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Eve Arden

Eve Arden

Actor · 1908 – 1990 · Mill Valley, California, USA

Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens; April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, stage and television actress. Born just north of San Francisco in Mill Valley and was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to joined a stock company. After appearing in minor roles in two films under her real name, Eunice Quedens, she found that the stage offered her the same minor roles. By the mid 30s, one of these minor roles would attract notice as a comedy sketch in the stage play "Ziegfeld Folies". By that time, she had changed her name to Eve Arden. In 1937, she attracted some attention with a small role in Oh, Doctor (1937) which led to her being cast in a minor role in the film Stage Door (1937). By the time the film was finished, her part had expanded into the wise-cracking, fast-talking friend to the lead. She would play virtually the character for most of her career. While her sophisticated wise-cracking would never make her the lead, she would be a busy actress in dozens of movies over the next dozen years. In At the Circus (1939), she was the acrobatic Peerless Pauline opposite Groucho Marx and the Russian sharp shooter in the comedy The Doughgirls (1944). For her role as Ida in Mildred Pierce (1945), she received an Academy Award nomination. Famous for her quick ripostes, this led to work in Radio during the 40s. In 1948, CBS Radio premiered "Our Miss Brooks", which would be the perfect show for her character. As her film career began to slow, CBS would take the popular radio show to television in 1952. The television series Our Miss Brooks (1952) would run through 1956 and led to he movie Our Miss Brooks (1956). When the show ended, she tried another television series, The Eve Arden Show (1957), but it was soon canceled. In the 60s, Eve raised a family and did a few guest roles, until her come-back television series The Mothers-In-Law (1967). This show, co-starring Kaye Ballard ran for two seasons. After that, she would make more unsold pilots, a couple of television movies and a few guest shots. She returned in occasional cameo appearances including the Principal McGee in Grease (1978), and Warden June in Pandemonium (1982), showing that she still had the wise-cracks and screen presence to bring back the fond memories of Miss Connie Brooks.

Movies24

  • Movie7.4

    Grease

    1978 · 7.8K votes

  • Movie7.8

    Anatomy of a Murder

    1959 · 1.2K votes

  • Movie5.3

    Grease 2

    1982 · 759 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie7.6

    Mildred Pierce

    1945 · 464 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Ziegfeld Girl

    1941 · 39 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Cover Girl

    1944 · 99 votes

  • Movie6.4

    At the Circus

    1939 · 99 votes

  • Movie5.9

    We're Not Married!

    1952 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Night and Day

    1946 · 38 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie7.1

    Stage Door

    1937 · 143 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.5

    My Dream Is Yours

    1949 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.7

    One Touch of Venus

    1948 · 37 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Under the Rainbow

    1981 · 44 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Whistling in the Dark

    1941 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Manpower

    1941 · 19 votes

  • Movie2.0
  • Movie6.6

    That Uncertain Feeling

    1941 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    1946 · 14 votes

  • Movie7.3

    My Reputation

    1946 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Tea for Two

    1950 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Voice of the Turtle

    1947 · 11 votes

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV5.5

    Falcon Crest

    1981 · 64 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bewitched

    1964 · 764 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Red Skelton Show

    1951 · 19 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.0

    Alice

    1976 · 63 votes

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV7.9

    I Love Lucy

    1951 · 264 votes

  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.5

    Amazing Stories

    1985 · 237 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV6.5
  • TV6.8