Elaine Devry, ‘The Atomic Kid’ Star and Fourth Wife of Mickey Rooney, Dies at 93
variety.comMichaela Zee Elaine Devry, who appeared in such films as “The Atomic Kid” and “A Guide for the Married Man” and dozens of television series, died Sept.
20 at her home in Grants Pass, Oregon, according to a notice on a local funeral home website. She was 93. Devry married actor Mickey Rooney in Las Vegas in November 1952, becoming the fourth of Rooney’s eight wives.
She made her first onscreen appearances the following year in the comedy film “A Slight Case of Larceny” starring Rooney, as well as an episode of the Ronald Reagan-hosted CBS anthology series “General Electric Theater.” In the 1954 sci-fi comedy “The Atomic Kid,” directed by Leslie H.
Martinson, she played nurse Audrey Nelson opposite Rooney’s Barnaby “Blix” Waterberry; she was billed as “Elaine Davis (Mrs.
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