PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Irish McCalla, an actress best known for her title role in the 1950s television series "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle," has died. She was 73.
McCalla died Feb. 1 of complications from a brain tumor and stroke, her eldest son, Kim McIntyre, said Saturday. She had been moved to a Tucson care home about 18 months earlier after being diagnosed with her fourth brain tumor, McIntyre said.
McCalla liked to say she was discovered by Nassour Studios while she was throwing a bamboo spear on a Malibu beach.
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"I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees," McCalla once told The Prescott Courier.