Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland ( born Beverly Lucy Fessenden, born October 17, 1926 in Santa Cruz, California, † December 5, 2008 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film and television actress.
Life
Beverly Garland studied dramatics under Anita Arliss, the sister of renowned stage and screen actor George Arliss. She played in a small theater in Glendale and later - after her family had moved to Arizona - Phoenix.
Early in her career she worked for the radio and played - just dressed - in a few short films before she gave her debut in 1949 in a supporting role in the thriller DOA (german DOA). Since the 1950s she appeared in numerous films, including B-movies with cult status, as well as to a ripe old age in numerous television series.
Garland's roles in the 1950s tended mostly to those strong women who manage their lives in violent situations. Alone in 1956, she played a female sheriff in the Western Sunday you shall die (English Gunslinger ), a Gefängnisausbrecherin in four women in the swamp (English Swamp Women) and the wife of a scientist who fights an alien in It Conquered the World. All three films were parodied in the 1990s in the Mystery Science Theater 3000.
1957 Garland played the undercover investigator border Casey Jones in the television series Decoy; it was the first police series in U.S. television, whose protagonist was a woman. But the general public is known by embodying two suburban mothers: she played from 1969 to 1972, the second wife of the figure Steve Douglas (played by Fred MacMurray ) in the last three seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons, and from 1983 to 1987 Dotty West, the mother of Amanda King (played by Kate Jackson), in all four seasons of the spy series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She also had a recurring role as Laura Holt's mother during the first season of Remington Steele ( 1982-1983 ) and later as Lois Lane's mother in Superman - Lois & Clark (1995 to 1997).
Among her many guest appearances on television included a role in the episode " The Four of Us Are Dying " in the first season of The Twilight Zone (1960) and the recurring figure Ginger Jackson in the Family Series A heavenly family among others.
Your last name she wore with the actor Richard Garland, from which they divorced in 1953 after four years of marriage since their marriage. In 1960 she married the real estate agents Fillmore Crank, with whom she remained married until his death in 1999. Fillmore Crank built two hotels that bear her name. Until her death in 2008 she took care of, in addition to her acting career to the 255 spaces comprehensive resort hotel " Beverly Garland Holiday Inn and Conference Center " in North Hollywood, California.
Beverly Garland was honored with a "star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Garland's daughter is actress Carrington Garland, who became known for her role as Kelly Capwell in the American soap opera Santa Barbara.