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Date of Birth

5 August 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death

24 October 1963, Palm Springs, California, USA (fire)

Birth Name

Beverly Josephine Williams

Mini Biography

Light actress.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Mini Biography

Beverly Wills was born in California on June 7, 1934. The daughter of actress Joan Davis, Beverly, too, would enter acting, but would not be as successful as her mother. She only appeared in six films, one TV series, and two guest appearances elsewhere. Her first film was in 1945, when Beverly made her debut in GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS when she was 11 years old. MICKEY followed three years later. In 1952, at the age of 18, Beverly appeared with her mother and Jim Backus in the TV comedy, "I Married Joan". In this, she played the sister to her real life mother. After the series had its run, Beverly appeared in only four more films, the last being SON OF FLUBBER (1963) in a menial role. Later that year, Beverly died in a house fire with her grandmother and two sons. She was just 29 years old. Her mother, Joan, had passed on two years before.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson

Spouse

Martin Colbert	(13 November 1960 - 24 October 1963) (her death)
Alan Grossman	(11 July 1954 - ?) 2 children

Trivia

Daughter of Joan Davis

Two children: Guy Steven Grossman, born December 17, 1955, and Laurance S. Grossman, born September 8, 1959. They both died in the fire on October 24, 1963 that killed their mother and grandmother, Nina Davis.

Was a regular companion of James Dean during summer 1951, while he was a student at UCLA.

The spirited, wisecracking comedic actress died after she apparently fell asleep while smoking in her Palm Springs bedroom. It was the same house in which her famous mother, Joan Davis, died two years earlier of a heart attack.

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