Irene Manning (July 17, 1912 – May 28, 2004) was an actress/singer. She was born Inez Harvuot in Cincinnati, Ohio in a family of five siblings. She was briefly credited as Hope Manning in her first films, as she broke in with the Republic Studios system in 1936. Her first film placed her as the lead actress in a western, The Old Corral, opposite Gene Autry. She is probably best remembered as diva “Fay Templeton” in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), opposite James Cagney.
