Irene Hervey

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Irene Hervey (July 11, 1910 - December 20, 1998) was born in Los Angeles, California.

1 Career
2 Family
3 Filmography
4 Death
5 References
6 External links

Likeable blonde leading lady Irene Hervey entered films as an MGM contract player in 1933. For her first few years before the camera, she did yeoman work as a bit player in features and supporting actress in MGM's short subjects. Free-lancing in the mid-1930s, Hervey worked her way up to leads; one of her more offbeat performances was as a Gilbert and Sullivan actress in 1936's The Girl Said No. From 1938 through 1943, Hervey worked at Universal, where she seemingly did everything she was asked: she appeared opposite James Stewart in the big-budget Destry Rides Again (1939), was top-billed in such "B"s as Frisco Lil (1942), looked frightened in the bottom-bill horror film Night Monster (1942), and even did a stint as a dauntless serial heroine in Gangbusters (1942). Leading lady in standard US screen fare of the 30's and 40's, later in TV. She was a World War II pin-up girl. [1]

She took several years off to devote herself to her family, then returned before the cameras in supporting parts in the late 1940s. In 1965, Hervey was featured on a weekly basis as meddlesome Aunt Meg on the tongue-in-cheek private eye TV series Honey West.

She was married to Allan Jones; their son is a popular singer Jack Jones and a daughter Gail Christensen, who was adopted by Allan.

Play Misty for Me (1971)

Cactus Flower (1969)

Going Steady (1958)

Crash Landing (1958)

Teenage Rebel (1956)

A Cry in the Night (1956)

Chicago Deadline (1949)

Manhandled (1949)

The Lucky Stiff (1949)

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

Mickey (1948)