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{{Infobox person
| name        = Beverly Garland
| image       = Beverly Garland 1969.JPG
| imagesize   = 200px
| caption     = Garland in 1969.
| birth_date   = {{birth date|mf=yes|1926|10|17}}
| birth_place  = [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]], [[California]], USA
| death_date   = {{dda|2008|12|5|1926|10|17}}
| death_place  = [[Hollywood Hills, California|Hollywood Hills]], California
| birth_name   = Beverly Lucy Fessenden
| othername   = Beverly Campbell
| occupation  = Actress
| years_active = 1950–2005
| spouse      = Bob Campbell (1945)<br>Richard Garland (1951–1953)<br>Filmore Crank (1960–1999, his death) 2 children
}}

'''Beverly Garland''' (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as [[Fred MacMurray]]'s second wife, Barbara Harper Douglas, in the 1960s [[sitcom]] ''[[My Three Sons]]'',a role which she played from 1969 until the series ended in 1972 and for which she is particularly identified. In the 1980s, she co-starred as [[Kate Jackson]]'s widowed mother, "Dotty West", in the [[CBS]] [[television series]] ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]''. She also had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on [[The WB Television Network]] series ''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''.

==Biography==

===Early life and career===
Garland was born '''Beverly Lucy Fessenden''' in [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]], [[California]], the daughter of Amelia Rose, a businesswoman, and James Atkins Fessenden, a singer and salesman.<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/73/Beverly-Garland.html Beverly Garland Biography (1926-)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Garland grew up in [[Glendale, California]]. Her 1950s acting roles tended to be tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. One such role was as a secrets-keeping secretary in the classic film noir "D.O.A"—in which her screen credit was "Beverly Campbell."  1956 was a busy year for Garland: she played a female [[marshal]] in the Western ''[[Gunslinger (1956 film)|Gunslinger]]'' with [[Chris Alcaide]] as her deputy; 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 by [[Roger Corman]] and riffed in the 1990s by ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.

==Television success==

Garland from 1957 to 1958 as undercover police officer "Casey Jones" in the [[Television syndication|syndicated]] [[television series]] ''[[Decoy (TV series)|Decoy]]''. Oddly, [[Alan Hale, Jr.]], appeared at the time in a syndicated adventure series, ''[[Casey Jones (TV series)|Casey Jones]]'', loosely based on the railroad engineer from [[Tennessee]]. ''Decoy'' is the first American television police series with a woman in the starring role. It lasted a single season of thirty-nine episodes.

Garland guest starred in 1956 as Nelli Austin, a [[rodeo]] sharpshooter, in the episode "Rodeo Rough House" of [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]]'s [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] drama series, ''[[State Trooper (TV series)|State Trooper]]''. [[Claude Akins]] appeared in this episode as the murderous but unnamed rodeo clown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709703/|title="Rodeo Rough House", ''State Trooper'', February 3, 1956|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|accessdate=March 8, 2013}}</ref> Garland and Akins appeared together again in the 1960 episode "Prison Trail" , ''[[Wanted, Dead or Alive(TV series]]'' and again in the 1963 episode "The Chooser of the Slain" of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Warner Brothers]] western series, ''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0553224/|title="The Chooser of the Slain", ''The Dakotas'', April 22, 1963|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 8, 2013}}</ref>

In 1955, Garland had been cast in the episode "Man Down, Woman Screaming" of Rod Cameron's first syndicated series, ''[[City Detective (TV series)|City Detective]]'', the story of a tough [[New York City]] police lieutenant. She appeared that same year as Sarah Garvey in the episode "Cattle Drive to Casper" of the [[NBC]] [[anthology series]], ''[[Frontier (1955 TV series)|Frontier]]''.  On September 5, 1955, she co-starred in an episode of ''Science Fiction Theatre'' called "The Negative Man.  About this time, she also appeared in the first [[Brian Keith]] series ''[[Crusader (TV series)|Crusader]]'', a [[Cold War]] drama which aired on CBS.

Garland appeared twice as Doris Denny Bona in the episodes "Remember the [[Alamo]]" and "The Widow of Kill Cove" in 1960 in Cameron's third syndicated series, ''[[COronado 9]]''.

