Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the lovable Martha Sterling in "My Brother Talks to Horses" (1947). Born Beverly Jean Saul, she was raised in a traditional working-class family, the only daughter of a secretary and a factory worker. After performing in school and church functions, following several screen and vocal auditions at the MGM Office in New York City, New York, she was discovered by director Edward Buzzell. Impressed by her dark good looks, angelic voice, and maturity beyond her years, he took notice of her potential and signed her under contract providing her with her first screen appearance per his supervision via a supporting role in "The Youngest Profession" (1943). From there, she would go on to flourish as a notable character actress appearing in over 35 features; often typecast as young wives, mothers, lovable sisters, faithful friends, retail clerks, white-collared workers, singers, love interests, nurses, educators, cowgirls, femme fatales, clergywomen, eccentrics, playgirls, and debutantes. She appeared in such feature films as "Best Foot Forward" (1943), "Bathing Beauty" (1944), "The Green Years" (1946), "The Beginning or the End" (1947), "The Fireball" (1950), "The Palomino" (1950), "The Battle at Apache Pass" (1952), "The Cimmaron Kid" (1952), "Voodoo Island" (1957), "Chicago Confidential" (1957), "The Toughest Gun in Tombstone" (1958), and "Hong Kong Confidential" (1958). On television, she became an even more familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Silver Theatre," "Cavalcade of Stars," "Dangerous Assignment," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Fireside Theatre," "Shower of Stars," "Climax!," "Damon Runyon Theatre," "Death Valley Days," "The Ford Television Theatre," "Bronco," "Mike Hammer," "Colonel Humphrey Flack," "The Lineup," "Tightrope," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Shotgun Slade," "Bonanza," "The Andy Griffith Show," and "Hazel". During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a popular pin up model, had been courted by such prestigious leading men as Rory Calhoun and Peter Lawford, was accoladed as one of the 1957 Deb Stars, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Methodist church, presided as a chairwoman for her local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs, and she was married to actor Jim Jordan, Jr., from 1962 until his death in 1998 (their union produced four children). Following her withdrawal from film and television acting in 1973 after her final film "Bubbe" (1973), she spent the final years of her life focusing on marriage and motherhood, had been a notable mainstay in local theatre and supper clubs, and was involved in charitable and religious ventures until her death.