- Beverly Garland
Infobox actor
name = Beverly Garland
imagesize = 200px
caption = in an episode of "Decoy" (1958)
birthdate = birth date and age|1926|10|17
birthplace =Santa Cruz, California , U.S.
birthname = Beverly Lucy Fessenden
othername = Beverly Campbell
occupation =Actress
spouse = Richard Garland (August 13 ,1951 - 1953)
Filmore Crank (May 23 ,1960 -March 10 ,1999 ) (his death)Beverly Garland (born
October 17 ,1926 ) is an American film and televisionactress , businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role asFred MacMurray 's second wife, Barbara Harper Douglas, in the long-running 1960ssitcom "My Three Sons " (a role she played from 1969 until the series ended in 1972). In the 1980s, she co-starred asKate Jackson 's widowed mother, Dotty West, in thetelevision series "Scarecrow and Mrs. King " on CBS. She also had a recurring role on the hit WB series "7th Heaven " starringStephen Collins .Biography
Early life & career
Garland was Beverly Lucy Fessenden in
Santa Cruz, California , the daughter of Amelia Rose, who worked in business, and James Atkins Fessenden, a singer and salesman. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/73/Beverly-Garland.html Beverly Garland Biography (1926-) ] ] Garland's 1950s roles tended to be tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. 1956 was a busy year for Garland as she played a female sheriff in the Western "Gunslinger", a prison escapee in "Swamp Women " and a scientist's wife who battles an alien in "It Conquered the World ". (All three movies were directed byRoger Corman and spoofed in the 1990s by "Mystery Science Theater 3000 ".) Garland then starred as undercover police officer Casey Jones in the syndicated TV series "Decoy" (1957), the first police series on American television created around a female protagonist.Television success
Although Garland co-starred with
Anthony Perkins andTuesday Weld in the 1968 feature film "Pretty Poison ", she is best known for playing suburban moms on several TV series. She was Barbara Harper Douglas, second wife of Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) for the final three seasons of "My Three Sons" (1969-72) and Dotty West, mother of Mrs. King (Kate Jackson) on all four seasons of the lighthearted espionage drama "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" (1983-87). Garland also was featured in the successful series "Remington Steele " as the mother of Stephanie Zimbalist's character, detective Laura Holt.Her decades of TV guest appearances range from the first-season "Twilight Zone" episode "The Four of Us Are Dying," about a con artist with a thousand faces (1960). Garland also guest starred in an episode in the final season of "Kung Fu". She reprised her earlier Western personae as a tough, gun-slinging widow. She appeared on the "
Mary Tyler Moore Show " as a long-ago girlfriend ofLou Grant . Garland also had a recurring role as Lois Lane's mother on the 1990s TV series "" starringTeri Hatcher .On radio, Garland is an original member of the repertory of players belonging to the California Actors Radio Theatre.
For her contribution to the television industry, Garland has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.Personal life
In 1999, her businessman husband of 39 years, Filmore Crank, died. Since then, Garland has combined her acting career with an increased devotion to the hotel Crank built and named for her. Situated on the former Gene Autry property, the sprawling 255-room resort style [http://www.beverlygarland.com/ Beverly Garland Holiday Inn and Conference Center] is located in North Hollywood.
Her daughter is actress
Carrington Garland , known for her portrayal of the third Kelly Capwell on thesoap opera "Santa Barbara". Garland still resides in the mid-century Hollywood Hills contemporary house that she and her husband purchased in the early 1960s.elected filmography
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* [http://www.beverlygarland.com/ Beverly Garland's Universal Studios Hollywood Hotel]Persondata
NAME= Garland, Beverly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Fessenden, Beverly Lucy; Campbell, Beverly
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH=October 17 ,1926
PLACE OF BIRTH=Santa Cruz, California , U.S.
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
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