Elaine Devry

Devry was born Thelma Elaine Mahnken to Fred P. and Hortense Mahnken in Compton, California, where she was raised. Her brother, Jeff, was three years her senior.[2] She began to model at age fifteen.[2] She graduated from Compton High School and later attended Compton Junior College,[2] where she was homecoming queen.[3]

After marrying her high school boyfriend, Dan Ducich, in 1948, the couple lived in Butte, Montana, until their 1952 divorce, upon which Devry returned to California, working as a carhop at the Dolores Drive-In on Wilshire Boulevard.[2]

Devry appeared in a number of films including A Guide for the Married Man. She was formerly married to actor Mickey Rooney.[4]

She was billed as Elaine Davis in her early acting roles, including her first film, The Atomic Kid, in which she and Rooney co-starred.[5] Devry made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the title role of defendant Janice Wainwright in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Shapely Shadow." She also appeared in many other popular television series, including Death Valley Days in the episode "Yankee Confederate" with Tod Andrews, Bonanza in the episode "The Search", 77 Sunset Strip, Burke's Law, Family Affair, I Dream of Jeannie, Marcus Welby, M.D., Dragnet, and Tales of Wells Fargo. She appeared on My Three Sons on season 10, episode 1 as Millicent Harper, a single woman who was set up on a date with Steven Douglas by his daughter-in-law Katie, but instead he meets Barbara and falls in love.

Devry married Dan Ducich, her high school boyfriend, in Butte, Montana, in September 1948.[2] The following year, Ducich was convicted of multiple robberies in Los Angeles and sentenced to five years' probation.[2] The couple resided in Butte, but divorced in 1952. She also had a six-year marriage[2] to actor Mickey Rooney, whom she met in 1952, and married on November 15, 1952, in Las Vegas.[5] They had a son and a daughter and divorced in 1958.[6] She was married to actor Will J White until his death on April 23, 1992 in Grants Pass, Oregon. Since 2005, Devry has lived on a ranch in Oregon.[2]

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