Former Playboy Playmate and Actress June Blair Cause of Death, Revealed

June Blair, a former Playboy playmate and actress who played David Nelson's real-life wife on 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,' has passed away. 90 years old.

According to her daughter-in-law Susan Nelson, the celebrity and "beloved mom" died on December 5 at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, of natural causes.

Actress June Blair Passes Away

Before being awarded the lead part in the noir movie 'Hell Bound' with John Russell, Blair was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in January 1957. Blair portrayed Paula, a woman who after World War II finds herself caught up in a crime enterprise in Los Angeles.

June Blair starred as Judy Colt, a perilous secretary for a construction company, in 'The Rabbit Trap' in 1959. Don Rickles and Ernest Borgnine both acted in the movie.

She appeared in the adventure film 'Island of Lost Women' that same year, which also included future 'Batman' butler Alan Napier, Venetia Stevenson, dubbed "the most attractive girl in the world," and Diane Jergens.

When Blair and David became engaged in 1961, Blair had just finished playing a saloonkeeper in the television show 'Two Faces West.' The pair wed that year, with David's younger brother Ricky Nelson acting as the best man, a as per Fox News.

Who is June Blair?

According to Variety, the actress was born on October 30, 1932, in San Francisco. She was raised as a California state ward after her parents abandoned her. Blair made her debut on television in 1956 on 'Our Miss Brooks' on CBS.

She would sometimes appear in other television programs and play supporting roles in a number of movies during the rest of the 1950s. ' The Girl He Left Behin'd, 'This Could Be the Night', 'Man of a Thousand Faces', 'My Man Godfrey', and 'The Best of Everything' all featured her in uncredited parts.

She earned Playboy's Playmate of the Month in January 1957. 'Look Up', 'The Aquanauts, Bat Masterson', 'The Chevy Mystery Show', 'M Squad, Sea Hunt', 'Tombstone Territory', 'The Texan', and 'Hawaiian Eye' are a few of her other acting credits.

When Nelson made an appearance on the Western series 'Two Faces West' in 1961, Blair got to know him. She ceased performing after' The Adventures of Ozzie' and 'Harriet' ended that year, and they were married. Blair never remarried following their 1975 divorce from Nelson.

Nelson married Yvonne O'Connor Huston, his second wife, in 1975. He passed away in January 2011 at the age of 74. Daniel and James, the two boys she had with Nelson, and Paige, her granddaughter, survive Blair.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blair stated in 1963, "I've always been an independent girl." "The Nelsons haven't attempted to "absorb" me, as I had feared they might. They're there when I need them and absent when I don't, according on how things have turned out."