Английская Википедия:Eve Arden
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Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, stage and television actress. She performed in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades.
Beginning her film career in 1929 and on Broadway in the early 1930s, Arden's first major role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed by roles in the comedies Having Wonderful Time (1938) and At the Circus (1939). She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mildred Pierce (1945).
Somewhat surprisingly for an actress of Arden's refinement and wit, she appeared to good effect in a number of films noir, some exceptionally high-profile, including Mildred Pierce, The Unfaithful (1947), The Arnelo Affair (1947), Whiplash (1948), and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
Later in her career, Arden moved to television, playing a sardonic but engaging high school teacher in Our Miss Brooks, for which she won the first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also played the school principal in the film musicals Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982).
Early life
Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in Mill Valley, California,[1][2][3] to Charles Peter Quedens, the son of Charles Henry Augustus Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks, and Lucille Frank, the daughter of Bernard Frank and Louisa Mertens. Lucille, a milliner, divorced Charles over his gambling and went into business for herself.[4]
Although not Catholic, young Eunice was sent to a Dominican convent school in San Rafael, California. She then attended Tamalpais High School, a public high school in Mill Valley, until age 16. After leaving school, she joined the stock theater company of Henry "Terry" Duffy.[5]
Career
Film
She made her film debut under her real name in the backstage musical Song of Love (1929), as a wisecracking, homewrecking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.Шаблон:Sfn The film was one of Columbia Pictures' earliest successes. In 1933, she relocated to New York City, where she had supporting parts in several Broadway stage productions.Шаблон:Sfn In 1934, she was cast in the Ziegfeld Follies revue, the first role where she was credited as Eve Arden. When she was told to adopt a stage name for the show, Arden looked at her cosmetics and "stole my first name from Evening in Paris, and the second from Elizabeth Arden".[6] Between 1934 and 1941, she appeared in Broadway productions of Parade, Very Warm for May, Two for the Show, and Let's Face It!.[7]
Arden's film career began in earnest in 1937 when she signed a contract with RKO Radio PicturesШаблон:Sfn and appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door. Her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, witty supporting character gained Arden considerable notice and was a template for many of Arden's future roles.[6][8]
In 1938, she played a supporting part in the comedy Having Wonderful Time, starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.Шаблон:Sfn This was followed by roles in the crime film The Forgotten Woman (1939),Шаблон:Sfn and the Marx Brothers comedy At the Circus (1939), a role that required her to perform acrobatics.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1940, she appeared in support of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr in Comrade X, followed by support in the drama Manpower (1941) opposite Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.Шаблон:Sfn She also had a supporting part in the Red Skelton comedy Whistling in the Dark (1941)Шаблон:Sfn and the romantic comedy Obliging Young Lady (1942).Шаблон:Sfn
Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress; as a catty cousin turned peacemaker in The Unfaithful (1947); and as James Stewart's wistful but wry secretary in Otto Preminger's mystery Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (which also featured her husband, Brooks West). In 1946, exhibitors voted her the sixth-most promising "star of tomorrow".[9]
Arden became familiar to a new generation of filmgoers when she played Principal McGee in Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982). Arden was known for her deadpan comedic delivery.[10]
