RUSTY STEVENS TV

'Nobody could find him for the longest time,' Mathers told The Pantagraph in 1982, nearly two decades after Rusty had disappeared. Jerry Mathers kept searching for his old friend and was frustrated with how long it took to finally reunite. Everybody except his old buddy Beaver, that is. Whatever happened, Rusty's family moved to Pennsylvania, and the last few projects he had acted in continued airing over the next few years, as Rusty gave up the life of a child star and traded it back for a normal childhood. His acting career could've kept on going after Leave It to Beaver ended, but instead his parents decided to end his contract with the show and leave Los Angeles suddenly.Īccording to Leave It to Beaver star Barbara Billingsley, the issue may have been that producers weren’t fans of Stevens' overbearing mother. Stevens continued appearing on Leave It to Beaver over 67 episodes while also appearing on shows like 77 Sunset Strip and Shirley Temple’s Storybook.

RUSTY STEVENS TV

That year Rusty made his TV debut on Leave It to Beaver, becoming known to audiences as one of Beaver's very best pals. But his mom admitted he loved to watch movies and TV Westerns and act out the parts around the house. In all of Rusty's life, he'd never once been asked to act in anything, not a school play or a church skit, nothing. 'The studio people say he's a real discovery,' his mom told The Valley Times - the very newspaper her son had been selling - in 1957. Rusty had been selling those papers for 10 months without anyone paying any attention to him, but to Lola, there was just something about him.

Did you know? Let's not forget that Beverly Clearly wrote Leave It to Beaver books, tooĪt that time, he was working as a paperboy, selling newspapers on a street corner, when a children's talent scout named Lola Moore happened to see him.

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