
Eve Arden
Born April 30, 1908 · 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.
Movies

Grease

Anatomy of a Murder

Grease 2

Mildred Pierce

The Strongest Man in the World

Ziegfeld Girl

We're Not Married!

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

Night and Day

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

My Dream Is Yours

Cover Girl

At the Circus

Stage Door

A Child is Born

Whistling in the Dark

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

The Unfaithful

One Touch of Venus

The Voice of the Turtle

All My Darling Daughters

The Kid from Brooklyn

A Guide for the Married Woman

My Reputation

Under the Rainbow

Last of the Duanes

Dancing Lady

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Women in the Wind

The Lady Takes a Sailor

The Lady Wants Mink

Let's Face It

She Knew All the Answers

That Uncertain Feeling

The Costume Designer
TV Shows

Love, American Style

The Merv Griffin Show

Great Performances

What's My Line?

Tony Awards

Bewitched

The Red Skelton Show

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

My Three Sons

Hart to Hart

Alice

Dinah!

I Love Lucy

Amazing Stories

Run for Your Life

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Vega$

Faerie Tale Theatre

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Laredo

Ellery Queen

Startime

Checkmate

B. J. and the Bear

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Mothers-in-Law

Flying High

Masquerade

The Pet Set

The Danny Thomas Hour

Our Miss Brooks

The Dream Merchants
More Movies

Blow-Ups of 1946

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Pandemonium

Letter of Introduction

In Name Only

Tea for Two

A Very Missing Person

Paid in Full

Whiplash

Obliging Young Lady

Our Miss Brooks

Comrade X

Manpower

The Doughgirls

Sing for Your Supper

Sergeant Deadhead

Goodbye, My Fancy

Cinderella

She Couldn't Say No

Cocoanut Grove

Hit Parade of 1943

The Arnelo Affair

Alice in Wonderland

Earl Carroll Vanities

Patrick the Great

Eternally Yours

No, No, Nanette

The Forgotten Woman

Three Husbands

Song of Love

The Grease Story

Slightly Honorable

Oh, Doctor

Bedtime Story

Having Wonderful Time

Song of Scheherazade

Pan-Americana

Big Town Czar