Radio and television
Arden's ability with witty scripts made her a natural talent for radio. She was a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.[11]
The additional exposure of Arden's comic talent on Kaye's show led to her best-known role, that of Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks. Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 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 crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton (played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler; and later on radio and TV by Robert Rockwell). Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna (Walter Denton), Robert Rockwell (Mr. Philip Boynton), Gloria McMillan (Harriet Conklin) and Jane Morgan (landlady Margaret Davis) played the same roles on TV.[12]
Arden's portrayal of Miss Brooks was so popular that she was made an honorary member of the National Education Association, received a 1952 award from the Teachers College of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher", and even received teaching job offers.[10] Her well-established wisecracking, deadpan character ultimately became her public persona as a comedienne.[10]
She won a listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top-ranking comedienne of 1948–1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. "I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this (award) two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton," she joked. She was also a hit with the critics: A winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.[13]
Arden had a very brief guest appearance in a 1955 I Love Lucy episode titled "L.A. at Last", where she played herself. While awaiting their food at the Brown Derby, Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) argue over whether a certain portrait on a nearby wall is Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday. Lucy urges Ethel to ask a lady occupying the next booth, who turns and replies, "Neither. That's Eve Arden." As Ethel realizes she just spoke to Arden herself, Arden passes Lucy and Ethel's table to leave the restaurant while the pair gawk.[12]
Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Desi Arnaz and Ball during their marriage, was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, filmed during the same years as I Love Lucy. Ball and Arden met when they costarred in the film Stage Door in 1937. Ball, according to numerous radio historians, suggested Arden for Our Miss Brooks after Shirley Booth auditioned for but failed to land the role and Ball—committed at the time to My Favorite Husband—could not.[14]
Arden tried another series for CBS in the fall of 1957, The Eve Arden Show, but it was canceled in spring of 1958 after 26 episodes. In 1966, she played Nurse Kelton in an episode of Bewitched. She later costarred with Kaye Ballard as her neighbor and in-law, Eve Hubbard, in the 1967–1969 NBC situation comedy The Mothers-in-Law, produced by Arnaz after the dissolution of Desilu Productions.[15] In her later career, Arden made appearances on such television shows as Bewitched, Alice, Maude, Hart to Hart, and Falcon Crest. In 1985, she appeared as the wicked stepmother in the Faerie Tale Theatre production of Cinderella.[12]
Stage
Arden was one of many actresses to take on the title roles in Hello, Dolly! and Auntie Mame in the 1960s; in 1967, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theater.[16] In 1983, Arden was cast as the leading lady in what was to be her Broadway comeback, Moose Murders, but she withdrew and was replaced with the much younger Holland Taylor after one preview performance, citing "artistic differences". The show went on to open and close on the same night, becoming known a legendary flop in Broadway history.[17]
Personal life
Arden was married to Edward Grinnell "Ned" Bergen 1939–47[18] and reportedly had a long relationship with Danny Kaye through the 1940s (likely starting from their Broadway work on Let's Face It! in 1941).[19][20] Arden was married to actor Brooks West from 1952 until his death in 1984 from a brain hemorrhage at age 67. She adopted her first child with Bergen and a second child as a single mother after her divorce from him; she adopted her third child with West and gave birth to her youngest (with West) at age 46 in 1954. All four children survived their parents.[6]
