lilhave
12-08-2008, 08:36 AM
'My Three Sons' actress Beverly Garland dies at 82 after long illness
at 0:48 on December 7, 2008, EDT.
12/7/2008 12:00:00 AM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in
1950s' cult hits like "Swamp Women" and "Not of This Earth" and who
went on to play Fred MacMurray's TV wife on "My Three Sons," has
died. She was 82.
Garland died Friday at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy
illness, her son-in-law, Packy Smith, told the Los Angeles Times.
Garland made her film debut in the 1950 noir classic "D.O.A.,"
launching a 50-year career that included 40 movies and dozens of
television shows.
She gained cult status for playing gutsy women in low-budget
exploitation films such as "The Alligator People" and a number of
Roger Corman movies including "Gunslinger," "It Conquered the World"
and "Naked Paradise."
"I never considered myself very much of a passive kind of actress,"
she said in a 1985 interview with Fangoria magazine. "I was never
very comfortable in love scenes, never comfortable playing a sweet,
lovable lady."
Garland showed her comedic chops as Bing Crosby's wife in the short-
lived sitcom "The Bing Crosby Show" in the mid-'60s.
She went on to be cast in "My Three Sons" as the second wife of
MacMurray's widower Steve Douglas during the last three seasons of
the popular series that aired from 1960 to 1972.
Her television credits also include "Remington Steele," "Scarecrow
and Mrs. King," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "7th Heaven."
Garland was born Beverly Fessenden in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1926,
and grew up in Glendale. She became Beverly Garland when she married
actor Richard Garland.
They were divorced in 1953 after less than four years of marriage.
In 1960, she married real estate developer Fillmore Crank, and the
couple built a mission-style hotel in North Hollywood, now called
Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn.
Garland, whose husband died in 1999, remained involved in running the
North Hollywood hotel.
She was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood and served on the
boards of the California Tourism Corp. and the Greater Los Angeles
Visitors and Convention Bureau.
Harvey
at 0:48 on December 7, 2008, EDT.
12/7/2008 12:00:00 AM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in
1950s' cult hits like "Swamp Women" and "Not of This Earth" and who
went on to play Fred MacMurray's TV wife on "My Three Sons," has
died. She was 82.
Garland died Friday at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy
illness, her son-in-law, Packy Smith, told the Los Angeles Times.
Garland made her film debut in the 1950 noir classic "D.O.A.,"
launching a 50-year career that included 40 movies and dozens of
television shows.
She gained cult status for playing gutsy women in low-budget
exploitation films such as "The Alligator People" and a number of
Roger Corman movies including "Gunslinger," "It Conquered the World"
and "Naked Paradise."
"I never considered myself very much of a passive kind of actress,"
she said in a 1985 interview with Fangoria magazine. "I was never
very comfortable in love scenes, never comfortable playing a sweet,
lovable lady."
Garland showed her comedic chops as Bing Crosby's wife in the short-
lived sitcom "The Bing Crosby Show" in the mid-'60s.
She went on to be cast in "My Three Sons" as the second wife of
MacMurray's widower Steve Douglas during the last three seasons of
the popular series that aired from 1960 to 1972.
Her television credits also include "Remington Steele," "Scarecrow
and Mrs. King," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "7th Heaven."
Garland was born Beverly Fessenden in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1926,
and grew up in Glendale. She became Beverly Garland when she married
actor Richard Garland.
They were divorced in 1953 after less than four years of marriage.
In 1960, she married real estate developer Fillmore Crank, and the
couple built a mission-style hotel in North Hollywood, now called
Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn.
Garland, whose husband died in 1999, remained involved in running the
North Hollywood hotel.
She was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood and served on the
boards of the California Tourism Corp. and the Greater Los Angeles
Visitors and Convention Bureau.
Harvey