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'''Nellie Elizabeth “Irish” McCalla''' (1928 December 25 – 2002 February 1) was an American actress and artist best known as the star ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' (TV, 1955–’56). She was also a well-known “Vargas Girl” model for Alberto Vargas. McCalla has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1722 Vine Street. She is survived by two sons, Kim and Sean McIntyre. TEST
==Artist==
{{c|va}} {{work |pre=McCalla |title=Mail Order Bride |subt= |first=Irish |last=McCalla |date=1975 |bind=18×24″ on 21×28 print |pub=#67/500 |isbn= |msrp=}}
{{c|va}} {{work |pre=McCalla |title=The Letter |subt= |first=Irish |last=McCalla |date=1981 |bind=18×24″ on 21×28 print |pub=#103/500 |isbn= |msrp=}}
{{c|va}} {{work |pre=McCalla |title={{abbr|Blossom Soft|daughter-in-law & first granddaughter}} |first=Irish |last=McCalla |date=1983 |bind=16×20″ on 20×24 print |pub= |isbn= |msrp=}}
{{c|va}} {{work |pre=McCalla |title=Warm Summer Night |subt= |first=Irish |last=McCalla |date=1992 |bind=digital print |pub= |isbn= |msrp=}}

==Actress==
{| class="sortable wikitable"
!Date	!!Title	!!Role
|-
|c.&thinsp;1950	||''Irish McCalla at the Beach'' <small>(short)</small>	||herself <small>(modeling)</small>
|-<!-- trip started 1950-09-05, see ''Night and Day'' (1951) -->
|1952	||''River Goddesses'' <small>(documentary)</small><ref name="river">{{cite web |url=http://www.terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/films/river.htm |title=River Goddesses (1952) |first=Paul |last=Wickham |date=May 2008 |work=Irish McCalla Biography |pub=Terror Orstralis}}</ref>	||herself <small>(modeling in the Grand Canyon)</small>
|-
|1954-12-04	||''The George Gobel Show'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;#1.8)</small>	||Fashion Model
|-
|1955-03-05	||''The George Gobel Show'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;#1.18)</small><ref name="earlyTV">{{cite web |url=http://terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/television/PA-01.htm |title=Early Experience |first=Paul |last=Wickham |date=August 2007 |work=Irish McCalla Biography |pub=Terror Orstralis}} (Kirk Douglas was in the same ''GGS'' episode, Jack Carson hosted the ''CCH'' episode, and the ''NTG'' episode was contemporary.)</ref>	||herself <small>(actress)</small>
|-
|1955	||''Backstage with {{abbr|N.T.G.|Nils T. Grunland}}'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;?)</small><ref name="earlyTV" />	||herself <small>(model)</small>
|-
|{{abbr|1955-10|1955-09-25, 1955-10-02, or 1955-10-23}}	||''The Colgate Comedy Hour'': <small>(#6.2,&thinsp;3&thinsp;or&thinsp;5)</small><ref name="earlyTV" />	||herself <small>(model)</small>
|-
|1955&#8202;–&#8202;1956	||'''''Sheena: Queen of the Jungle'''''	||Sheena <small>(26 episodes)</small>
|-
|1956-06-05	||{{wp|Texaco Star Theatre|''The Milton Berle Show''}}: <small>(ep.&thinsp;#8.13)</small>	||herself <small>(actress)</small>
|-
|1957-08-25	||''The Steve Allen Show'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;#2.45)</small>	||herself <small>(''Sheena'' actress)</small>
|-
|c.&thinsp;1957	||''{{wp|The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show}}'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;?)</small><ref name="postSheenaTV">{{cite web |url=http://www.terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/television/PA-03.htm |title=Other Television Appearances |first=Paul |last=Wickham |date=August 2007 |work=Irish McCalla Biography |pub=Terror Orstralis}} (Andy Williams was in the same ''TEFS'' episode.)</ref>	||herself <small>(''Sheena'' actress)</small>
|-
|1958-01-01	||''She Demons''	||Jerrie Turner
|-
|1959-06-15	||''Disneyland ’59'' <small>(documentary)</small>	||herself <small>(''Sheena'' actress)</small>
|-
|1959-07-03	||''The Beat Generation''	||Marie Baron
|-
|1959-09-23	||''Five Gates to Hell''	||Sister Magdalena
|-
|1960-08-01	||''Five Bold Women''	||‘Big Pearl’ Jackson
|-
|1960s	||{{wp|Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (play)|''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?'' <small>(play)</small>}}<ref name="stage">{{cite web |url=http://www.terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/television/PA-06.htm |title=Irish In Live Theatre |first=Paul |last=Wickham |date=August 2007 |work=Irish McCalla Biography |pub=Terror Orstralis}}</ref>	||Rita Marlowe
|-
|1960s	||{{wp|The Seven Year Itch (play)|''The Seven Year Itch'' <small>(play)</small>}}<ref name="stage" />	||The Girl
|-
|1961-06-22	||''You Bet Your Life'': <small>(ep.&thinsp;#11.37)</small>	||herself <small>(''Sheena'' actress)</small>
|-
|1962-04-22	||''Hands of a Stranger''	||Holly
|-
|1963-01-12	||''Have Gun – Will Travel'': “Bob Wire”	||Anna Anderson
|-
|1963-12-13	||''77 Sunset Strip'': “The Fumble”	||Lynette
|}

