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Beverly Garland
Birthday:
17 October 1926
Birth Name:
Beverly Lucy Fessenden
Biography
[on Robert Loggia] . . . he was wonderful. Quiet; very intelligent. He had a lot of pizzazz.
[on Robert Loggia] . . . he was wonderful. Quiet; very intelligent. He had a lot of pizzazz.
[on John Bromfield, with whom she worked on Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)] He's a terribly handsome man. He didn't care if he acted or not--he wanted to go fishing! Which is probably what he's doing these days. John was just a love; a very handsome, good looking guy.
[on John Bromfield, with whom she worked on Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)] He's a terribly handsome man. He didn't care if he acted or not--he wanted to go fishing! Which is probably what he's doing these days. John was just a love; a very handsome, good looking guy.
[on Jock Mahoney] Jocko was a close friend; I knew him when he was still a stuntman. We did Yancy Derringer (1958) together. He was one of my favorite people.
[on Jock Mahoney] Jocko was a close friend; I knew him when he was still a stuntman. We did Yancy Derringer (1958) together. He was one of my favorite people.
[on Robert Conrad] Thank goodness we didn't have any love scenes together. I am taller than Robert Conrad, but then, who isn't? He's a tiny man.
[on Robert Conrad] Thank goodness we didn't have any love scenes together. I am taller than Robert Conrad, but then, who isn't? He's a tiny man.
[on Richard Boone, with whom she worked on Medic (1954)] . . . such a good actor--a special man. Just wonderful. He was not good looking, he had bad skin and was very homely--but a brilliant actor.
[on Richard Boone, with whom she worked on Medic (1954)] . . . such a good actor--a special man. Just wonderful. He was not good looking, he had bad skin and was very homely--but a brilliant actor.
[on Wayne Morris, with whom she worked on The Desperado (1954) and Two Guns and a Badge (1954)] He was no longer a star. This was not Warner Bros.! He was nice, but heavy. He had to have a box to get on his horse! I didn't hang around with him so I didn't know about his drinking--but from his being puffy, I certainly suspected it.
[on Wayne Morris, with whom she worked on The Desperado (1954) and Two Guns and a Badge (1954)] He was no longer a star. This was not Warner Bros.! He was nice, but heavy. He had to have a box to get on his horse! I didn't hang around with him so I didn't know about his drinking--but from his being puffy, I certainly suspected it.
[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!
[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!
[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 oth...
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[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!
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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.
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 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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
Beverly Garland
Born in Santa Cruz, California, Beverly Garland studied dramatics under Anita Arliss, the sister of renowned stage and screen star George Arliss. She acted in little theater in Glendale then in Phoenix after her family relocated to Arizona. Garland also worked in radio and appeared scantily clad in a few risqué shorts before making her feature film debut in a supporting part in D.O.A. (1950). Her husbands include actor Richard Garland and land developer Fillmore Crank, who built the two hotels which bear her name. In 2001, Garland began her "second 50 years in show business" and has guest-starred on a number of television programs including The Guardian (2001) on CBS and Weakest Link (2001) on NBC, as well as maintaining her continuing roles on 7th Heaven (1996) on the WB and Port Charles (1997) on ABC, which began in the 1990s.In addition, she is the recipient of one of the entertainment industry's highest honors, receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1983. In 2001, in recognition of her 50 years in show business, the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters inducted her into its Hall of Fame. Garland has two very significant historical television "firsts": she was television's first policewoman as the star of Decoy (1957) and, more importantly, the series gave her the honor of becoming the first actress to star in a television dramatic series. Now widowed (her husband of 39 years died in 1999), she continued to operate, with the assistance of three of her four children, the 255-room Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in North Hollywood. Beverly Garland died at age 82 in her home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California in December 5, 2008.
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