Beverly Garland
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Beverly Garland (1926–2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence with her role on My Three Sons. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Kate Jackson's widowed mother on Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She also had a recurring role as on 7th Heaven. Had the Fates smiled upon her, the versatile Beverly Garland would have been one of the biggest female stars in films. She started out well, with a plum part in the noir classic DOA (1949), in which she was billed as Beverly Campbell. Alas, Garland was never one to keep her opinions to herself, and her pointed comments about some of her DOA colleagues turned her into a Hollywood pariah before her career had even begun. She eventually worked her way back up the ladder with supporting roles in theatrical features and guest-star assignments on television. Garland rapidly earned a reputation as a "good luck charm" for TV-pilot producers, who could usually count on a sale if Garland was featured in their product. She guested on the first episode of Medic as an expectant leukemia victim, and was co-starred in the pilots of no fewer than three Rod Cameron TV vehicles: City Detective, State Trooper and Coronado 9, all of which sold. In the mid-1950s, Garland was briefly the inamorata of quickie producer/director Roger Corman, who prominently cast her in such cheapies as It Conquered the World (1955) and Not of This Earth (1956). She starred in the 1957 syndicated TV series Policewoman Decoy, which permitted her to adopt a variety of convincing guises in the line of duty. From the 1960s on, Garland was everyone's favorite TV wife or mother: she played Bing Crosby's wife in The Bing Crosby Show (1964), Fred MacMurray's wife on the last three seasons (1969-72) of My Three Sons, Stephanie Zimbalist's mother in Remington Steele (1982-86) and Kate Jackson's mother on Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983-87). Active into the 1990s, Beverly Garland supplemented her acting income with her job as spokesperson for a major Midwestern travel agency. She died in 2008 at age
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Credits
Airport 1975 (1974)
as Mrs. Scott Freeman
Pretty Poison (1968)
as Mrs. Stepanek
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003)
as Aunt Jessica
The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Miss Swift
It Conquered the World (1956)
as Claire Anderson
The Joker is Wild (1957)
as Cassie Mack
And Then They Forgot God (1971)
as Vilma Thompson
Not of This Earth (1957)
as Nadine Story
It's My Turn (1980)
as Emma
The Mad Room (1969)
as Mrs. Racine
The Alligator People (1959)
as Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
as Mother
The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
as Mona Langley
D.O.A. (1949)
as Miss Foster
This Girl for Hire (1983)
as Evan Picard
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)
as Myrna Anderson
To The Moon, Alice (1991)
as Personnel Manager
A Life of Her Own (1950)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Hellfire (1995)
as Carlotta
Roller Boogie (1979)
as Lillian Barkley
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces (1995)
as Self
The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid (1990)
as Brenda's Mother
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
as Alice Pyncheon
The Edge of Innocence (1957)
as Gay Sherman
Problem Girls (1953)
as Nancy Eaton
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door (1996)
as Self
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
as Helen Backsler
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)
as Self
Finding the Way Home (1991)
as Arlene Mittelman
Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
as Gail Sterling
Stark Fear (1962)
as Ellen Winslow
New York Confidential (1955)
Actor
Cutter's Trail (1970)
as Maggie
Drive-In Movie Memories (2001)
Actor
Voyage of the Yes (1973)
as Agatha Markwell
The Miami Story (1954)
as Holly Abbott
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
as Dr. Andrea Romar
The Wish That Changed Christmas (1991)
as Miss Shepherd (voice)
The Desperado (1954)
as Laurie Bannerman
Bitter Creek (1954)
as Gail Bonner
Gunslinger (1956)
as Marshal Rose Hood
The Weekend Nun (1972)
as Bobby Sue Prewitt
Death Falls (1991)
as Mae Baxter
New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
as Marie Reilly
The Steel Jungle (1956)
as Frances 'Francie' Novak
The Healers (1974)
as Laura Kier
Unwed Father (1974)
as Estelle
Gundown at Sandoval (1959)
as Mrs. Amanda Barko
Naked Paradise (1957)
as Max MacKenzie
The Deadly Volley (1975)
as Team Owner
Chicago Confidential (1957)
as Laura Barton
Swamp Women (1956)
as Vera
Frank Sinatra Memorial (2000)
as Self
The Rocket Man (1954)
as Ludine
The Neanderthal Man (1953)
as Nola Mason, bar waitress
Killer Leopard (1954)
as Linda Winters
The Fabulous Oliver Chantry (1953)
as Parker
Badlands of Montana (1957)
as Susan Hammer
Sudden Danger (1955)
as Phyllis Baxter
Calhoun (1964)
as Nan Sloane
Abraham's Sacrifice (1979)
as Sarah
The Go-Getter (1956)
as Peggy
Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Years (1997)
as Self
Gamble on Love (1982)
as Kitty
Sixth and Main (1977)
as Monica Cord
If (2003)
as Katherine