Anecdotes

Lost out on the ingénue role in L'Heure du Pardon (1947) to Janet Leigh, who made her film debut with this.

Retiring from the screen in the 1960s, she married comedy writer/director Jim Jordan (The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)) who was the son of the "Fibber McGee & Molly" radio couple (Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan).

At the age of 14 in 1941, she was on a bus trip to New York City for a day trip with some friends of hers and when they passed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer New York office they dared her to walk in and ask for an audition. Accepting the challenge, she entered, asked for one, was instantaneously given a screen and voice test, and upon completion was informed, "You're a movie actress" and signed to a contract that same afternoon.

Her remains were interred at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery, Washoe County, Reno, Nevada, in the Garden of Resurrection Columbarium.

She was considered for the roles of Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950), Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950), Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl (1954), and Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind (1956), but never got any part (any, if not all, of which would have been instrumental in elevating her career and potentially gaining her a major honor such as a would have been Academy Award).

A soprano, she began her career singing in the choir of the Dunmore Methodist Church in Dunmore, PA, where she and her family were active parishioners.

Beverly's husband, Jim Jordan, son of the original "Fibber McGee and Molly" actors, died on Christmas Eve 1998, at their home in Reno, Nevada from a heart attack. He was 75. Jim Jr. worked in TV, helming "The Texaco Star Theater", The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) and numerous Bob Hope specials before retiring and becoming a successful land developer in Reno in 1972. They had four children - a son and three daughters.

In December 1951, she went on a Christmas and New Years tour to Far East Korea to entertain the troops along with: Hillary Brooke, Gary Cooper, Paul Douglas, Piper Laurie, Richard Long, Mala Powers and Jan Sterling.

From 1962 up until her official retirement in 1990, she appeared in several stage productions at The Little Theatre in Reno, Nevada.

She was a lifelong Democrat.

In 1945, at the age of 18, she appeared on Broadway as the female lead in, "The Firebird of Florence".