==Model==
{{c|w}} {{work |pre=Vargas |title=4 of Diamonds |subt=(Irish McCalla) |first=Alberto |last=Vargas |date=c.1947 |bind= |pub=''True'' (Dec.1951), ''Cavalier'' <small>(12/52–4/53,7/53 BC)</small>, and a Vargas playing card}}
{{c|va}} {{work |pre=Van Gilder |title=Royal Pair |subt=Irish McCalla |first=Ron |last=Van Gilder |first2=Irish |last2=McCalla |date=1995 |bind=∼24×36″ signed print |pub=series of 750}}

===AC Comics===
* ''Irish of the Jungle'' (1992)
* ''Jungle Girls'', #4 (1992)
* ''Jungle Girls'', #5 (1992)
* ''TV's Original Sheena: Irish McCalla'' (1992)
* ''Good Girl Quarterly'' #11 (1993)
* ''The Golden Age of Sheena'' (1999)
* ''Wild Woman'' #1 (1999)
* ''Femforce'' #118 Special Edition (2003)

===Pin-up===
:5′9½″, 39½″-24″-38″
{| class="sortable wikitable"
!Publication	!!Date	!!Pages	!!Notes
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1950-08-01" |August 1950	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1950-09-01" |Sept. 1950	||p.?	||—
|-
|{{abbr|''Eve''|The Woman's Magazine For Men}} {{c|va|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1950-10-01" |{{abbr|Oct. 1950|Vol. 1, No. 1&#10;October, 1950}}	||C, p.11–13	||“Meet Eve”, Virginia Travers <small>(photos from ''Globe'')</small>
|-
|{{abbr|''Eve''|The Woman's Magazine For Men}} {{c|w|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1950-11-01" |Nov. 1950	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Eve'' {{c| |t}}	|| data-sort-value="1950-12-01" |Dec. 1950	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1951-01-01" |January 1951	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1951-03-01" |March 1951	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1951-04-01" |April 1951	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Frolic''	|| data-sort-value="1951-05-01" |May 1951	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Frolic''	|| data-sort-value="1951-07-01" |July 1951	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Famous Models''	|| data-sort-value="1951-09-01" |Sept.–Oct. 1951	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1951-09-01" |Sept. 1951	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''True'' {{c| |t}}	|| data-sort-value="1951-12-01" |Dec. 1951	||pp.44–45	||“True Girl” by Vargas
|-
|''People Today''	|| data-sort-value="1952-01-01" |1952 <small>(Vol. 5, No. 6)</small>	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1952-02-01" |February 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Gala'' <small>(Vol. 2, #6)</small>	|| data-sort-value="1952-03-01" |March 1952	||p.25	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1952-04-01" |April 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1952-05-01" |May 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Man'' <small>(UK)</small>	|| data-sort-value="1952-08-01" |August 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1952-08-01" |August 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Pagent''	|| data-sort-value="1952-08-01" |August 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Vue''	|| data-sort-value="1952-10-01" |Oct. 1952	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Show'' {{c|✓|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1952-11-01" |{{abbr|Nov. 1952|Vol. 1, No. 3}}	||C, 11–15	||“Irish McCalla: Why Fans Love Her” <small>(photos from ''Globe'')</small>
|-
|''Cavalier''	|| data-sort-value="1953-01-01" |{{abbr|1953|One of:&#10;• 1952 December&#10;• 1953 January&#10;• 1953 February&#10;• 1953 March&#10;• 1953 April&#10;• 1953 July}}	||BC	||Vargas’  “4♦”, “True Girl”
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1953-01-01" |January 1953	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1953-02-01" |February 1953	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1953-03-01" |March 1953	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1953-07-01" |July 1953	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1953-10-01" |Oct. 1953	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Point''	|| data-sort-value="1954-03-01" |March 1954	||p.?	||—
|-
|''People Today'' {{c|va|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1954-08-11" |{{abbr|August 11, 1954|Vol. 9, No. 3}}	||C, 30–34	||“Irish McCalla ‘The Magic Body’” <small>(photos by David Sutton)</small>
|-
|''People Today'' {{c|va|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1954-09-08" |{{abbr|September 8, 1954|Vol. 9, No. 5}}	||p.64	||“Letters” <small>(photo by David Sutton)</small>
|-
|''Focus''	|| data-sort-value="1954-09-01" |Sept. 1954	||C, 27–?	||“Say At the Office with Irish McCalla”