In 1960, Garland was cast as Dr. Nora James, with [[Robert Bray]] as Tom Byson, in the episode "Three Graves" of the NBC western series, ''[[Riverboat (TV series)|Riverboat]]'', starring [[Darren McGavin]]. In the story line, mystery shrouds three mysterious recent graves in a town along the [[Mississippi River]]. Townspeople refuse to discuss what happened.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0687120/|title="Three Graves", March 14, 1960|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 20, 2013}}</ref>

Garland guest starred in 1963 as Marya Stone in the episode "What Did She Mean By Good Luck?" in NBC's [[medical drama]] about [[psychiatry]], ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]''.  She also appeared in a season one episode, "Smoke Screen", of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]'', starring [[David Janssen]].

In the 1964-1965 television season, Garland co-starred in the role of Ellie Collins with [[Bing Crosby]] as husband Bing Collins in the ABC sitcom, ''[[The Bing Crosby Show]]''. [[Carol Faylen]] and Diane Sherry played her teenaged daughters.

Although Garland co-starred with [[Anthony Perkins]] and [[Tuesday Weld]] in the 1968 feature film ''[[Pretty Poison]]'', she is best known for playing suburban mothers on ''My Three Sons'' and ''The Scarecrow and Mrs. King.'' Garland was featured in the NBC series ''[[Remington Steele]]'' as the mother of [[Stephanie Zimbalist]]'s character, detective Laura Holt.

Her decades of television guest appearances range from the first-season ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|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 the martial arts western series, ''[[Kung Fu (TV series)|Kung Fu]]''. She reprised her earlier western personae as a tough gun-slinging widow. She appeared on the ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' as a long-ago girlfriend of [[Lou Grant (fictional character)|Lou Grant]]. Garland also had a recurring role as "Lois Lane's" mother on the 1990s TV series ''[[Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'', starring [[Teri Hatcher]].

On ''7th Heaven'', she appeared in nine episodes as Ginger Jackson, the stepmother of Annie Camden, opposite [[Graham Jarvis]] as Charles Jackson, Annie's father. [[Peter Graves (actor)|Peter Graves]], the brother of [[James Arness]], appeared in ''7th Heaven'' as Eric Camden's father, John "The Colonel" Camden, with [[Barbara Rush]] in the role of Eric's mother, Ruth Camden. In addition to working with Graves on ''7th Heaven'', Garland also starred opposite James Arness in four ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' episodes until the long-running western ended in 1975.

On radio, Garland was an original player of the '''C'''alifornia '''A'''ctors '''R'''adio '''T'''heatre. C.A.R.T. often recorded its programs on the grounds of Garland's hotel in The Beverly Garland Little Theater, which was decorated with large movie posters from many of her feature films.

For her contribution to the television industry, Garland has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6801 [[Hollywood Boulevard]].

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===Business career===
Garland owned and operated the Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn (4222 Vineland Avenue)<ref>http://www.beverlygarland.com</ref> in North Hollywood at the time of her death.<ref name="tv.msn.com">http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=342852&GT1=28103</ref>

===Personal life===
In 1999, her husband of thirty-nine years, businessman Filmore Crank, died.<ref name="tv.msn.com" /> Subsequently, Garland combined her acting career with an increased devotion to the hotel that Crank built and named for her. Situated on the former [[Gene Autry]] property and originally built as a [[Howard Johnson's]] Motor Lodge in the 1970s,<ref>http://www.highwayhost.org/California/LosAngeles/NorthHollywood/northhollywood1.html</ref> the sprawling 255-room [[Spanish Mission Style|Spanish-Mission style]] resort [http://www.beverlygarland.com/ Beverly Garland Holiday Inn and Conference Center] is located in [[North Hollywood, California|North Hollywood]]. The hotel continues to be owned by her family and managed by her  son, James Fessenden Crank.

Garland's daughter, actress [[Carrington Garland]], is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the third Kelly Capwell on the [[soap opera]] ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]''.

===Death===
On December 5, 2008, Garland died in the mid-century contemporary house in the [[Hollywood Hills]] that was her home of over 40 years.<ref>McLellan, Dennis. [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-garland7-2008dec07,0,3405510.story "Beverly Garland, versatile actress in film and TV, dies at 82."] ''Los Angeles Times''. December 7, 2008.</ref> A memorial service and reception was attended by several hundred people on December 13 at her namesake hotel property, Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn. Her body was cremated.