Death
On November 12, 1990, Arden died at home at age 82. According to her death certificate, she died of cardiac arrest and arteriosclerotic heart disease.[21] She is buried in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, California.Шаблон:Citation needed
Legacy
Arden published an autobiography, The Three Phases of Eve, in 1985. In addition to her Academy Award nomination, Arden has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Radio and Television (see List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for addresses). She was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.[22]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Song of Love | Maisie LeRoy | |
| 1933 | Dancing Lady | Marcia | Uncredited |
| 1937 | Oh, Doctor | Shirley Truman | |
| 1937 | Stage Door | Eve | |
| 1938 | Cocoanut Grove | Sophie De Lemma | |
| 1938 | Having Wonderful Time | Henrietta | |
| 1938 | Letter of Introduction | Cora Phelps | |
| 1939 | Women in the Wind | Kit Campbell | |
| 1939 | Big Town Czar | Susan Warren | |
| 1939 | The Forgotten Woman | Carrie Ashburn | |
| 1939 | Eternally Yours | Gloria | |
| 1939 | At the Circus | Peerless Pauline | |
| 1939 | Шаблон:Sortname | Miss Pinty | |
| 1939 | Slightly Honorable | Miss Ater | |
| 1940 | She Couldn't Say No | Alice Hinsdale | |
| 1940 | Comrade X | Jane Wilson | |
| 1940 | No, No, Nanette | Kitty | |
| 1941 | That Uncertain Feeling | Sally Aikens | |
| 1941 | Ziegfeld Girl | Patsy Dixon | |
| 1941 | She Knew All the Answers | Sally Long | |
| 1941 | San Antonio Rose | Gabby Trent | |
| 1941 | Whistling in the Dark | 'Buzz' Baker | |
| 1941 | Manpower | Dolly | |
| 1941 | Last of the Duanes | Kate | |
| 1941 | Sing for Your Supper | Barbara Stevens | |
| 1941 | Bedtime Story | Virginia Cole | |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | 'Space' O'Shea - AKA Suwanee Rivers | |
| 1943 | Hit Parade of 1943 | Belinda Wright | Alternative title: Change of Heart |
| 1943 | Let's Face It | Maggie Watson | |
| 1944 | Cover Girl | Cornelia Jackson | |
| 1944 | Шаблон:Sortname | Sgt. Natalia Moskoroff | |
| 1945 | Pan-Americana | Helen 'Hoppy' Hopkins | |
| 1945 | Earl Carroll Vanities | 'Tex' Donnelly | |
| 1945 | Patrick the Great | Jean Matthews | |
| 1945 | Mildred Pierce | Ida Corwin | |
| 1946 | My Reputation | Ginna Abbott | |
| 1946 | Шаблон:Sortname | Ann Westley | |
| 1946 | Night and Day | Gabrielle | |
| 1947 | Шаблон:Sortname | Paula | |
| 1947 | Шаблон:Sortname | Vivian Delwyn | |
| 1947 | Song of Scheherazade | Madame de Talavera | |
| 1947 | Шаблон:Sortname | Olive Lashbrooke | |
| 1948 | One Touch of Venus | Molly Stewart | |
| 1948 | Whiplash | Chris Sherwood | |
| 1949 | My Dream Is Yours | Vivian Martin | |
| 1949 | Шаблон:Sortname | Susan Wayne | |
| 1950 | Paid in Full | Tommy Thompson | |
| 1950 | Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Lily Martin | |
| 1950 | Tea for Two | Pauline Hastings | |
| 1950 | Three Husbands | Lucille McCabe | |
| 1951 | Goodbye, My Fancy | Miss 'Woody' Woods | |
| 1951 | Two Tickets to Broadway | Showgirl | |
| 1952 | We're Not Married! | Katie Woodruff | |
| 1953 | Шаблон:Sortname | Gladys Jones | |
| 1956 | Our Miss Brooks | Connie Brooks | |
| 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | Maida Rutledge | |
| 1960 | Шаблон:Sortname | Lottie Lacey | |
| 1965 | Sergeant Deadhead | Lt. Charlotte Kinsey | |
| 1975 | Шаблон:Sortname | Harriet Crumply | |
| 1978 | Grease | Principal McGee | |
| 1981 | Under the Rainbow | The Duchess | |
| 1982 | Pandemonium | Warden June | |
| 1982 | Grease 2 | Principal McGee | (final film appearance) |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Starlight Theatre | Julie Todd | "Julie" |
| 1952–1956 | Our Miss Brooks | Connie Brooks | Main role (130 episodes) |
| 1955 | I Love Lucy | Herself (cameo) | "Hollywood at Last" |
| 1957–1958 | Шаблон:Sortname | Liza Hammond | Main role (26 episodes) |
| 1959–1967 | Шаблон:Sortname | Clara Appleby | Recurring role (6 episodes) |
| 1961 | Checkmate | Georgia Golden | "Death by Design" |
