Beverly Tyler

About Beverly Tyler

Who is it?: Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day: July 05, 1927
Birth Place:  Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Died On: November 23, 2005(2005-11-23) (aged 78)\nReno, Nevada
Birth Sign: Leo
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1940–1990
Spouse(s): Jim Jordan Jr. (1962–1998); his death)
Children: 4

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Beverly Tyler was born on July 05, 1927 in  Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, is Actress, Soundtrack. This relatively obscure, sweet-faced "B" level ingénue of the post-war 40s and 50s was born Beverly Jean Saul of modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1927. Her mother was a secretary who secured piano and music lessons for her young daughter. Her father was employed with a typewriter company. As a teenager Beverly made her singing debut on radio. Moving to Hollywood with her mother, she was groomed by MGM at the ripe old age of 14 and made her first picture with a bit part in The Youngest Profession (1943) using her real name. She was given the more attractive marquee name of "Beverly Tyler" before the ink had barely dried on her contract. Her career showed some signs of improvement after appearing opposite Tom Drake in The Green Years (1946) and Peter Lawford in the lightweight comedy My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), but then she was forced to wait out a lull.Strangely enough, other than for a brief singing bit in Best Foot Forward (1943), Beverly was never promoted in musicals by MGM, or any other studio for that matter -- although she did test once for the Kathryn Grayson part in That Midnight Kiss (1949) starring Mario Lanza. She did, however, appear in the short-lived Kurt Weill musical "The Firebrand of Florence" on Broadway in 1945, and performed in the musical "Miss Liberty" in Los Angeles in 1950. Beverly also sang on TV on such variety shows as "Cavalcade of Stars" and "Shower of Stars."She returned to the camera after a three-year absence in 1950 with Mickey Rooney in The Fireball (1950), and in another horse film, The Palomino (1950). Most of the roles offered had her playing an altruistic love interest amid rugged surroundings in such western adventures as The Battle at Apache Pass (1952) and The Cimarron Kid (1952). She made only a handful of films over the course of her career, which effectively ended once Voodoo Island (1957) and Hong Kong Confidential (1958) were in the can. A serviceable co-star, little attempt was made by the Hollywood powers-that-be to effectively challenge her multiple talents.Although she dated the likes of Tom Drake, Peter Lawford, Audie Murphy, Mickey Rooney and Rory Calhoun, this lovely sparrow did not settle down in marriage until 1962 when she wed comedy writer/director Jim Jordan, Jr. ("The Colgate Comedy Hour"), who was the son of the famous "Fibber McGee & Molly" radio couple. Beverly instantly retired from the business and together the couple produced a son. The only performing she has done over the years was to appear in a few local theater productions in Reno, Nevada, having moved there in 1972. Her husband later became a developer. Beverly died at age 78 of a pulmonary embolism on November 23, 2005, and was survived by her son, James W. Jordan, and three step-daughters.
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Biography/Timeline

1927

Tyler 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. When she was 14 years old, Tyler passed screen and voice tests and was informed, "you're a movie Actress."

1943

Tyler debuted in films billed as Beverly Jean Saul in The Youngest Profession (1943). She worked in over 30 motion pictures between 1943 and 1957, some of which included The Green Years (1946), My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), The Fireball (1950), Voodoo Island (1957), The Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958), and Hong Kong Confidential (1958). In 1953, Tyler played Lorelei Kilbourne on the television program Big Town. She also was seen in such syndicated programs as The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza and Hazel.

1945

Tyler appeared on Broadway during her teenage years as the female lead in the 1945 production The Firebird of Florence.

1961

Tyler's 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.

1962

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 his death in December 1998.

2005

Beverly Tyler died under her married name of Beverly Jordan on November 23, 2005, in Reno, Nevada, from pulmonary embolism and was laid to rest at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery in Reno, Nevada. She was survived by a son and three stepdaughters.