32-522: Beverly Lucy Garland (née Fessenden ; October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress. Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action and science-fiction movies; however, she had prominent recurring roles on several popular television series. In 1957–1958, she starred in the TV crime-drama Decoy , which ran for 39 episodes, but she may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas,
64-499: A DVD set containing all 39 episodes. Laramie (TV series) Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, owner of the Sherman Ranch, along with his younger brother Andy, played by Robert L. Crawford Jr. ; Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, an immature, hot-headed drifter who shows up at
96-590: A rodeo sharpshooter, in the episode "Rodeo Rough House" of Rod Cameron 's syndicated drama series State Trooper . Claude Akins appeared in this episode as the murderous rodeo clown. Garland and Akins appeared together again in the 1960 episode "Prison Trail" of the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive and again in the 1963 episode "The Chooser of the Slain" of The Dakotas . Garland and Akins also appeared in The Zane Grey Theatre episodes "Courage
128-536: A season-one episode, "Smoke Screen", of The Fugitive . In the 1964–1965 television season, she co-starred as Ellie Collins on The Bing Crosby Show . She appeared in the 1968 feature film Pretty Poison , but is best known for playing suburban mothers on My Three Sons and Scarecrow and Mrs. King . In 1974, Garland went under the ape makeup for an episode of the Planet of the Apes television series. The episode
160-534: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard . It was dedicated on January 26, 1983. 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. They had two children together, and two from Crank's previous marriage. Subsequently, Garland combined her acting career with an increased devotion to
192-516: A variety of roles, including gangster's molls , prostitutes, nurses, and singers. Jones did not have a partner for her police work, and episodes revealed little about her personal life, with occasional exceptions of references to a love affair with a police officer who died on duty. Decoy was ranked among the top-10 syndicated programs, not only during its initial release, but also "long after production closed down". Stuart Rosenberg and Don Medford were directors of Decoy , and Steve Gardner
224-491: Is Jonesy, the role filled by Carmichael. Slim and Jess must fight together when Carlin shows up at the relay station (Carlin says he likes to watch men fight), and proceeds to humiliate the judge. In "The General Must Die" (November 17, 1959), Brian Keith appears as Whit Malone, an old friend of Slim Sherman's from the Union Army. Malone and a mentally troubled Colonel Brandon, played by John Hoyt in another appearance on
256-507: Is a Gun" and "Jericho". In 1955, Garland was cast in the episode "Man Down, Woman Screaming" of Rod Cameron's first syndicated series, City Detective . On September 5, 1955, she co-starred in an episode of Science Fiction Theatre called "The Negative Man". Around the same time, she appeared in the first Brian Keith series, Crusader . In 1959, Garland was cast as the wife of a bounty hunter in Season 2, Episode 2 of Rawhide "Incident of
288-564: Is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The series was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain . The series featured Beverly Garland as Patricia "Casey" Jones, a female undercover police officer in New York City. The undercover nature of Jones's work had her impersonating women in
320-437: Is off to one of the fastest sales starts in years, particularly with major station purchases." That sales success included a $ 600,000 prerelease order from five Westinghouse-owned TV stations and four independent stations. Production of the series ended on May 29, 1958, because producers lacked the funds to continue. Reruns were broadcast for seven years using the title Police Woman . In 2017, Film Chest Media Group released
352-428: Is part of the gang of Bud Carlin ( Dan Duryea ). The gang captures Judge Thomas J. Wilkens ( Everett Sloane ), to keep him from trying Morgan. Though Jess and Slim are at odds with each other in their first encounters, and friendship seems out of the question, Andy Sherman takes an instant liking to Jess. Andy even asks Jess to take him away from the ranch, where he lives with his older brother Slim. Their first housekeeper
