Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Her work in feature films was fairly minor, consisting of small parts in a few major productions and leads in low-budget action or science fiction movies. She may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas, the woman who married widower Steve Douglas (
Fred MacMurray) in the latter years of the beloved
sitcom My Three Sons. She played that role from 1969 until the series ended in 1972. In the 1980s, she co-starred as
Kate Jackson's widowed mother, "Dotty West", in the
CBS television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on
7th Heaven.