Beverly Garland  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 or science-fiction movies. On television, she had prominent recurring roles on several popular series. She may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas, 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". In 1957–1958, she starred in the TV crime-drama "Decoy", which ran for 39 episodes. Beverly Lucy Fessenden 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 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 the classic "film noir" "D.O.A.". (She was credited as Beverly Campbell.) 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 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 syndicated television series "Decoy", the first American television police series with a woman in the starring role. It lasted a single season of 39 episodes. Garland guest-starred in 1956 as Nelli Austin, a rodeo sharpshooter, in the episode "Rodeo Rough House" of Rod Cameron's syndicated drama series "State Trooper".