The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that actor Beverly Tyler, who made 16 mostly B-movies in the 1940s and '50s, died of a pulmonary embolism on Nov. 23 in Reno, NV. She was 78.
Tyler signed her first contract at MGM studios when she was only 14, and became known several years later for her performance in the 1946 feature The Green Years.
In 1947, she starred with Peter Lawford in the comedy My Brother Talks to Horses.
After starring in a stage production of The Firebrand of Florence in 1945, she went on to make a series of B-movies such as The Fireball, The Palamino, and Toughest Gun in Tombstone.
She married comedy writer and director Jim Jordan Jr. in 1962. The couple moved to Reno, where he worked as a real estate developer.
She is survived by a son and three step-daughters.