Trivia

Her father, Fred Mahnken, became the gardener/handyman at the Mickey Rooney home in Woodland Hills, CA, after she became Mrs. Rooney.

She divorced her first husband while he was on probation for armed robbery.

Her mother, Hortense (Davis) Mahnken, worked as a Walt Disney Studios animator.

She modeled, in the nude, for photographer Heda Emerson Hall, circa 1950.

She began modeling at 15.

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.

She received a small part in A Slight Case of Larceny (1953), thanks to her new husband, Mickey Rooney.

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.

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.

Red-haired American actress, billed until 1961 as Elaine Davis (Davis being her mother's maiden name). She attracted more publicity for her stormy six year-long marriage to Mickey Rooney (as the fourth of his eight wives) than for her acting.

After divorcing her first husband in 1952, she moved back to California to live with her (also divorced) mother, while working as a car hop at the Dolores Drive-In on Wilshire Boulevard.

Voted Compton Community College beauty queen.

Graduated from Compton High School in Compton, California.

Graduated from Compton Community College in Compton, California.