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#1732790230901384-641: The Confederates, portrayed by Frank Overton , and an Army major, the real culprit played by John Hoyt , to clear Matt Sherman's name. The gold dust in question had long ago been scattered by the wind. The series premiere "Stage Stop" (September 15, 1959), which was filmed in color, explains how Slim Sherman and Jess Harper become partners in the Sherman Ranch and Relay Station. Jess arrives in Wyoming from Texas in search of an erstwhile "friend", Pete Morgan, played by John Mitchum , who had robbed Jess. Morgan
416-550: The Greater Los Angeles Visitors' and Convention Bureau. On December 5, 2008, Garland died from natural causes at her home of over 40 years in the Hollywood Hills after a lengthy illness. Several hundred people attended a memorial service and reception on December 13 at her namesake hotel property. Her body was cremated. Decoy (TV series) Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy )
448-588: The Roman Candles". The same year, she had a two guest appearances in the CBS post-Civil War adventure series Yancy Derringer , appearing as the character Coco the pirate, one of Yancy's many female friends. She appeared twice in 1960 as Doris Denny Bona in the episodes "Remember the Alamo" and "The Widow of Kill Cove" of Cameron's third syndicated series, Coronado 9 . In 1960, Garland was cast as Dr. Nora James in
480-560: The Sea in Georgia . Subsequent episodes focus on the close friendship that develops between Slim and Jess, as they become like brothers with occasionally strong differences of opinion, but always finding reconciliation and common ground. Generally, Slim, who is taller than Jess and two years older, is depicted as the more level-headed and thoughtful, with Jess as more emotional, with righteous indignation and difficulty controlling his temper. In
512-567: The Sherman Ranch in the premiere episode; and Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy, who keeps the homestead/stage stop running while Slim and Jess usually alternate starring roles during the show. Actress Spring Byington was later added to the cast. The two Sherman brothers and a drifter, Jess Harper, come together to run a stagecoach stop for the Great Central Overland Mail Company after the Shermans' father, Matt,
544-471: The World . All three films were directed by Roger Corman , and all were parodied in the 1990s by Mystery Science Theater 3000 . From 1957 to 1958, Garland starred as undercover police officer Casey Jones in the television series Decoy , the first American television police series with a woman in the starring role. It lasted for a single season of 39 episodes. Garland guest-starred in 1956 as Nelli Austin,
576-602: The drama Mama Rosa in 1950. In the 1950s, many of her roles were of secure, tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. One such role was as a secrets-keeping secretary in D.O.A. . In 1956, she played a female marshal in the Western Gunslinger with Chris Alcaide as her deputy; a prison escapee in Swamp Diamonds ; and a scientist's wife who battles an alien in It Conquered
608-565: The early 1980s and in six episodes of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as the mother of Lois Lane in the mid-1990s. Her decades of television guest appearances included episodes of Twilight Zone , Kung Fu , and The Mary Tyler Moore Show . On 7th Heaven , she appeared in nine episodes as Ginger Jackson, the stepmother of Annie Camden, opposite Graham Jarvis . In addition to working with Peter Graves on 7th Heaven , Garland also starred opposite Graves's brother, James Arness , in four episodes of Gunsmoke . On radio, she
640-737: The episode "Cactus Lady" (February 21, 1961), it is revealed that Jess Harper had been nearly hanged by mistake in the border city of Laredo, Texas , because of the McCanles gang, played by Arthur Hunnicutt , L. Q. Jones , Harry Dean Stanton , and Anita Sands. The gang arrives suddenly in Laramie. The German title of Laramie is Am Fuß der blauen Berge ( At the Foot of the Blue Mountains ), despite them being located some 600 miles north-west from Laramie, Wyoming. Hoagy Carmichael's contract
672-662: The episode "Three Graves" of Riverboat . Garland also appeared in 1960 in episode 28, "Saddles and Spurs", of the first season of the Western show Laramie . In 1962–1963, Garland was a regular on the CBS version of Stump the Stars . In 1963, she starred as “Leah”, a bar girl in the Long Branch who loses her fiancée then is revived in life in the Gunsmoke episode “The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner” (S8E36). She appeared in
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#1732790230901704-502: The hotel that Crank built and named for her. Originally built as a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in the 1970s, it became a 255-room Spanish Mission-style resort called Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn , and was renamed The Garland in 2014. Variety , on December 7, 2008, wrote that she was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood and that she served on the boards of the California Tourism Corporation as well as
