Hugh Beaumont as the Anit-Ward

[frani]

I just saw HB in a movie I bought on ebay. It's called Money Madness and he is this horrible man -- a their, murderer, all around mean guy. Kind of sexy though. I totally admit to having a thing for Hugh Beaumont.

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[BBF]

A lot of people think Hugh is sexy. I don't, but I can see why people do. I heard that before LITB, Hugh always played the "Bad Guy" I thought that was pretty interesting.

[desilu #1]

Here's another old post I just had to reply to. I totally agree that Hugh was sexy. First of all, I love a man in a suit and tie! But it was the way he acted as a husband and father. He also had a good sense of humor and I really liked the way he was with June.
He could tease her and have so much fun doing it. Even though the show was clean you could see that Ward and June had a good sexual chemistry as well.:D

[Commander Benson]

Long before his Leave It to Beaver days, Hugh Beaumont played the pulp novel detective Michael Shayne in a series of five B-movies in 1946-7. He played a similar character--Dennis O'Brien--in a trio of low-budget films in 1951.

Both of these characters were of the same moral rectitude as Ward Cleaver, although they were harder around the edges.

I have often amused myself in the past by entertaining the playful notion that these B-movies showed us what Ward did when he was at work.

Every day, he kisses June good-bye and heads off for work. He arrives at his second-floor-walk-up office, straps on his shoulder holster, exchanges some banter with his secretary Phyllis, and cleans up crime and corruption in Mayfield. Fred Rutherford is one of his stoolies. Larry Mondello's almost-never-seen father isn't on a "business trip"; that's just a white lie told Larry by his mother. Actually, Larry's dad is doing a stretch in prison, after Ward caught him embezzling from his employer.

At the end of a day of detecting and knocking heads, Ward slips his .38 back in the desk drawer and drives home to June and the boys.

At home, Ward dispenses moral guidance by patient lectures to Wally and the Beaver; at work, he dispenses it from the end of a gun.


Just a bit of whimsy, but think about it.



Commander Benson

[frani]

That's hysterical!!!:rotflmao: