Beverly Garland

Beverly Garland 19262008 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 costarred as Kate Jacksons 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 gueststar assignments on television Garland rapidly earned a reputation as a good luck charm for TVpilot 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 costarred 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 mid1950s Garland was briefly the inamorata of quickie producerdirector 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 everyones favorite TV wife or mother she played Bing Crosbys wife in The Bing Crosby Show 1964 Fred MacMurrays wife on the last three seasons 196972 of My Three Sons Stephanie Zimbalists mother in Remington Steele 198286 and Kate Jacksons mother on Scarecrow and Mrs King 198387 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