736-399: The series in the roles of Daisy Cooper, a matronly widow, and Mike Williams, a young orphan permitted to live at the Sherman Ranch pending location of any next of kin, which never happened. At the beginning of its third season, Laramie was one of the first television programs that made the transition from black-and-white to color . Because of declining ratings in its last season, Laramie
768-514: The series, arrive at the relay station with a daring but foiled plan to assassinate General William Tecumseh Sherman , who is scheduled to pass through the station on a stagecoach. Gilman Rankin makes a cameo appearance as General Sherman. This episode reveals that Slim Sherman entered the Army as a private and advanced to second lieutenant and fought under General Sherman (no relation) in the March to
800-467: The woman who married widower Steve Douglas ( Fred MacMurray ) in the latter years of the sitcom My Three Sons . She played in that role from 1969 until the series concluded in 1972. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Dotty West, the mother of Kate Jackson 's character, in the CBS television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King . She had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on 7th Heaven .. Beverly Lucy Fessenden
832-622: Was a writer. The show was filmed by Pyramid Productions, partially on location in New York City. Locations included Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Randalls Island, and the South Bronx. Studio scenes were filmed in the former Biograph Studios in the Bronx. Production of the show's pilot began on March 28, 1957, taking seven days for completion. In August 1957, trade publication Billboard reported, "the first-run series
864-593: Was an original player of the California Actors Radio Theatre, which often recorded its programs on the grounds of Garland's hotel in the Beverly Garland Little Theater, which was decorated with large movie posters from many of her feature films. Garland was nominated for a Best Actress in a Single Performance Emmy Award for her work on Medic (1955). For her contribution to the television industry, Garland has
896-589: Was born on October 17, 1926, in Santa Cruz, California, the daughter of Amelia Rose (née Scherer), a businesswoman, and James Atkins Fessenden, a singer and salesman. Garland grew up in Glendale, California. She was a drama student of Anita Arliss. The family subsequently moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where she graduated from North High School . She was a student at Glendale City College, and she honed her acting skills in summer stock theatre . Garland played Nina in
928-461: Was called "The Interrogation" and she played a rather cunning chimpanzee who tries, through brainwashing, to get answers from the captured Pete Burke. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Dotty West, the mother of Kate Jackson's character for the entire four-season run of the CBS television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King . She also featured in two episodes of Remington Steele as the mother of Laura Holt (played by series star Stephanie Zimbalist ) in
960-515: Was canceled. The NBC peacock logo , in use since 1956, was given an update on January 2, 1962, when a new version of the NBC peacock "living color" logo was introduced before the Laramie broadcast that evening. The "Laramie Peacock" featured the bird fanning its plumage against a kaleidoscopic color background (with the eleven melded feathers shrinking and separating into the peacock's form); it used
992-533: Was murdered by a greedy land seeker. The Sherman parents are buried on the ranch. Near the end of the series, Matt Sherman was revealed to have been falsely accused during the American Civil War of having aided the Confederates . After Jess Harper finds on Sherman Ranch land the wreckage of a Union Army gold wagon stolen by Confederate raiders, Slim sets forth with the officer accused of helping
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1024-468: Was not renewed after the first season, and his character was eliminated with the explanation that he had accompanied Andy to boarding school in St. Louis . Andy, however, returned to appear in three episodes in the first half of the second season. To restore the chemistry of the original cast, as the third season began in 1961, Spring Byington, formerly of the sitcom December Bride , and Dennis Holmes joined
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