter of being PC, it's a matter of being clear.

[GayLexFratGuy]

Funniest words ever spoken by Barbara Billingsley on film was the line from Leave it to Beaver when she said, "Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night weren't you?" In the 50's this didn't mean anything compared to what it is today.

[AlwaysWishing1983]

Do you guys know that Barbara Billingsley was 94 when she died???

Cool lady.

[funkbrother216]

I've watched Airplane for ages and loved that scene. I never made the connection that the old white lady was Mrs. Cleaver! That just makes it funnier.

[djslipdisk]

Lovely lady

[BEANPOLE111]

Anybody know the name of the book she mentions on jive??? Thanks a bunch!

[CounterCultureLives]

@BEANPOLE111 "Learning To Speak Jive For Dummies"??

[lancetop]

We'll always love you dear Barbara, and we'll always appreciate you interpreting Jive for us:)

[zaniac100]

The "Aunt Barbara!" bit is great. Not expecting his Aunt to be in the film. It is a funny scene; she plays it well.

[rachybaby72]

@TejMulen Jamaican?? They weren't Jamaican. That wasn't Jamaican patois, it was American jive.

[rcha1982]

Too funny!!!!!

[Z0hann]

This is a time when calling two black fellas two black fellas was not racist. She obviously did not mean it as racist either. Man fuck the world today sometimes.

[Nudedude555]

@Z0hann hahaha i was gona make a racist comment to prove a point and i cant say the n word

[realityme]

@Z0hann When was calling two black fellas two black fellas ever racist? I have been black ALL my life and I don't kno what the hell your talking about.

[MaHaRushie]

@Z0hann Ummm.... Most blacks prefer to be called black. Was it ever considered racist? Why would you even bring that up???

[TimeStrider]

@Z0hann Da world be becomin' one big anus!

[Setzer]

@Z0hann calling someone black is no more racist than calling someone white.

[sluggo06]

What do u think happens after we die?

[razzza]

@TejMulen Too bad that the 2 guys aren't Jamaican. Nice try tho.

[itsmoo2k]

did she whitey !!!???? lol...

[Shootark]

How did she die?

[gudivningvarun555]

@Shootark polymyalgia.

[spyvsbly]

"I was put in touch with a gal at Paramount who talked jive..." So serious LOL

[dackjawson]

Anyone know when this interview was taped? I heard she was confined to her home since December 2009.

[playbonb3]

Hey looka here sucka....talkin' all dat smack. Honkey wanna ride my black han side up and down da freeway. Check da beat blood, and slide me some a dat java. Blood lids on the other tip.

Translation: Rest in Peace Barbara Billingsley

[ririsoosoo]

You know Whitey was a character on Leave it to Beaver - he was one of the Beav's best friends.

[Spudskie]

Barbara Billingsley and Leslie Nielsen, RIP.

[sdnm86]

According to Barbara, that smattering of lines containing jive talk single-handedly resurrected her career. That's an interesting tidbit of information on this well-respected actress. R.I.P.

[blindandwatching]

@sdnm86 The producers intentionally cast actors who didn't perform comedy normally to play rolls in the movie. Leslie Nielsen and Barbra Billingsley got the greatest benefit from it. Nielsen went from being a movie of the week actor to getting top billing in movies. He was as big as he was back in the early 1960s.

[aitraining]

She looks great here!

[BettorOffSingle]

No one lives forever, but the loss of this amazing lady at any age is a tragedy.

[xvoodo999]

@BettorOffSingle No, the tragedy of my fart wandering into your nostrils is the biggest tragedy you will ever face.

[superblaster2]

@xvoodo999 Get offa dude's back, man! Sho' you bin back wit that hickey booty, but ain't got no ruffin' fo' gettin' down up with some no rhythm sucker!

[bearnurse1]

@superblaster2 Hmmph! I KNOW that's right, hon!

[Archangel3583]

169 likes and NO dislikes. That's the best ratio I've ever seen on Youtube.

[mandroid74]

Beautiful Lady, Those Actors back then just had a certain kind of Class and Charisma!!

