Beverly Garland

 Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008)

Garland was a film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action or science fiction movies. She may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas, the woman who married widower Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) in the latter years of the sitcom My Three Sons. She played that role from 1969 until the series ended in 1972. 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 7th Heaven. Garland married actor Richard Garland in 1951. Although they divorced two years later, she continued to use his last name professionally. In 1999, her husband of 39 years, businessman Filmore Crank, died. On December 5, 2008, Garland died from undisclosed causes in the Hollywood Hills after a lengthy illness at her home for over 40 years.