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Under the Rainbow

as The Duchess

1981
The Dream Merchants

as Coralee

1980
A Guide for the Married Woman

as Employment Lady

1978
In Name Only

as Aunt Theda Reeson

1969
Anatomy of a Murder

as Maida Rutledge

1959
Our Miss Brooks

as Connie Brooks

1952
We're Not Married!

as Katie Woodruff

1952
Three Husbands

as Lucille McCabe

1950
Goodbye, My Fancy

as Miss 'Woody' Woods

1951
Tea for Two

as Pauline Hastings

1950
My Dream Is Yours

as Vivian Martin

1949
The Lady Takes a Sailor

as Susan Wayne

1949
One Touch of Venus

as Molly Stewart

1948
The Arnelo Affair

as Vivian Delwyn

1947
The Unfaithful

as Paula

1947
The Voice of the Turtle

as Olive Lashbrooke

1947
Night and Day

as Gabrielle

1946
The Kid from Brooklyn

as Ann Westly

1946
My Reputation

as Ginna Abbott

1946
Mildred Pierce

as Ida Corwin

1945
Earl Carroll Vanities

as Tex Donnelly

1945
Pan-Americana

as Helen 'Hoppy' Hopkins

1945
Cover Girl

as Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson

1944
The Doughgirls

as Sgt. Natalia Moskoroff

1944
Obliging Young Lady

as 'Space' OShea, aka Suwanee Rivers

1942
Manpower

as Dolly

1941
That Uncertain Feeling

as Sally Aikens

1941
Bedtime Story

as Virginia Cole

1941
Eve Arden Eve Arden

Birthday

1908-04-30

Place of Birth

Mill Valley, California, U.S.

Biography

Eve was 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. Date of Death 12 November 1990 , Los Angeles, California  (cardiac arrest due to arteriosclerotic heart disease)
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