|-
|''Photo''	|| data-sort-value="1954-10-01" |Oct. 1954	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Fabulous Females''	|| data-sort-value="1955-01-01" |1955 <small>(No. 1)</small>	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Gala'' <small>(Vol. 5, #5)</small>	|| data-sort-value="1955-01-01" |January 1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Picture Scope''	|| data-sort-value="1955-01-01" |Jan. 1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Frolic''	|| data-sort-value="1955-02-01" |February 1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Tempo''	|| data-sort-value="1955-03-21" |3/21/1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Art Photography''	|| data-sort-value="1955-05-01" |May 1955	||p.?	||Bettie Page cover
|-
|''Man’s''	|| data-sort-value="1955-06-01" |June 1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Point''	|| data-sort-value="1955-12-01" |Dec. 1955	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Night and Day''	|| data-sort-value="1956-02-01" |February 1956	||p.?	||—
|-
|''T.V. Star Parade''	|| data-sort-value="1956-02-01" |February 1956	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Vue''	|| data-sort-value="1956-03-01" |March 1956	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Vue''	|| data-sort-value="1956-03-01" |March 1956	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Picture week''	|| data-sort-value="1956-03-27" |March 27, 1956	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Show''	|| data-sort-value="1956-10-01" |Oct. 1956	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Snappy''	|| data-sort-value="1957-03-01" |March 1957	||BC	||—
|-
|''Blighty'' <small>(Iss. 910, UK)</small>	|| data-sort-value="1957-04-06" |April 6, 1957	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Jest''	|| data-sort-value="1957-05-01" |May 1957	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''People Today''  {{c|✓|t}}	|| data-sort-value="1957-12-01" |{{abbr|Dec. 1957|Vol. 14, No. 6&#10;December, 1957}}	||BC, 50–55	||“Irish McCalla: ‘Me Sheena, Me Good Girl Now’” <small>(photos by {{abbr|Meyer|Globe photogropher}})</small>
|-
|''Latin Twist''	|| data-sort-value="1959-01-01" |1959 <small>(CLP 5171)</small>	||[http://lpcoverlover.com/2015/03/25/latin-with-an-irish-twist/ LP] Cover	||<small>Photography: Joseph Tauber • Band: Louis Martinelli and the Continentals</small>
|-
|''Music For Big Dame Hunters''	|| data-sort-value="1960-01-01" |1960 <small>(CLP 5173)</small>	||[http://lpcoverlover.com/2008/09/09/dame-on/ LP] [https://voluptuousvinyl.com/products/sounds-of-a-thousand-strings-the-music-for-big-dame-hunters-1960 Cover]	||<small>Photography: Joseph Tauber • Band: Sounds of a Thousand Strings</small>
|-
|''Starweek''	|| data-sort-value="1982-08-01" |August 1982	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Celebrity Sleuth''	|| data-sort-value="1991-01-01" |1991 <small>(Vol. 5, #1)</small>	||p.32–33	||“Separate But Sequel: Irish McCalla”
|-
|''Prevue Pin-Up Special 2''	|| data-sort-value="1994-08-01" |Aug.–Oct. 1994	||pp.34–39	||“The She-Cat Who Put the She in Sheena” by Steranko
|-
|''Tease''	|| data-sort-value="1995-01-01" |1995 <small>(#3)</small>	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Scarlet Street''	|| data-sort-value="1996-01-01" |1996 <small>(No. 23)</small>	||C, p.?	||—
|-
|''Celebrity Sleuth''	|| data-sort-value="1996-09-01" |1996 <small>(Vol. 9, #9)</small>	||p.56–59	||“Sheena Lives”
|-
|''Celebrity Sleuth''	|| data-sort-value="1997-01-01" |1997 <small>(Vol. 11, #1)</small>	||p.56	||“Star-Tistics”
|-
|''Playboy''	|| data-sort-value="1997-03-01" |March 1997	||p.118	||“Glamourcon” by Kevin Cook
|-
|''Ultra Filmfax'' <small>(Iss. 66)</small>	|| data-sort-value="1998-04-01" |Apr.–May 1998	||C, 74–78	||“Sheena, Queen of the Jungle” by Herb Fagen
|-
|''Femme Fatales''	|| data-sort-value="1999-01-01" |January 1999	||p.?	||—
|-
|''Playboy''	|| data-sort-value="1999-01-01" |January 1999	|| style="font-size:75%; line-height:1.2em;" |pp. 105–128,<br>pp. 214–220	||“Sex Stars of the Century”
|-
|''Playboy’s Sex Stars of the Century''	|| data-sort-value="1999-08-01" |August 1999	||p.89	||(Playboy Special Edition)
|-
|''Playboy''	|| data-sort-value="2001-12-01" |Dec. 2001	||p.168	||“Sheena’s World”
|-
|''Alberto Vargas''	|| data-sort-value="2006-01-01" |2006	||p.?	||<small>Works from the Max Vargas Collection</small> (painting & sketch)
|-
|''Playboy''	|| data-sort-value="2008-02-01" |February 2008	||p.60–68	||“Sheena… Without Her Wrap…” by Leonard Martin
|}

