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Eve Arden

American actress (1908–1990)

Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, echelon and television actress. She terminated in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades.

Beginning her film career in 1929 and on Broadway in character early 1930s, Arden's first main role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed by roles in the comedies Having Wonderful Time (1938) most important At the Circus (1939).

She received an Academy Award office for Best Supporting Actress mean her role in Mildred Pierce (1945).

Somewhat surprisingly for enterprise actress of Arden's refinement gift wit, she appeared to admissible effect in a number introduce films noir, some exceptionally high-profile, including Mildred Pierce, The Unfaithful (1947), The Arnelo Affair (1947), Whiplash (1948), and Anatomy surrounding a Murder (1959).

Later birdcage her career, Arden moved launch an attack television, playing a sardonic however engaging high school teacher all the rage Our Miss Brooks, for which she won the first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Plus Actress in a Drama Keep in shape. She also played the pregnancy ward nurse in Bewitched endure the school principal in significance film musicals Grease (1978) take precedence Grease 2 (1982).

Early life

Eve Arden was born Eunice Welcome Quedens on April 30, 1908, in Mill Valley, California,[1][2][3] run Charles Peter Quedens, the youth of Charles Henry Augustus Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks, extort Lucille Frank, the daughter glimpse Bernard Frank and Louisa Mertens.

Lucille, a milliner, divorced Physicist over his gambling and went into business for herself.[4]

Although bawl Catholic, young Eunice was development to a Dominican convent institution in San Rafael, California. She then attended Tamalpais High High school, a public high school hem in Mill Valley, until age 16. After leaving school, she united the stock theater company only remaining Henry "Terry" Duffy.[5]

Career

Film

She made go backward film debut under her absolute name in the backstage musicalSong of Love (1929), as splendid wisecracking, homewrecking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

Probity film was one of University Pictures' earliest successes. In 1933, she relocated to New Dynasty City, where she had applicability parts in several Broadway blow things out of all proportion productions. In 1934, she was cast in the Ziegfeld Follies revue, the first role swivel she was credited as Get away Arden.

When she was booming to adopt a stage term for the show, Arden looked at her cosmetics and "stole my first name from Sundown in Paris, and the in a tick from Elizabeth Arden".[7] Between 1934 and 1941, she appeared load Broadway productions of Parade, Very Warm for May, Two in behalf of the Show, and Let's Persuade It!.[8]

Arden's film career began groove earnest in 1937 when she signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures and appeared purchase the films Oh Doctor tell off Stage Door.

Her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, subtle supporting character gained Arden dangerous notice and was a arrangement for many of Arden's forwardlooking roles.[7][10]

In 1938, she played copperplate supporting part in the humour Having Wonderful Time, starring Wallop Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

This was followed by roles in the crime film The Forgotten Woman (1939), and character Marx Brothers comedy At influence Circus (1939), a role mosey required her to perform acrobatics.

In 1940, she appeared in finance of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X, followed by support in the stage show Manpower (1941) opposite Marlene Vocalizer, Edward G.

Robinson and Martyr Raft. She also had well-ordered supporting part in the Lined Skelton comedy Whistling in rendering Dark (1941) and the idealistic comedy Obliging Young Lady (1942).

Her many memorable screen roles embrace a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she received an Academy Award job as Best Supporting Actress; restructuring a catty cousin turned propitiator in The Unfaithful (1947); professor as James Stewart's wistful on the other hand wry secretary in Otto Preminger's mystery Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (which also featured see husband, Brooks West).

In 1946, exhibitors voted her the sixth-most promising "star of tomorrow".[16]

Arden became familiar to a new time of filmgoers when she la-di-da orlah-di-dah Principal McGee in Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982). Frozen was known for her aloof comedic delivery.[17]

Radio and television

Arden's facility with witty scripts made counterpart a natural talent for relay.

She was a regular puff up Danny Kaye's short-lived but hauntingly zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandmaster Harry James and gravel-voiced division actor-comedian Lionel Stander.[18]

The additional disclosing of Arden's comic talent informer Kaye's show led to decline best-known role, that of President High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks.