==Filmography==
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|- bgcolor="#B0C4DE" align="center"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Other notes
|-
|rowspan=2|1950
|''[[D.O.A. (1950 film)|D.O.A.]]''
|Miss Foster
|Credited as Beverly Campbell
|-
|''[[The Lone Ranger#Television series|The Lone Ranger]]''
|Laura Lawson
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1951
|''[[Strictly Dishonorable (1951 film)|Strictly Dishonorable]]''
|Armorclad Mentoring Isabelle in opera ''Caesar''
|Uncredited
|-
|1953
|''[[The Neanderthal Man]]''
|Nola Mason, waitress
|
|-
|1954
|''[[Medic (TV series)|Medic]]''
|Estelle Collins
|TV, 1 episode, nominated for Best Actress in a Single Performance [[Emmy Award]]
|-
|1954–1956
|''[[Four Star Playhouse]]''
|Various roles
|TV, 4 episodes
|-
|rowspan=4|1955
|''[[Swamp Women]]''
|Vera
|
|-
|''[[Navy Log]]''
|Sally
|TV, 1 episode
|
|-
|''[[Science Fiction Theater]]''
|Sally
|TV, 1 episode, "Negative Man"
|
|-
|''[[Sudden Danger]]''
|Phyllis Baxter
|
|-
|1955–1959
|''[[The Millionaire (TV series)|The Millionaire]]''
|Louise Benson/Clara
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|1956
|''[[Ford Theatre#Television|The Ford Television Theatre]]''
|Maria Perrin
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[It Conquered the World]]''
|Claire Anderson
|
|-
|1956–1957
|''[[Wire Service]]''
|Ellen Gale
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|1956–1959
|''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater]]''
|Various roles
|TV, 4 episodes
|-
|rowspan=4|1957
|''[[Not of This Earth (1957 film)|Not of This Earth]]''
|Nurse Nadine Storey
|
|-
|''[[Playhouse 90]]''
|Gay Sherman
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Joker Is Wild]]''
|Cassie Mack
|-
|''[[Naked Paradise]]''
|Max MacKenzie
|-
|1957–1959
|''[[Decoy (TV series)|Decoy]]''
|Casey Jones
|TV, 37 episodes
|-
|rowspan=4|1959
|''[[Yancy Derringer]]''
|Coco LaSalle
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|''[[The Alligator People]]''
|Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
|
|-
|''[[Hawaiian Eye]]''
|Rena Harrison
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Man from Blackhawk]]''
|Sarah Marshall
|1 episode, "Logan's Policy", series premiere
|-
|1959–1963
|''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''
|Jennie Colby
|TV, 3 episodes
|-
|1960
|''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
|Lounge Singer
|TV, 1 episode "The Four Of Us Are Dying"
|-
|1959–1967
|''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|The Wonderful World of Disney]]''
|Mrs. Barko
|TV, 6 episodes
|-
|rowspan=5|1960
|''[[Tales of Wells Fargo]]
|Pearl Hart
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)|Wanted: Dead or Alive]]''
|Sally Lind
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Hong Kong (TV series)|Hong Kong]]''
|Irene Vance
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]''
|Ruth Kenton
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Perry Mason (TV series)|Perry Mason]]''
|Mauvis Meade
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=2|1961
|''[[Checkmate (TV series)|Checkmate]]''
|Jean
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Asphalt Jungle#Adaptations|The Asphalt Jungle]]''
|Caroline
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1961
|''[[Danger Man]]''
|Ann/Cynthia
|TV
|-
|1961–1962
|''[[Dr. Kildare#Television|Dr. Kildare]]''
|Ann/Cynthia
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=4|1962
|''[[Bus Stop (TV series)|Bus Stop]]''
|Janie
|"Summer Lightning"
|-
|''[[Cain's Hundred]]''
|Jeanette
|"The Left Side of Canada"
|-
|''[[Going My Way (TV series)|Going My Way]]''
|Marsha 
|"A Saint for Momma"
|-
|''[[The Nurses (CBS TV series)|The Nurses]]''
|Ginny Nemets
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=5|1963
|''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]''
|Katherine Channing
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Sam Benedict]]''
|Jan Fielding 
|"Image of a Toad"
|-
|''[[Twice-Told Tales]]''
|Alice Pyncheon
|
|-
|''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]''
|Nurse Doris Stillwell
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)|The Farmer's Daughter]]''
|
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1963–1970
|''[[Gunsmoke]]''
|Various roles
|TV, 4 episodes
|-
|1964
|''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]''
|JoAnne Kling
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=2|1965
|''[[A Man Called Shenandoah]]''
|Kate
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Laredo (TV series)|Laredo]]''
|Aggie
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1966
|''[[Pistols 'n' Petticoats]]''
|Ross Guttley
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1967
|''[[Judd, for the Defense]]''
|Dorothy Shaw
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1967–1969
|''[[The Wild Wild West]]''
|Celia Rydell/Sally Yarnell
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|1968