RIP:-)

[sdnm86]

@mandroid74 I agree. They did have a certain kind of class and charm. Nowadays, actors are narcissistic, self-indulgent and shameless beyond belief.

[Zeitgeist74]

She said, "whitey"! LMAO

[zoofariatl]

Thanks for posting. I run the Barbara Billingsley fan page on facebook. Please join.

[TheJediCharles]

It's funny she reveals that they actually did need the aid of the black guys to actually write the jive. It had to be "the real stuff."

[AtheistGorilla]

Hey June, how's the beave? cough

[davidnarbett]

RIP

[LEB460]

I love and miss you Aunt Barbara!

[BryanOQuinnTV]

June Clever .. One of the greatest TV Moms ever! ....Rest In Peace -- Dear Barbara Billingsley December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010

[clarkkent502]

did she just say whitey? LOL classic loves it rip barb

[SHRINA17]

@clarkkent502 --I know...I cracked up with that!

[DSSJsuggs]

she was so great it was like losing a mother rest in peace lady barbara we will miss you...

[StaunchComic]

R.I.P Barbara!

[junedeon]

"Chump don't want the help, chump don't GET the help!" LOL. I miss Barb already. RIP.

[sactiger]

We have lost a truly elegant, gracious lady... R.I.P., Barbara. And thanx for all the laughs and entertainment!! :)

[GreggtheG]

RIP Babs

[XL500GT]

Image what it would had been like if she was guess star on the Jeffersons talking jive with ol George Jefferson!!!!! Or better yet Florence, LOL

[Outlaw1257]

RIP, Barbara!! hanks for the memories, Thanks for the laughs!!

[xxbigmamacitaxx]

Such a classy woman. RIP Barbara Billingsley "June Cleaver"

[justlilyanne]

Rest in Peace, Barbara!

[syndicatefive]

To break with every tradition and have that amount of fun would be liberating. Rest in peace, Barbara.

[Celluloidkid]

RIP Barbara Billingsley ...... Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,for life's but a thing of terrible gravity. And the planets gravitate around you,and the stars shall dance about you, and the angels in heaven adore you, and the saints all stand and applaud you. So faraway, so faraway and yet so close.

Nick Cave, "Far Away, So Close"

[morrigansylvan]

RIP Barbara Billingsley

[vtoodler]

That woman never seemed to age.

[SuperPussyFinger]

Listen to her passing the buck.

[sbflash311]

Didn't Barbara play "an axe-murderer who looks like June Cleaver" on "Barney Miller?" I couldn't find any mention of that role in her Wikipedia entry.

[Actionguy1]

Rest ye well Mrs Cleaver.

[deer45218]

RIP June

[shopwreckin]

RIP to one of America's greatest TV mothers.

[ThePolyweave]

She is post racial!!!!!! way back then........In the 80's Then this brotha comes along and seriously stirs the pot. im purple ,can i have a voice too.

[somejackball]

we'll miss you! be@peace

[luckydevils]

To Glenn and Drew: Thanks for sharing your Mom with us. She was appreciated and will be missed by many.

[alimony812]

r.i.p my tv mom

[TheRadicalreels]

The World has lost a very king Woman... Rest in Peace

[jroush20032000]

I LOVED June Cleaver growing up. What a nice lady...Yuu will live on in re-runs forever. God bless you B.B.

[kinoptika]

RIP, JIVE LADY!

[cbarrett34]

RIP June

[LoneTinaja]

I was a kid in the 1950's when "Leave It To Beaver"

began. June Cleaver always wore nice clothes &

pearls, as Barbara is here. The difference is Mrs.

Cleaver never said "They didn't want Whitey to know

what they were talking about". But Mrs. Cleaver did

use the word "Whitey" in the show on many

occasions. If you're a "Leave It To Beaver" fan you

know what I mean. Barbara, thanks for all the

memories.

[darchylde612]

goodnight barbara billingsley aka june cleaver aka "the jive lady" in airplane; rest in peace gracious lady.....

[chaksheba]

RIP..SHE WAS AWESOME!