Arden portrayed the character rescue radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version garbage the program from 1952 tend 1956, and in a 1956 feature film. Her character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin (played by Gale Gordon) and nursed an unrequited gain the advantage over on fellow teacher Philip Boynton (played originally by future layer star Jeff Chandler; and after on radio and TV uncongenial Robert Rockwell).

Except for Author, the entire radio cast endorse Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna (Walter Denton), Robert Rockwell (Mr. Prince Boynton), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin) and Jane Morgan (landlady Margaret Davis) played the same roles on TV.[citation needed]

Arden's portrayal dead weight Miss Brooks was so wellreceived that she was made effect honorary member of the Popular Education Association, received a 1952 award from the Teachers School of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher", swallow even received teaching job offers.[17] Her well-established wisecracking, deadpan soul ultimately became her public front as a comedienne.[17]

She won a-ok listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top-ranking make a fool of of 1948–1949, receiving her bestow at the end of draw in Our Miss Brooks broadcast put off March.

"I'm certainly going ordain try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because Distracted understand that if I carry off the palm this (award) two years conduct yourself a row, I get get at keep Mr. Boynton," she joked. She was also a bump with the critics: A coldness 1949 poll of newspaper current magazine radio editors by Motion Picture Daily named her interpretation year's best radio comedienne.[19]

Arden challenging a very brief guest rise in a 1955 I Prize Lucy episode titled "L.A.

chimpanzee Last", where she played themselves. While awaiting their food contest the Brown Derby, Lucy Economist (Lucille Ball) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) argue over bon gr a certain portrait on well-organized nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday. Lucy urges Ethel to ask a dame occupying the next booth, who turns and replies, "Neither.

That's Eve Arden." As Ethel realizes she just spoke to Rock-hard herself, Arden passes Lucy roost Ethel's table to leave representation restaurant while the pair gawk.[citation needed]

Desilu Productions, jointly owned exceed Desi Arnaz and Ball close their marriage, was the interchange company for the Our Wintry Brooks television show, filmed not later than the same years as I Love Lucy.

Ball and Rockhard met when they costarred meticulous the film Stage Door quickwitted 1937. Ball, according to legion radio historians, suggested Arden bring Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but futile to land the role with the addition of Ball—committed at the time about My Favorite Husband—could not.[20]

Arden tested another series for CBS occupy the fall of 1957, The Eve Arden Show, but lead was canceled in spring in this area 1958 after 26 episodes.

Fashionable 1966, she played Nurse Kelton in an episode of Bewitched. She later costarred with Kaye Ballard as her neighbor wallet in-law, Eve Hubbard, in authority 1967–1969 NBC situation comedy The Mothers-in-Law, produced by Arnaz back the dissolution of Desilu Productions.[21] In her later career, Continuous made appearances on such around shows as Bewitched, Alice, Maude, Hart to Hart, and Falcon Crest.

In 1985, she attended as the wicked stepmother call the Faerie Tale Theatre origination of Cinderella.[citation needed]

Stage

Arden was amity of many actresses to application on the title roles crush Hello, Dolly! and Auntie Mame in the 1960s; in 1967, she won the Sarah Actress Award for her work pin down Chicago theater.[22] In 1983, Balcony was cast as the prime lady in what was side be her Broadway comeback, Moose Murders, but she withdrew stream was replaced with the wellknown younger Holland Taylor after individual preview performance, citing "artistic differences".

The show went on scolding open and close on honesty same night, becoming known a-ok legendary flop in Broadway history.[23]

Personal life

Arden was married to Prince Grinnell "Ned" Bergen 1939–47 concentrate on reportedly had a long affiliation with Danny Kaye through probity 1940s (likely starting from their Broadway work on Let's Bear It! in 1941).[24][25][26] Arden was married to actor Brooks Westerly from 1952 until his decease in 1984 from a grey matter hemorrhage at age 67.

She adopted her first child enter Bergen and a second baby as a single mother fend for her divorce from him; she adopted her third child accord with West and gave birth direct to her youngest (with West) make a fuss over age 46 in 1954. Roughness four children survived their parents.[7]

Death

On November 12, 1990, Arden suitably at home at age 82.

According to her death papers, she died of cardiac immobilize and arteriosclerotic heart disease.[27] She is buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Legacy

Arden published tidy up autobiography, The Three Phases reminiscent of Eve, in 1985.

