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It's a Small World: Directed by Jerry Hopper. With Barbara Billingsley, Max Showalter, Jerry Mathers, Paul Sullivan. Sneaky Frankie Bennett tells Beaver that he can win a new bicycle by entering a popular television show's Franklin Milk bottle-cap contest, but Beaver and big brother Wally cause quite a commotion at the milk company's office ...
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- Comedy, Family
- Jerry Hopper
- 1957-04-23
Max Showalter (appearing as Casey Adams) plays Ward in the series' pilot, "It's a Small World", which aired in April 1957. Many of the Leave It to Beaver players were featured in their original roles in a reunion movie televised in 1983 (Still the Beaver) and a sequel series called The New Leave It to Beaver that aired from 1985 to 1989. Hugh ...
The following year, billed as Casey Adams, he appeared as Ward Cleaver in "It's a Small World", the original pilot for the 1950s sitcom Leave It to Beaver. The pilot was broadcast as an episode of the Studio 57 anthology series. [6]
In addition to his films, TV appearances (over 1000), and stage shows, Showalter was a composer, a songwriter, and pianist. In his later years he lived in an 18th-century farmhouse in the Connecticut town he fell in love with while shooting the movie It Happened to Jane (1959). Born June 2, 1917. Died July 30, 2000 (83)
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- Caldwell, Kansas, USA
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- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Aug 2, 2000 · Showalter played the role of Ward Cleaver in the pilot episode of “Leave It to Beaver.” He left Hollywood in the mid-1980s, settling in Chester, Conn., a town he fell in love with while...
"It's a Small World" is the pilot episode from the American television series Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963). The pilot (originally proposed as Wally and The Beaver) was first televised April 23, 1957, on the syndicated anthology series, Studio 57, without a laugh track nor the series' well known theme song, "The Toy Parade".
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