Barbara Billingsley beyond Leave it to Beaver

This week in 1980 Airplane hit theaters . Barbra Billingsley told us in an interview that she improvised this scene as “Jive Lady” The 2 guys she spoke jive to took her to lunch and taught her Jive. Helped her how to deliver Jive and sound authentic. Mrs. Clever crushed it & that part of Airplane was memorable. #airplanethemovie | Doug Dodds

In the 1980 movie "Airplane", Barbara Billingsley was handed a script that told her to speak jive. Not knowing how to speak jive , she went to lunch with the two black actors in the scene (Al White and Norman Alexander Gibbs) to learn jive. The three of them improvised the whole scene.