Eve Arden

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, and comedian. She performed in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades.

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Eve Arden was born on Friday, 30 April 1909 in Mill Valley,California. Her full name at birth was Eunice Quedens. She was best known as an actress. Arden's country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Monday, 12 November 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81. She is buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Her religion is listed as Roman Catholic. She was 5' 7½" (171 cm) tall with a slim build. She had blue eyes and dark brown hair (color). Her zodiac star sign was Taurus.

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Eunice Quedens
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Our Miss Brooks
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30 April 1909
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Mill Valley,California
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12 November 1990
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Los Angeles, California
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Heart Failure
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Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
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I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark.
  • Eve Arden was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
  • In the film Anatomy of a Murder (1959), her real-life husband, Brooks West, plays the local prosecutor who goes up against defense attorney James Stewart.
  • Starred in several preview performances of one of Broadway's most notorious flops, "Moose Murders." Unable to memorize her lines, she was replaced in the role of Hedda Holloway by Holland Taylor. "Moose Murders" opened and closed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on February 22, 1983.
  • Was ill with advanced colorectal cancer at the time of her death.
  • Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 26-27. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

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