Beverly Washburn began as a child actress who worked with Jack Benny on both radio and TV as one of the members of Jack’s Beverly Hills Beavers. Most notably when the Beavers put on a stage show and impersonated the Benny cast. In that broadcast Beverly portrayed “Mary Livingstone.”  Later she would tour with Benny as one of the Smither’s Sisters.  Her numerous movie credits include featured roles in Old Yeller, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Hans Christian Anderson. She has made over 500 TV appearances in shows including Dragnet, Adventures of Superman, Wagon Train, and 77 Sunset Strip  just to name a few.  She was cast as a young girl in the Leave It to Beaver episode entitled “Blind Date Committee” in October 1959, on NBC’s The Loretta Young Show, and as an older teenager in Loretta Young’s 1962–1963 CBS family drama, The New Loretta Young Show. In between, Washburn played Lili Kilgore in the 1956 film The Lone Ranger.  She appeared once on NBC’s Star Trek in the role of Lieutenant Arlene Galway in the 1967 episode “The Deadly Years”.

While appearing on the Loretta Young show she released two singles for Smash Records – Ev’rybody Loves Saturday Night and The Heart You Break May Be Your Own.

Spider Baby is a 1968 black comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as Bruno, the chauffeur and caretaker of three orphaned siblings who suffer from “Merrye Syndrome”, a genetic condition starting in early puberty that causes them to regress mentally, socially and physically. Jill Banner, Beverly Washburn and Sid Haig portray the children.

The film was released to relative obscurity, but eventually achieved has cult status.