Editing June Cleaver (section)

{{Short description|American television fictional character}}
{{Infobox character
| name               = June Cleaver
| image              = June and Ward Cleaver Leave it to Beaver 1958.JPG
| image_size         = 220px
| caption            = Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as June and Ward Cleaver.
| first              = "[[It's a Small World (Leave It to Beaver)|It's a Small World]]" (pilot episode) (April 23, 1957)
| last               = ''[[Leave It to Beaver (film)|Leave It to Beaver]]'' (film adaptation, 1997)
| creator            = Joe Connelly<br />Bob Mosher
| portrayer          = [[Barbara Billingsley]] (television series)<br>[[Janine Turner]] ([[Leave It to Beaver (film)|1997 film adaptation]])
| occupation         = Homemaker
| spouse             = [[Ward Cleaver]] (widowed)
| gender             = Female
| family             = Theodore Bronson (father)<br />Peggy (sister)
| children           = [[Wally Cleaver|Wallace "Wally" Cleaver]]<br>[[Theodore Cleaver|Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver]]
| relatives          = {{plainlist|
* Wilbur Bronson (uncle)
* [[Martha Bronson]] (aunt)
* Kip Cleaver (grandson)
* Oliver Cleaver (grandson)
* Kelly Cleaver (granddaughter)
* Kevin Cleaver (grandson)
* Unnamed niece
}}
}}

'''June Evelyn Bronson Cleaver''' is a principal character in the American [[television]] [[situational comedy|sitcom]] ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]''. June and her husband, [[Ward Cleaver|Ward]], are often invoked as the archetypal suburban parents of the 1950s. The couple are the parents of two sons, [[Wally Cleaver|Wally]] and "[[Beaver Cleaver|Beaver]]". Wally is twelve years old and in the seventh grade when the series opens; Beaver is seven years old ("almost eight") and in the second grade. Episodes followed the escapades of Wally and Beaver and usually ended with a moral lesson delivered to the boys, but also often included reminders of childhood and minor lessons for the parents through the adventures of their boys. She was included in [[Yahoo!]]'s Top 10 TV Moms from Six Decades of Television for the time period 1957–1963.<ref>{{cite web|last=Adair |first=Aly |title=Top 10 Favorite TV Moms |url=http://voices.yahoo.com/top-10-favorite-tv-moms-2778263.html?cat=25 |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=June 17, 2012 |date=February 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021092742/http://voices.yahoo.com/top-10-favorite-tv-moms-2778263.html?cat=25 |archive-date=October 21, 2012 }}</ref>

June is played by [[Barbara Billingsley]] in both the pilot, [[It's a Small World (Leave It to Beaver episode)|"It's a Small World"]] (which aired in April 1957 on ''Studio '57''), and in the original television series. Billingsley also plays the character in the show's television reunion movie, ''Still the Beaver'' (1983), and the show's sequel series, ''The New Leave It to Beaver'' (1985—1989). In the sequel series, Wally and Beaver are both parents, and June is a grandmother. [[Janine Turner]] played June in the [[1997 in film|1997]] [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] [[film adaptation]] of the original series, [[Leave It to Beaver (film)|''Leave It to Beaver'']]. Billingsley made a cameo appearance in the spin-off film as Aunt Martha.