Biografie

In the early 1970s, with husband Fillmore Crank, she opened the Beverly Garland's Howard Johnson's Resort Lodge, a 154-room hotel near Universal Studios.

Was best friends with Julie London, who was a month older than Beverly. London's stepdaughter Ronne Troup co-starred with Garland on Meine drei Söhne (1960), in the early 1970s.

Tina Cole was married to her stepson, Fillmore Crank Jr.

Married her first husband, a 20-year-old fisherman named Robert Campbell, on an impulse when she was 18. They eloped to Las Vegas, NV, but divorced about four months later.

After her last guest-starring role on Eine himmlische Familie (1996), she retired from acting at age 77.

[referring to her 1950s Roger Corman cult films] It's funny today because it's so ridiculous. But at the time, it was very serious! We were just actors doing our best, I think. None of us overacted. I'm not saying we weren't good. We didn't do it tongue-in-cheek. We really meant it. We gave our all. We were serious, good actors and we played it seriously.

[on acting in "B" movies] You don't have to act in these pictures. All you have to do is possess a good pair of lungs. I can scream with more variations from shrill to vibrato than any other girl in pictures.

Maybe I do come on strong, and people sense in me a strength and a positiveness . . . It's really the way I look and act, not the way I am . . . Once you cut through the protective coating, I'm strictly molasses.

[on Robert Culp, with whom she worked in Trackdown (1957)] I am not mad for him! It was awful for me to work with him. He didn't give me anything. Very selfish. I can't work with someone who doesn't give something back. I need feedback for me to do my work. I was out on a limb. If you don't get something, you can't give something back. I don't know about others, but Robert Culp just didn't give me anything!

[on Neville Brand] We did a lot of stuff together, including a picture in Japan. I stayed home and he went out with the girls; then at three or four in the morning, he would tell me all about them. What a drinker!