==Pawneean ’46==
Cover art (logo, Indian headdress, and crossed peace pipes) by Nellie McCalla.

===Seniors…===
;Nellie McCalla<sup> (p.8)</sup>
:“Irish”
:''“She is known for her artistic ability.”''
:{{nowrap|Band 2,&thinsp;3,&thinsp;4;}} {{nowrap|Girls’ Glee 3,&thinsp;4;}} {{nowrap|Choir 2,&thinsp;3,&thinsp;4;}} {{nowrap|Girls’ Octet 2,&thinsp;3;}} {{nowrap|Girls’ Sextet 4;}} {{nowrap|Girl Reserves 1;}} {{nowrap|Pep Club 4,&thinsp;President;}} {{nowrap|Pawneean Staff 2,&thinsp;3,&thinsp;4;}} {{nowrap|Annual Staff 4;}} {{nowrap|A cappella Choir 4;}} {{nowrap|Saxophone Quartet 3,&thinsp;4;}} {{nowrap|Opera 2,&thinsp;3;}} {{nowrap|Carnival Queen 4;}} {{nowrap|Class Play 4.}} 
;Class Will…<sup>(p.12)</sup>
: Nellie McCalla’s artistic ability to the person who draws the ''Pawneean'' covers next year.
;Class Prophecy…<sup>(p.13)</sup>
: Nellie McCalla—age 30, cartoonist for ''Esquire''. (It’s first class mail now, fellas!)
;Annual Staff…<sup>(p.20–21)</sup>
: Fourth Row: Nellie McCalla …
: Art Editor . . . . . . . . . Nellie McCalla
;Pawneean Staff…<sup>(p.23)</sup>
: Third Row: … Nellie McCalla …
: Art Editors . . . . . . . . . Nellie McCalla
;Band…<sup>(p.24)</sup>
: Tenor Saxophones: Nellie McCalla …
;Pep Club…<sup>(p.26)</sup>
: Third Row: … Nellie McCalla …
: President . . . . . . . . . Nellie McCalla
;Choir…<sup>(p.27)</sup>
: Third Row: … Nellie McCalla …
;Girls’ Glee…<sup>(p.28)</sup>
: Third Row: … Nellie McCalla …
;Calendar…<sup>(p.38–39)</sup>
: Dec. 3 &nbsp; Everyone calls Nellie “Rockette.”
: Mar. 1 &nbsp; High school carnival with confetti and stuff. Queen McCalla and King Gifford preside.
: May 1 &nbsp; Commencement. Au Revoir.

