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Gretchen Corbett is an American actress most noted for the role of "Beth Davenport" on the television series The Rockford Files from 1974 to 1978.

Gretchen was born August 13, 1947 in Camp Sherman, Oregon, a remote village of about 200 in the heart of Ponderosa pine country. She studied drama at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech just before its merger into Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Her pursuit of a serious acting career brought her to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. She followed this with a role in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and The Man on stage in New York. One of her first television roles was on ABC's short-lived police detective show, N.Y.P.D., in 1968. In an episode called The Case of the Shady Lady, Corbett played a dancer who tries to make her husband's suicide into a murder for the insurance money.

She had a minor role as a mute in the 1971 cult film Let's Scare Jessica to Death. She starred in The Savage Bees (1976) with Ben Johnson and in The Jaws of Satan (1981) with Fritz Weaver and a very young Christina Applegate.

Rockford was a detective played by James Garner and Davenport portrayed his beleaguered lawyer and sometime lover. Corbett left the series over a salary dispute after the fourth season, and went on to do quite a bit of other television, eventually returning to play Davenport again in the Rockford Files TV movies of the 1990s. In the 2000s she works as Artistic Director of the Haven Project, a theatre project aimed at underprivileged children in Portland, Oregon. Her daughter Winslow Corbett, who physically resembles her mother, is also an actress, having toured as Elaine Robinson in stage versions of The Graduate
, among many other roles.

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