Beverly Garland (born Beverly Lucy Fessenden on October 17, 1926) is a veteran American film and television actress with a half-century of credits, from cult 1950s B movies to the hit WB series 7th Heaven. October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 7th Heaven is a U.S. television series about a ministers family living in the fictional town of Glenoak in California. ...

Garland's 1950s roles tended to be tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. In 1956 alone, she played a female sheriff in the Western Gunslinger, a prison escapee in Swamp Women and a scientist's wife who battles an alien in It Conquered the World. (All three movies were spoofed in the 1990s by Mystery Science Theater 3000.) Garland then starred as undercover police officer Casey Jones in the syndicated TV series Decoy (1957), the first police series on American television built around a female protagonist. Gunslinger from The Great Train Robbery Gunslinger, also gunfighter, is a name given to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun. ... Swamp Women is the first film ever directed by Roger Corman. ... American one-sheet poster for film It Conquered the World is a 1956 science fiction film about an alien from Venus trying to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist. ... Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is a cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks supposedly trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ... Decoy was a groundbreaking American police procedural television series which was created for syndication in 1957. ...

Garland is best known, however, for playing suburban moms on two later TV series. She played Barbara Harper Douglas, second wife of Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray), on the final three seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons (1969-72); and she played Dotty West, mother to Mrs. King (Kate Jackson), on all four seasons of the lighthearted espionage drama Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983-87). My Three Sons was a television series sitcom that ran from September 29, 1960 to August 24, 1972. ... Scarecrow and Mrs. ...

Her many TV guest appearances include the first-season Twilight Zone episode "The Four of Us Are Dying," about a con artist with a thousand faces (1960), and the long-running family drama 7th Heaven, in which she has a recurring role as Ginger Jackson. Note, this page is about the television series and its two revivals. ...

Garland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ...