Profile
Irish McCalla
Film and Television Actress
Female
Born
Dec 25, 1928
Hometown
Pawnee City, Nebr...
Died
Feb 1, 2002
Death Place
Tucson, Arizona
Other Names
Maccalla, Nellie ...
Nellie Elizabeth "Irish" McCalla was an American actress and artist best known as the title star of the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Sheena co-starred actor Chris Drake. McCalla was also a "Varga Girl" model for pinup girl artist… Read More
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Patrick McIntyreMarried 1951 - 1957
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CONWAY STRATFORDDated 1949
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CHILDHOOD
1928
Birth
Born on December 25, 1928.
TWENTIES
1951
22 Years Old
In 1951, she married insurance salesman Patrick McIntyre, with whom she had two sons.
1952
23 Years Old
McCalla was already a popular pinup model by 1952, when she and other models appeared in the film River Goddesses, consisting of several voluptuous young women frolicking in Glen Canyon.
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1957
28 Years Old
McCalla and McIntyre divorced in 1957, and the following year McCalla married prolific English actor and James Joyce/Sherlock Holmes scholar Patrick Horgan. They divorced in 1963.
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FORTIES
1969
40 Years Old
Aged 73, Irish McCalla died of a stroke and complications from her fourth brain tumor — previous tumors were diagnosed in 1969 and 1981.
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FIFTIES
LATE ADULTHOOD
1996
67 Years Old
She made personal appearances at autograph conventions, appearing as late as 1996 in a faux-leopard Sheena costume.
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2002
73 Years Old
Died on February 1, 2002.
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