Thelma Elaine Mahnken Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Elaine Devry was born on January 10, 1930 in Compton, California, USA as Thelma Elaine Mahnken. She is an actress, known for The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), Herbie Rides Again (1974) and Diary of a Madman (1963). She was previously married to Mickey Rooney and Dan Ducich.
[on her marriage to Mickey Rooney] Living with Mickey is no bed of roses. Six wives can't all be wrong.
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Her mother, Hortense (Davis) Mahnken, worked as a Walt Disney Studios animator.
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She met her first husband, Dan Ducich (c. 1928-54), a college basketball player, in Compton, California, but he took her to live in Butte, Montana, after their marriage.
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She began modeling at 15.
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She modeled, in the nude, for photographer Heda Emerson Hall, circa 1950.
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She divorced her first husband while he was on probation for armed robbery.
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She moved back to Los Angeles soon after her first marriage ended in divorce in 1952 and, within two months, met Mickey Rooney at the Woodland Hills driving range.
Her first husband, Dan Ducich, gambled heavily and complained he owed money to Las Vegas mobsters. He was found dead 21 June 1954 at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, an apparent suicide.