Working as a migrant farmworker, Kimble gets drawn into helping fight a forest fire. The situation prevents access to a hospital, yet the doctor recognizes a fellow worker's wife must give birth by cesarean. Worksite nurse, guest star Beverly Garland, castigates Kimble's supposed lack of urgency. Only as a last resort, he provides her his medical credentials. Credentials Gerard can spot from miles away in spite of the smoke.
Smoke Screen, 1963
Nora Marlowe was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1915. The hefty American character actress would often be cast as a maid, a nurse, or in a 19th-century setting. She appeared uncredited in a few notable films such as the gun-toting housekeeper in North by Northwest, I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Thomas Crown Affair. But it is her numerous television credits that are unfathomable, whether in a short scene or recurring roles like Law of the Plainsman, The Governor & J.J. and perhaps most famously as Flossie Brimmer, the boarding house owner on The Waltons from 1973 until her death in 1977. That same year, she played an uncompromising maid, Viola, on The Rockford Files (above). She would rearrange items in his trailer [logically] which he could never find. She became fed up with Rockford's messes after thugs repeatedly "rearranged" the trailer's interior. Jim was not all that disappointed when she gave him notice.
