Anecdotes

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 My Three Sons (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 7 à la maison (1996), she retired from acting at age 77.

She was best friends with her Les deux font la paire (1983) co-star, Bruce Boxleitner for nearly 30 years. They worked together beginning on an episode of La conquête de l'Ouest (1976).

Starting with Les enquêtes de Remington Steele (1982), she played mothers of three television women with hazardous lives; from the aforementioned series, Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), Amanda King (Kate Jackson) of Les deux font la paire (1983) and Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher) of Lois & Clark : Les nouvelles aventures de Superman (1993).

Born in Santa Cruz, California, but moved with her family to Glendale (near Los Angeles) when she was four. She was an only child.

Her father, James Fessenden, a native of New Orleans, was a member of a prestigious family line that included great-grandfather William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln. James became a salesman.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA on January 26, 1983.

Mother Amelia "Milly" Scherer was of German ancestry and was a cosmetician; her father James was a crooner who thrived on one-night stands until the demands of marriage and family moved him into sales work. He died in an auto accident in 1961 in Riverside, CA.

In the horror film La Fille aux mains sanglantes (1969), her character was pregnant--so was she at the time, with her son James Crank.

Had two children with Filmore Crank: James Crank and Carrington Garland. Had two stepchildren: Cathleen Crank and Fillmore Crank Jr.

As of November 2006, she was still residing in the dramatic California contemporary she and her husband purchased in the early 1960s. Recently redesigned by her decorator-daughter Carrington Garland, the Hollywood Hills mid-century house boasts spectacular city and canyon views that can be seen through the house from the street.

Performed in little theatre productions in Glendale, California as a teen and for a time studied voice with Anita Arliss, sister of Oscar-winning actor George Arliss.

Mother-in-law of Carlos K. Goodman.

When she was four, the family moved south to Glendale, California, USA, and in 1931 she made her acting debut, playing Cupid in a kindergarten play.

According to Garland, she and John Crawford were acting together in a play, "Dark of the Moon" (1953), at the Hollywood Players Ring Theater, the place where she had met her then-husband, Richard Garland a few years earlier. Her best friend, Lorraine Crawford, was married to Crawford at the time. The Garlands would go to the Crawford's house, and Beverly and John Crawford would then go together to the theater and return after to rejoin their spouses at the Crawford home. One night they came home from the play and Beverly caught her husband in a near embrace with her best friend in the Crawford kitchen. He denied but shortly afterwards admitted to an affair. Both John Crawford and Beverly divorced their spouses immediately, with Beverly retaining her ex-husband's name because her career was rising at the time and she did not wish to endanger it with a name change.

In 1986, her Les deux font la paire (1983) co-star, Bruce Boxleitner, presented her with the Golden Boot Award.

Attended high school in Phoenix, AZ, and appeared in plays at the Phoenix Little Theatre. She also appeared on local radio.

Best remembered by the public for her starring roles as Barbara Harper Douglas on My Three Sons (1960) and as Dorothy 'Dotty' West on Les deux font la paire (1983).

Shared the same birthday with Julie Adams. Garland and Adams guest-starred on the same episode of Mannix (1967).

Interviewed in "Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup" by Tom Weaver (McFarland 1988).

Body Cremated and Ashes given to family or friend.