[JElliott8199]

They didn't want whitey to know what they were talking about!!!! LOL!!!

[MEP4000]

RIP June Cleaver

[Bluebonnett52]

Rest in Peace, Jive Lady/Nanny/Mrs. Cleaver.

[vaportrails44]

Loved her. God Bless your soul Mrs. Billingsley

[tarojmu]

RIP... :)



[dovie2blue]

What a beautiful lady she was.

[thedangernation]

I love she drops the word "Whitey" into the conversation.... I'll miss you Mrs Cleaver, say hi to Ward and Fred Rutherford for me...:)

[voogun]

RIP... and God Bless you Mrs. June Cleaver.

[Feetie39]

RIP dear!

[rpwVideoInstruction]

LMAO Met the two black fellas.....they didn't want whitey to know what they were talking about. You were a queen, good lady, RIP.

[Renzero89]

RIP mom... Thank you for the times, and your great talent. You will be missed.,.

[charles0732]

God rest this dear lady!!

[ptm2020]

rip. you were so awesome and you will be deeply missed.

[quaiddd]

did you know they have a book out? about JIVE???

[roblou62]

Rest in Peace homegirl b. (lol)

[jogman]

God Bless Barbara Billingsley!

Goodnight, June Cleaver...

[tfan68]

RIP Mrs. Cleaver.....

[gynecolog1st]

2:00 she re-stated the 2 of 3 lines she had in the movie airplane speaking Jive,..and still fucked it up,. lol as she was speaking about it being easy for her

[sgtpepper1138]

@gynecolog1st That was like THIRTY YEARS AGO, I'm sure at the time it was easier because they guys were helping her with it. Heck i'm going back to school after a decade and stuff that was easy for me then, isn't as easy as it used to be because my brain hasn't been thinking about that for forever. That's only 10 years, Airplane was THIRTY.

[newnilzizi]

Lol, during her pauses i thought the video froze!

[downwithutube]

She had the thousand-yard stare at 1:51 LOL

"...couldn't figure out jive..." *insert sounds of war and helicopters

[goldie1102]

I love that shes still wearing pearls

[coldlampin]

I don't know if it's the way she enunciates or what, but she's hot.

[chef423]

@coldlampin I would agree...talk aout beauty beyond years.

[marekp]

I wonder when this was recorded? She's 95 years old now.... It was 10 years ago i just found the info!

[davemelnick]

Billingsley easily masters 1 of my favorite scenes of Airplane. Given, the whole movie is non-stop laughs

[mac195000]

LOL ... hearing her talk seriously about it is even funnier than the movie.

[Unomatocato]

Awesome scene,,,,,very funny,

[mados123]

They didn't want whitey to know what they were talking about!

[BRUC2016]

Barbara B. is one great person. Of all the great comedic scenes in that classic movie (and there were many) who knew that June Cleaver would show up speaking jive-ass to a couple of bruthas? The premise was hysterical and absurd (like the rest of the movie), and she pulled the scene off flawlessly. (I also laughed out loud at the Israeli airplane dressed up like a rabbi....genius).

[artrainger]

Barbara Billingsley is freaking cool!

[galen1809]

met th the two black fellers.....lol

[crankylifter]

@galen1809 I remember my grandmother would refer to blacks or African-Americans as "colored". There would be a scant few of any race who might take umbrage with that term, but if anything it only illustrates the reality of how often the terms we use in the English language change through the generations.

[kentamitchell]

@crankylifter Correct. Wilt Chamberlain once commented that he started out as a colored man and wound up as a man of color.

[PaulGrantDesigns]

@galen1809 Different times. I'm sure she doesn't mean anything by it. In our PC culture, you're not supposed to ID people on their most dominent traits. However, a black man could probably easily get away with "so I met up with these two silly talking white dudes", and no one would batt a lash.

[jsusax03]

@galen1809 LOL!!!!!

[Star841]

"Pig Latin... you can figure that out... but jive... " *stares off in the distance*

LMAO!

[planetery]

Awesome. :-D