Beverly Garland 1926-2008

December 7, 2008

Sadly, Beverly Garland has died.

As a kid I had hoped thought she was a long-lost sister of Judy Garland. But, I learned later, she was not.

She was a B-Horror Movie Queen, a prolific television actress –the first policewoman on television (some of you younger kids might remember her from Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Lois and Clark, and 7th Heaven), and a hotel owner.

Ted and I stayed at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn last January in a star-studded weekend (star-studded because we saw Tony Plana–Ugly Betty’s dad– and Ben McKenzie–formerly of the OC– at a play in Los Angeles).

On the television in our hotel room they showed a video loop of her film and tv appearances; she really had worked A LOT. She seemed like a pretty nice person, too.