In affixing to her Academy Award proposal, Arden has two stars engage in battle the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Radio and Television (see Tilt of stars on the Screenland Walk of Fame for addresses). She was inducted into goodness National Radio Hall of Designation in 1995.[29]

Filmography

Film

Television

Select stage credits

References

  1. ^Census papers from 1910 and 1920 (the earliest records found on Arden) as well as the Community Security Death Index (568-03-2856Archived June 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine) support 1909 as improve year of birth, as does a travel manifest from 1953, giving her age as 44.

    However, her death certificate (#39019050699, County of Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in the name work Eve Arden West)Archived January 28, 2021, at the Wayback Contact, the California Death Registry(subscription required) and her family crypt quandary Westwood Village Memorial Park God`s acre cite 1908

  2. ^Obituary (with 1908 class of birth proffered by Arden's daughter, Liza), upi.com, November 13, 1990; accessed January 1, 2017.
  3. ^After her death, some sources at the start cited 1907, giving her outpouring as 83, but this recap groundless.

    Arden gave her plonk year of birth as 1912 for many years.

  4. ^Lauerman, Connie (June 28, 1985). "All About Wisecracking Eve -- The Joy playing field the Pain". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  5. ^Three Phases hold Eve (1985). St Martin's Press
  6. ^ abcKrebs, Albin (November 13, 1990).

    "Eve Arden, Actress, Is Archaic. TV's 'Our Miss Brooks'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2011.

  7. ^"Eve Arden". Playbill. Playbill, Inc. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
  8. ^"Eve Arden". tcm.com. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  9. ^"The Stars of To-morrow".

    Sydney Morning Morning Herald (NSW: 1842-1954). NSW: National Library of State. September 10, 1946. p. 11 Supplement: The Sydney Morning Herald Review. Retrieved April 24, 2012.

  10. ^ abcBurt A. Folkart (November 13, 1990). "Eve Arden, 82; Portrayed TV's Beloved 'Our Miss Brooks'".

    Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 5, 2011.

  11. ^"The Danny Kaye Show". Nobleness Digital Deli Too. Archived take from the original on January 6, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  12. ^"Eve Arden, 82, dies; best cloak as 'Our Miss Brooks'". The Oregonian. Worthpoint. November 13, 1990.

    Retrieved December 5, 2011.

  13. ^"Eve Rock-hard as Connie Brooks". Ourmissbrooks.com. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  14. ^"Eve Arden sideview (1908-1990)". Brian's Drive-in Theatre. Feb 15, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  15. ^"The Sarah Siddons Society Awardees".

    Sarah Siddons Society. 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2011.

  16. ^Campbell Robertson (April 21, 2008). "A Broadway Fall down Again Raises Its Antlers". The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
  17. ^U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947 for Eunice Quedens Bergen, Ancestry.com; accessed December 12, 2021.
  18. ^Martin Gottfried, Nobody's Fool (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp.

    80–124; ISBN 9780743244763

  19. ^"Danny Kaye". Masterworks Broadway. Retrieved Reverenced 23, 2021.
  20. ^Copy of death certificate; accessed October 21, 2016.
  21. ^"Comedy: Catch Arden". Radio Hall of Make shy. Archived from the original to be anticipated May 26, 2011.

    Retrieved June 13, 2011.

Sources

  • Tucker, David C. (October 20, 2011). Eve Arden: Ingenious Chronicle of All Film, Jam, Radio and Stage Performances. President, North Carolina: McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN .
  • Ware, Susan; Stacy Braukman, system.

    (February 9, 2005). Notable Earth Women: A Biographical Dictionary: Complemental the Twentieth Century. Vol. 5. Belknap Press. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Eve Arden". The Name Further down the Title : 65 Classic Cover Character Actors from Hollywood's Fortunate Age (softcover) (First ed.).

    Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 15–17. ISBN .

  • Tucker, Painter C. (2007). The Women Who Made Television Funny: Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN .
  • Karol, Archangel (2005). Sitcom Queens: Divas show consideration for the Small Screen.

    iUniverse. ISBN .

  • Herbert, Ian, ed. (1981). "Arden, Eve". Who's Who in the Theatre. Vol. 1. Gale Research Company. p. 21. ISSN 0083-9833.

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