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Garland's 1950s roles tended to be tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. In 1956 alone, she played a female sheriff in the Western '' Gunslinger '', a prison escapee in '' Swamp Women '' and a scientist's wife who battles an alien in '' It Conquered The World ''. (All three movies were spoofed in the 1990s by '' Mystery Science Theater 3000 ''.) Garland then starred as undercover police officer Casey Jones in the syndicated TV series '' Decoy '' (1957), the first police series on American television built around a female protagonist. Garland is best known, however, for playing suburban moms on two later TV series. She played Barbara Harper Douglas, second wife of Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray), on the final three seasons of the sitcom '' My Three Sons '' (1969-72); and she played Dotty West, mother to Mrs. King (Kate Jackson), on all four seasons of the lighthearted espionage drama '' Scarecrow And Mrs. King '' (1983-87). She also had a recurring role as Laura Holt's mother duriong the first season of '' Remington Steele '' in 1982-83. Her many TV guest appearances include the first-season '' Twilight Zone '' episode "The Four of Us Are Dying," about a con artist with a thousand faces (1960), and the long-running family drama ''7th Heaven'', in which she has a recurring role as Ginger Jackson. Garland has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame . |
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