Here is the biography of Beverly Tyler:
Beverly Jean Saul was born on July 5, 1927, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a secretary mother and a typewriter company employee father. Her mother secured piano and music lessons for her, and Beverly made her singing debut on radio as a teenager. She moved to Hollywood with her mother and was groomed by MGM at the age of 14, making her film debut with a bit part in The Youngest Profession (1943) using her real name. She was later given the more attractive marquee name of Beverly Tyler.
Beverly's early career showed some promise, with notable roles opposite Tom Drake in The Green Years (1946) and Peter Lawford in My Brother Talks to Horses (1947). However, she was forced to wait out a lull in her career. Despite being a singer, she was never promoted in musicals by MGM or any other studio, although she did test for the Kathryn Grayson part in That Midnight Kiss (1949) starring Mario Lanza.
Beverly appeared 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. She also sang on TV variety shows such as Cavalcade of Stars and Shower of Stars. After a three-year absence, she returned to the camera with Mickey Rooney in The Fireball (1950) and another horse film, The Palomino (1950).
Most of Beverly's roles had her playing an altruistic love interest in rugged surroundings in western adventures such 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 challenge her multiple talents.
Beverly dated several notable actors, including Tom Drake, Peter Lawford, Audie Murphy, Mickey Rooney, and Rory Calhoun, but did not settle down in marriage until 1962, when she wed comedy writer/director Jim Jordan, Jr. She retired from the business and produced a son with her husband, appearing in a few local theater productions in Reno, Nevada, where she moved in 1972. Her husband later became a developer. Beverly died at the age of 78 on November 23, 2005, and was survived by her son and three step-daughters.
