Elaine Devry, actress and Mickey Rooney’s fourth wife, dies aged 93-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Former actress Elaine Devry has died (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)

Elaine Devry, a film and TV star who became the fourth of Mickey Rooney’s eight wives, has died at the aged of 93.

She was best known in her career for films including The Atomic Kid and A Guide for the Married Man, as well as many TV show appearances ahead of her retirement from acting in the late 1970s.

Devry died on September 20 at her home in Grants Pass, Oregon, according to a notice on a local funeral home website.

She married MGM musicals star Mickey Rooney in Las Vegas in November 1952, before making her onscreen debut the next year in his film A Slight Case of Larceny.

The star also embraced TV from the start, next featuring in a Ronald Regan-hosted episode of General Electric Theater.

In 1954, The Atomic Kid followed, in which she was billed as Elaine Davis (Mrs Mickey Rooney).

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