| missingky wrote: |
| . Doesn't anyone find it odd that the kids very rarely spent a full day at home? I know they were town kids but the town and city kids I knew way back when were not permitted to run the streets even in the 1950s! |
ABC (ended 1963)
| missingky wrote: |
| . Doesn't anyone find it odd that the kids very rarely spent a full day at home? I know they were town kids but the town and city kids I knew way back when were not permitted to run the streets even in the 1950s! |
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I wonder why Larry left the show?
Here's something I found on a website, which should answer your question. :-)
Robert Rusty Stevens
In 1963, Rusty and his family moved to Philadelphia. He and the lady he was to marry worked for an advertising company. He wrote copy and she designed art. He later became an insurance salesman and they live in New Jersey.
Rusty didn't tell his own wife he was a child star, until a man came to their door asking about it. Jerry Mathers told the details of this story at a book signing, about a detective search that was done to find Rusty Stevens who played Larry. The detective finally located the house where he lived. He went up to the front door inquiring about the child star. His wife responded by telling the individual that he had the wrong house. She went back in and told Rusty the story. Rusty said to his wife that the detective was correct in his assumption. Flabbergasted, his wife asked, Well, why didn't you ever tell me about this? Rusty told her, it never came up in the conversation.
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I think it was Larry's family that moved. His mother was always talking about his father having to take a business trip to Cincinnati. That's where they probably moved. Incidentally, Mrs. Mondello happened to be the identical twin sister of Aunt Harriet Cooper on Batman.
| wheelrchair wrote: |
| I know this is just a show, Why did Larry always talk Beaver into doing things that would get him in trouble. |
I know what you mean. Beaver is always getting into trouble because he follows the suggestions of his pals. It's almost as though he has no backbone? But then again, it brings me (and perhaps all of us?) back to those childhood days when we were very malleable to the influence of our friends without thinking through the consequences of our actions. I think that is part of the appeal of this show: because we see ourselves as Beaver back then, misled, often blindly following the poor advice of best friends, and, of course, that brings a chuckle. 