|''[[The Mothers-in-Law]]''
|Audrey Fleming
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Pretty Poison (film)|Pretty Poison]]''
|Mrs. Stepanek
|
|-
|1968–1973
|''[[Mannix]]''
|Edna Restin
|TV, 3 episodes
|-
|1969
|''[[Here's Lucy]]''
|Secretary
|TV, 1 episode (uncredited)
|-
|1969–1972
|''[[My Three Sons]]''
|Barbara Harper Douglas
|TV, 74 episodes
|-
|1970
|''[[Then Came Bronson]]''
|Beth Morse
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=2|1972
|''[[The Mod Squad]]''
|
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Temperatures Rising]]''
|Claudia
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1972–1975
|''[[Marcus Welby, M.D.]]''
|Nancy Zimmer
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=5|1973
|''[[Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law]]''
|Mrs. Varni
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Rookies]]''
|Pat Whitfield
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]''
|Cecilia Thatcher
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The New Adventures of Perry Mason]]''
|Laura Lee
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Love, American Style]]''
|Maria Lombardi
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=3|1974
|''[[Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film)|Where the Red Fern Grows]]''
|Mother
|
|-
|''[[Airport 1975]]''
|Mrs. Scott Freeman
|
|-
|''[[Ironside (TV series)|Ironside]]''
|Andrea Reynolds
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1974–1975
|''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]''
|Kay/Madeline Stockwood
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|1975
|''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''
|Veronica Ludlow
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1976–1977
|''[[Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman]]''
|Cookie LaRue
|TV, 16 episodes
|-
|rowspan=3|1977
|''[[The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries]]''
|Thelma
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Lanigan's Rabbi]]''
|
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[The Tony Randall Show]]''
|Sylvia Needleman
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=3|1979
|''[[How the West Was Won (TV series)|How the West Was Won]]''
|Hanna
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Charlie's Angels]]''
|Pat Justice
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Roller Boogie]]''
|Lillian Barkley
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1980
|''[[Trapper John, M.D.]]''
|Mrs. Kaufman
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|''[[It's My Turn (film)|It's My Turn]]''
|Emma
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1981
|''[[Hart to Hart]]''
|Real Grandma
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Flamingo Road (TV series)|Flamingo Road]]''
|
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''
|Florence Russell
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Matt Houston]]''
|Mrs. Chapman
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1982–1983
|''[[Remington Steele]]''
|Abigail Holt
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|1983–1987
|''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]''
|Dorothea "Dotty" West
|TV, 88 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|1985
|''[[Hotel (TV series)|Hotel]]''
|Alice Korman
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|''[[Finder of Lost Loves]]''
|Lucy Rowens
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1991
|''[[P.S. I Luv U]]''
|Emma
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|rowspan=2|1995
|''[[Friends]]''
|Aunt Iris
|TV, 1 episodes
|-
|''[[Ellen (TV series)|Ellen]]''
|Eva
|TV, 1 episodes
|-
|1995–1997
|''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]''
|Ellen Lane
|TV, 6 episodes
|-
|1997
|''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]''
|Stella
|TV, 1 episode
|-
|1997–2004
|''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''
|Ginger
|TV, 9 episodes
|-
|1998
|''[[Teen Angel (1997 TV series)|Teen Angel]]''
|Grandma
|TV, 2 episodes
|-
|1998-1999
|''[[The Angry Beavers]]''
|High Priestess
|The Mighty Knot Head/Practical jerks
|-
|2002
|''[[Weakest Link (US game show)|The Weakest Link]]''
|Herself (contestant)
|TV Moms Edition (1st one voted off)
|-
|}

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Biography|California|Los Angeles|Film|Television}}

*{{Find a Grave|32017985}}
*{{IMDb name|id=0307500|name=Beverly Garland}}
*{{Amg name|25958}}
*[http://www.beverlygarland.com/ Beverly Garland's Universal Studios Hollywood Hotel]
*[http://www.legacy.com/LADailyNews/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=121104844 Obituary] in the [[Los Angeles Daily News]]

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|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= December 5, 2008
|PLACE OF DEATH= [[Hollywood Hills, California]]
}}
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