Beverly Tyler
| Beverly Tyler | |
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circa 1940s
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| Born |
Beverly Jean Saul July 5, 1927 Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 23, 2005 (aged 78) Reno, Nevada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1940–1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Jim Jordan Jr. (1962–1998); his death) |
| Children | 4 |
Beverly Tyler (July 5, 1927 – November 23, 2005), was an American film actress and singer who was a minor MGM leading lady who appeared in a handful of mostly B movies in the 1940s and 1950s.
She was born Beverly Jean Saul in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1927, the daughter of a secretary and factory employee, who secured piano and music lessons for their daughter at a young age. She was reared in adjacent Dunmore, Pennsylvania, attended Central High School, and she and her parents were devout Methodists who were active in the Dunmore Methodist Church where Beverly sang in the choir. She began her career as a teenager on the local radio and went to Hollywood during World War II to work her way into motion pictures.
Tyler worked in over 30 motion pictures between 1943 and 1957, some of which included The Green Years, My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), The Fireball (1950), Voodoo Island (1957), The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958), and Hong Kong Confidential (1958). She also was a regular face on TV, appearing in such syndicated programs as The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza and Hazel.
In May 1962, she married Jim Jordan, Jr., the son of the famed 1930s radio couple Fibber McGee and Molly, and had a son and three daughters. They remained married until Jordan Jr.'s death in December 1998.
She also appeared on Broadway during her teenage years as the female lead in the 1945 production The Firebird of Florence. During her time in Hollywood, she was well known as a "girl about town" being seen at some of Tinsel Town's most popular nightclubs with such leading men as Mickey Rooney, Rory Calhoun, and Peter Lawford. Her last appearance on the small screen was in 1961, and for the next couple of decades she focused on marriage, motherhood, and was a mainstay on the local theatre and supper club circuit in Reno until her retirement in 1990. She did return to her native Scranton/Dunmore area in 1950 to promote her picture The Fireball and was given the key to the city by then mayor James T. Hanlon and she also went back to spend a few weeks in 1990 after her retirement to visit her old neighborhood with a childhood friend she kept in touch with.
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