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(Beverly Lucy Fessenden)
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| 17 October 26 |
is born in Santa Cruz, California, to James A. Fessenden and Amelia Rose Fessenden, nee Scherer
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grows up in Glendale
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moves to Arizona during her high school years
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moves back to California with her family and attends Glendale City College
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attends UCLA
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| c. 49 |
does summer stock in Laguna, where agent Ray Cooper spots her and arranges an interview for her with director Rudolph Maté for his upcoming D.O.A.
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is officially blacklisted for a few years after a disloyal but honest remark about D.O.A.
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meets her future husband, actor Richard Garland, while doing the play Dark of the Moon at the Hollywood Players Ring Theater
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| 49 |
marries Garland
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| 53 |
divorces Garland when she finds out that he had an affair with her best friend. In addition, he drank more and more. Garland will die at age 41 in 1969.
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| 55 |
on location for Swamp Women in Louisiana, she has to stay at an abandoned hotel that is infected with bedbugs
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| c. 56 |
keeps company with Bill Hays, who is handling her money, but also dates director Roger Corman a little. She will later deny any affair with Corman.
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| 56 |
is off to Brazil for three months for the filming of Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
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| 57 |
stays at the Cocoa Palms Hotel on Kauai, Hawaii, while filming Naked Paradise
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| 59 |
is a much-sought-after bachelor girl
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| 59 / 60 |
meets and marries builder-developer Fillmore Pajeau Crank. His wife, Barbara Helen Logan, was killed in a car crash in August 1957; he has two children, Fillmore, Jr., and Cathleen.
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| 27 January 64 |
her daughter, Carrington Kendall, is born in Los Angeles
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her husband builds the 225-room Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn on Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood
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| 10 March 99 |
becomes the widow of Crank, who dies at age 77 in Los Angeles from cancer after a two-week illness
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| 99 |
attends the Memphis Film Festival and again visits with actor Rex Reason
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| 5 December 08 |
dies at age 82 at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy illness
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Sources:
Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers by Tom Weaver, Ladies of the Western by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers |
Recommended Books:
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Links:
Filmography
JSR Pages: Beverly Garland
Brian's Drive-In Theater: Beverly Garland |