==EVE==
;''EVE'', The Woman’s Magazine for Men
:One of the Holmes Group
:Gambit Publishing Corp.
:Publisher, A. Lawrence Holmes
:Editor, Virginia Travers
:Managing Editor, Mary Anne Guitar
:Business Manager, George Becker
:Art Director, Carl Cerminaro
:Production Manager, Ann Waite
:Picture Credits: Covers, 1.11–13, 2.26–28—Globe

===Oct. 1950, Vol. 1, No. 1===
;EVE’s Cover
:Irish McCalla’s face and figure launch this first issue of ''EVE''. No amateur as a cover girl, Irish has a large and impressively enthusiastic following. But the readers of ''EVE'' will have a chance to look her over every month. In fact, if it hadn’t been for Irish, ''EVE'' might never have been born. And vice versa. You can read all about it on page&nbsp;11.
====Meet Eve====
;As a special reader bonus we’re giving you Irish McCalla, “Eve of the Year.” No premiums, checks, coupons required. Here’s why.

When the unsuspecting editors of ''Night and Day'' ran a picture of Irish McCalla they hope to get only a hundred letters or so asking for her phone number. But God is sometimes good to editors. The postman still drags in sacks of fan mail on Irish. Apparently she combines the happier qualities of the girl next-door and the eternal female. She is the Eve every man subconsciously looks for. Never slow to pass up an opportunity, the editors ordered a dozen more pictures. The publisher had a better idea. He created a magazine just for Irish. So here’s Eve and here’s ''EVE''.

Modeling isn’t a full-time job with Irish. She likes to paint herself, sold the third oil she ever made and is now working on a mural. Movies and television round out her career, don’t leave much time for art school studies.

Cartoonist Jefferson Machamer sizes up Irish before modeling session begins. When he met her the first time, he said, “For 20 years I’ve been making up a girl just like you … pigeon-toed even.” Now they’re a steady team.

Outside the studio, Irish spends free time at the beach, swimming, diving for lobster and abalone, and playing around on tricky paddle boards in trickier surf.

===Nov. 1950, Vol. 1, No. 2===
;EVE’s Cover
:All of the returns are not in on ''EVE'', the magazine, but we know for a fact that EVE, the girl, is a huge success. As faithful readers of ''Night and Day'', ''Taboo'', and ''EVE'' know we are now referring to Irish McCalla who is on our cover this month. She’s obviously getting as big a bang out of sponsoring a magazine as our readers are getting out of her. See page 26.
====Photo “Interview”====
;We don’t know how exclusive an interview can get but this one is probably something of a record breaker for its kind.

With the first issue (October) of this magazine, the editors announced the selection of Miss Irish McCalla as our title girl. Irish, a West Coast model and painter, is, in the opinion of this magazine and innumerable readers of ''Night and Day'', and ''Taboo'', where her pictures first appeared, one of the most remarkable young women of her time. Anticipating little disagreement with our selection, it seemed to the point to find out how Miss McCalla felt about her appointment. We have therefore prepared the attached photo-interview for your enlightenment. The method employed is quite obviously an adaptation of the current publishing successes—“The Frenchman,” “Home Sweet Zoo,” and “White Collar Zoo”—all picture-interview-article-type volumes which have met with a somewhat alarming success. We are pleased then, to present to you a completely mythical non-interview with one of the nation’s outstanding females. In case you don’t care to read on, she’s happy to be Eve.

