[IronJack]

Long before she was Mary Richards she was Laura Petrie. And while feisty enough, Laura was anything but a feminist. She was as archetypal a housewife as June Cleaver, if not quite as smarmy.

[dznutz]

In the mid 50's she was in Hotpoint appliance commercials. Hotpoint commercial link

[GreenHornet]

She was as archetypal a housewife as June Cleaver

Yeah, but could she speak jive?

[IrishBrigade]

She was as archetypal a housewife as June Cleaver, if not quite as smarmy.

smarmy...?you must be confusing June Cleaver with Eldridge...