Barbara Billingsley's 1st Marriage Divorce Notice

[CosmicCharlie]

Billingsley was born Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1915, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Lillian Agnes (née McLaughlin) and Robert Collyer Combes, a police officer.[2][3] She had one elder sibling, Elizabeth.[4] Her parents divorced sometime before her fourth birthday, and her father, who later became an assistant chief of police,[2] remarried.[5] After the divorce, Billingsley's mother began working as a foreman at a knitting mill.[6

After attending Los Angeles Junior College for one year, Billingsley traveled to Broadway, when Straw Hat, a revue in which she was appearing, attracted enough attention to send it to New York City. When the show closed after five days, she took an apartment on 57th Street and went to work as a $60-a-week fashion model. In 1941, she married Glenn Billingsley Sr. She landed a contract with MGM Studios in 1945, and moved with her husband to Los Angeles in 1946. That same year, Glenn Billingsley opened a steakhouse there.[7]

Billingsley was married three times and had two children. She married Glenn Billingsley, Sr. in 1941, a restaurateur and a nephew of Sherman Billingsley, owner of the Stork Club. His businesses included Billingsley's Golden Bull, Billingsley's Bocage, the Outrigger Polynesian restaurants in Los Angeles, and a Stork Club in Key West, Florida, where they lived briefly after their wedding.[16] They had two sons and divorced in 1947.[17]

In 1953 she married British-born movie director Roy Kellino. They were married until Kellino's death in 1956.[18] Billingsley's third and final marriage was to William S. Mortensen in 1959; they remained together until his death in 1981

I was amazed to find this newspaper clipping ...

[biffbronson]

Thank you for posting that. It's interesting that her 2nd husband passed away in 1956 (Nov.), while we know that LITB premiered in October of 1957. And she married again during the run of the series (in 1959). Certainly an eventful time for Barbara personally & professionally.

About her 2 sons, both born in the forties -- there's some info at PressReader.com

[Stepperry40]

When would casting been calling people for since the show premiered in October of 1957? When was the pilot “It’s a Small World” filmed we know it was aired on April 23, 1957?

[Yong Fang]

I wonder why she kept the name of her divorced forst husband as a professional name?

[Yong Fang]

She was pretty, even as an older woman. Pretty is the most accurate way to see her.

The picture on the left is not her.

[Dude111]

Interesting....