;How does it feel to be Eve?
;Do you think this is a credit to you in any way?
;Why do you suppose you were selected to be Eve?
;Did you have a great deal of red-hot competition?
;We think the best woman won. Do you agree?
;What do you think it will get you in the long run?
;Suppose some Hollywood mobile makes an offer?
;Do you think beauty is really only skin deep?
;What are your plans for the immediate future?

==timeline==
{| class="wikitable"
!Date	!!Age	!!Event	!!Location
|-
| class="nowrap" |1928-12-25	||0y	||Nellie Elizabeth “Irish” McCalla born	||Pawnee City, Nebraska
|-
|1934-09	|| 5y 8m	||Irish enters first grade	||Pawnee City, Nebraska
|-
|1939 late<ref name="Iowa">{{cite web |url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/irish-mccalla |title=Irish McCalla |first=Tom |last=Longden |work=The Des Moines Register}}</ref>	||10y	||McCalla family moves	||Des Moines, Iowa
|-
|1941-11<ref name="Iowa" />	||12y10m	||McCalla family moves	||Marshalltown, Iowa
|-
|1942-09<ref name="Iowa" />	||13y 8m	||McCalla family moves	||Omaha, Nebraska
|-
|1942 late<ref name="Iowa" />	||13y	||McCalla family moves	||Pawnee City, Nebraska
|-
|1946-05-24	||17y 4m	||Irish graduates	||class of ’46, Pawnee City, Nebraska
|-
|1946-06	||17y 5m	||Irish moves	||Southern, California
|-
|1946 Summer	||17y	||''Irish, in a Miss California contest, meets and poses for Vargas.''	||Age according to Taschen. In 1946, Marilyn Buferd won Miss California and Miss America.
|-
|1947 Summer	||18y	||''Irish, in a Miss California contest, meets and poses for Vargas.''	||Age according to ''Terror Orstralis''. In 1947, Laura Jean Emery won Miss California but not Miss America.
|-
|1948-05-26	||19y 5m	||Irish is a Miss California contestant.<ref>{{cite web |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=Wednesday, May 26, 1948 |p=3 |quote=}}<br>“CANDIDATES—‘Col.’ H. L. Kuhlmeyer examines applicants of recruits to invade Northern California to seek the Miss California title. From left to right, Doris McGee, Irish McCalla, Lorraine Tribolet, Aster Miller, Pat Rose, and Marjorie Brewer.”</ref><!-- Circa 1980, an H.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Kuhlmeyer was the Acting Chief of Police for Manhattan Beach, CA. —{{cite web |pub=State of California |date=1980–81 |work=Directory of California Justice Agencies serving Juveniles and Adults |p=52}} -->	||''LA Times'' photo caption
|-
|1950-09-05	||21	||Irish marries Patrick McIntyre	||—
|-
|1951	||22	||Irish marries Patrick McIntyre	||—
|-
|1952	||23	||Irish is in ''River Goddesses''	|| as herself
|-
|1955–1956	||26–27	||Irish stars in ''Sheena''	|| as Sheena
|-
|1957	||28	||Irish and McIntyre divorce	||—
|-
|1958	||29	||Irish marries Patrick Horgan	||—
|-
|1958	||29	||Irish in ''She Demons''	||as Jerrie Turner
|-
|1959-07-03	||30	||Irish in ''The Beat Generation''	||as Marie Baron
|-
|1959-09-23	||30	||Irish in ''Five Gates to Hell''	||as Sister Magdalena
|-
|1960-08-01	||31	||Irish in ''Five Bold Woman''	||as 'Big Pearl' Jackson
|-
|1962-04-22	||33	||Irish in ''Hands of a Stranger''	||as Holly
|-
|1963-01-12	||34	||Irish in ''Have Gun - Will Travel''	||"Bob Wire" as Anna Anderson
|-
|1963-12-13	||34	||Irish in ''77 Sunset Strip''	||"The Fumble" as Lynette
|-
|1969-01	||40	||Irish and Horgan divorce	||—
|-
|1969	||40	||Irish diagnosed with brain tumor	||—
|-
|1981	||52	||Irish diagnosed with brain tumor	||—
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|1982	||53	||Irish marries Chuck Rowland	||—
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|1989	||60	||Irish and Rowland separate	||—
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|1993-09	||64	||Flacks shows Irish Vargas photos	||Glamorcon I
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|2002-02-01	||73	||Irish dies of stroke and tumor complications	||Tucson, Arizona
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For many years it was not widely known that Vargas and his wife, Anna, who was also present during the session, took about eight 4×6″ black-and-white photos of Irish naked, so <!--that -->Vargas could use them to paint from. They promised her <!--that -->they would be the only ones to see them. Those photos <!--of an 18-year-old Irish naked -->ended up in the possession of Erwin Flacks, a Las Vegas collector who had <!--the good fortune to -->purchased Vargas’ personal photos of his models<!--, which included the nude photos of Irish-->. Also included were the negatives. <!--
-->Flacks showed them to Irish and one of her closest personal friends when they were running a booth at the first Glamorcon Show in Los Angeles in September 1993. <!--
-->Irish, who had never seen the developed photos before, became a little annoyed and commented, “I knew these would show up one day”. She eventually lightened up a bit and during one of their conversations confided in him, “You are looking at an eighteen year old virgin”. <!--
-->She made him promise not to sell the photos while she was still alive. Irish had been battling recurrent brain tumors for many years at this stage. For that promise Irish agreed to sign several sets of photos that Flacks had prepared. <!--
-->Irish’s friend said that the photos were stunningly beautiful. <!--
-->Frank Bonilla, my collaborator on this site and the world’s most avid collector of Irish McCalla memorabilia, was unsuccessful in obtaining a set of the photos from Erwin Flacks, so in June 2007 he wrote to Hugh Hefner, a keen fan of Irish, and suggested that Playboy do a biographical story about Irish. <!--
-->He also alerted Hefner to the existence of the nude photos. Playboy managed to acquire those rare photos and used them for a feature story on Irish in the February 2008 issue of Playboy. <!--
-->The photos are indeed very beautiful but you won’t find them on this family-friendly site. If you would like to see them search The Net for sites that specialize in images of nude celebrities. <!--
-->A Vargas sketch of Irish’s nude torso also appears in the book, ''Alberto Vargas: Works from the Max Vargas Collection''.(2006 Bullfinch). Max Vargas was Alberto Vargas’ nephew. (Bonilla).
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::—{{cite web |url=http://terrororstralis.com/sheena/irish/biography/modelling06.htm |title=Modelling, Page 5 |date=May 2009 |first=Paul |last=Wickham |work=Irish McCalla Biography |pub=Terror Orstralis}}

