Beverly Michaels

Biography

Beverly Michaels was an American B-movie actress and model of the 1950s, born in New York City and known for bad girl roles. She started at 16 as a showgirl at a New York nightclub run by Billy Rose, made her stage debut in Glad to See You, then danced in Havana for a year and worked as a Broadway chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood in 1948, modeled, and under MGM made her screen debut in East Side, West Side (1949). Hugo Haas cast her in the film noir Pickup, a surprise hit that helped launch a cycle of bad girl pictures, and The Girl on the Bridge. She signed with Columbia and Universal and appeared in No Holds Barred, a Bowery Boys film, in 1952. Then Wicked Woman (1953), which The Village Voice called wonderfully lurid and listed among memorable cult films. She appeared in Crashout (1955), Women Without Men and television guest roles. She died in 2007.

78years old at death

Born December 28, 1928New York City
Died June 9, 2007Phoenix
Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Also credited as Beverly Eileen Michaels

Movie Career

Films: 3
Career span: 6 years1949 to 1955

Every film, newest first

1955CrashoutIMDb rating 6.9
1953Wicked WomanIMDb rating 6.7
1949East Side, West SideIMDb rating 6.9

Genres

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First role
Michaels started her career in 1944 at 16, working as a showgirl at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York. That same year she made her stage debut in Glad to See You.
Big break
Michaels's role in the 1951 film noir Pickup, a surprise hit, helped launch Hugo Haas's career as a Hollywood director and played a large part in starting the 1950s cycle of bad girl movies.
A change of course
In late 1952, Michaels went on a USO tour of Alaska, where she sang Christmas carols for the troops stationed there.