| 1962 | My Three Sons | Marisa Montaine | "A Holiday for Tramp" |
| 1964 | Vacation Playhouse | Claudia Cooper | "He's All Yours" |
| 1965 | Laredo | Emma Bristow | "Which Way Did They Go?" |
| 1966 | Bewitched | Nurse Kelton | "And Then There Were Three" |
| 1966 | Run for Your Life | Mame Huston | "Who's Watching the Fleshpot?" |
| 1966 | Шаблон:Sortname | Prof. Lillian Stemmler | "The Minus-X Affair" |
| 1967 | Шаблон:Sortname | Thelda Cunningham | "The Royal Follies of 1933" |
| 1967–1969 | Шаблон:Sortname | Eve Hubbard | Main role (56 episodes) |
| 1969 | In Name Only | Aunt Theda Reeson | TV film |
| 1972 | Шаблон:Sortname | Hildegarde Withers | TV film |
| 1972 | All My Darling Daughters | Miss Freeling | TV film |
| 1974 | Шаблон:Sortname | Mrs. Owens | "Mother of the Bride" |
| 1974 | Шаблон:Sortname | Aunt Fran | "The Greening of Aunt Fran" |
| 1974 | Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Dr. Lucille Barras | "Subject: The Sterilization of Judy Simpson" |
| 1975 | Harry and Maggie | Maggie Sturdivant | TV pilot |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen | Vera Bethune / Miss Aggie | "The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance" |
| 1977 | Maude | Lola Ashburn | "Maude's Aunt" |
| 1978 | Шаблон:Sortname | Employment lady | TV film |
| 1978 | Flying High | Clarissa 'Wedgie' Wedge | "It Was Just One of Those Days" |
| 1979 | Vega$ | Sarah Bancroft | "Design for Death" |
| 1980 | Шаблон:Sortname | Coralee | TV miniseries |
| 1980 | Alice | Martha MacIntire | "Alice in TV Land" |
| 1980 | Шаблон:Sortname | Ms. Brenda Watts | "The Affair: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 1980 | B. J. and the Bear | Mrs. Jarvis | "The Girls of Hollywood High" |
| 1980 | Hart to Hart | Sophie Green | "Does She or Doesn't She?" |
| 1981 | Nuts and Bolts | Martha Fenton | TV film |
| 1983 | Great Performances | Queen of Hearts | "Alice in Wonderland" |
| 1983 | Masquerade | Mrs. Woodman | "Diamonds" |
| 1985 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Stepmother | "Cinderella" |
| 1986 | Amazing Stories | Jane's Mother | "Secret Cinema" |
| 1987 | Falcon Crest | Lillian Nash | "Manhunt" (final TV appearance) |
Select stage credits
- Private Lives (1933)
- On Approval (1933)
- Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (1934)
- Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (1936)
- Very Warm for May (1939)
- Two for the Show (1940)
- Let's Face It! (1941)
- Over 21 (1950)
- Auntie Mame (1958)
- Goodbye Charlie (1960)
- The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
- Hello, Dolly! (1966)
- Barefoot in the Park (1967)
- Cactus Flower (1968)
- Butterflies Are Free (1970)
- Applause (1975)
- Absurd Person Singular (1978)
- Little Me (1980)
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
- Official Website
- Шаблон:IMDb name
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- Шаблон:Find a Grave
- Шаблон:AllMovie name
- Eve Arden at Virtual History
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- ↑ Census records from 1910 and 1920 (the earliest records found on Arden) as well as the Social Security Death Index (568-03-2856 Шаблон:Webarchive) support 1909 as her 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 of Eve Arden West) Шаблон:Webarchive, the California Death RegistryШаблон:Subscription required and her family crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery cite 1908
- ↑ Obituary (with 1908 year of birth proffered by Arden's daughter, Liza), upi.com, November 13, 1990; accessed January 1, 2017.
- ↑ After her death, some sources initially cited 1907, giving her age as 83, but this is groundless. Arden gave her own year of birth as 1912 for many years.
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- ↑ Three Phases of Eve (1985). St Martin's Press
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- ↑ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947 for Eunice Quedens Bergen, Ancestry.com; accessed December 12, 2021.
- ↑ Martin Gottfried, Nobody's Fool (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 80–124; Шаблон:ISBN
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- ↑ Copy of death certificate; accessed October 21, 2016.
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