==See also==
* {{cite |work=Ultra Filmfax |date=April 1988 |iss=66 |pp=74-78 |title=Sheena, Queen of the Jungle |first=Herb |last=Fagen}}
* {{work |title=TV’s Original Sheena: Irish McCalla |date=1992 |first=Bill |last=Black |pub=AC Comics & Paragon Pub. |isbn=1-56225-005-1}}
* {{cite |work=Prevue |date=October 1994 |vol=3 |no=2 |pp=34-39 |title=The She-Cat Who Put the She in Sheena |last=Steranko |first=Jim}}
* {{cite |work=Scarlet Street |date=1996 <small>[Oct–Dec]</small> |issue=No. 23 |pp=74-77, 95 |title=Irish McCalla |subt=Jungle Queen |first=Kevin G. |last=Shinnick}}
* {{work |title=Alberto Vargas |subt=Works from the Max Vargas Collection |date=2006 |isbn=978-0821257920 |first=Reid Stewart |last=Austin}}
* {{cite |work=Playboy |date=February 2008 |pp=60-68 |title=Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Without Her Wrap |first=Leonard |last=Maltin}}
* {{cite web |url=https://selvedgeyard.com/2013/05/30/the-six-degrees-of-sharon-tate-mao-mcqueen-manson-mad-men/ |title=the Six Degrees of Sharon Tate, Mao McQueen, Manson, Mad Men |date=2013-05-30 |pub=Selvedge Yard}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.vargaspinupart.com/ |title=Vargas Pin-up Art}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.americanartarchives.com/vargas.htm |title=Vargus |pub=American Art Archives}}
* {{cite web |url=https://flashbak.com/irish-mccalla-sheena-catalyst-impure-thoughts-62631/ |title=Irish McCalla, Sheena, Catalyst of Impure Thoughts |pub=FlashBak.com}}
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