Eve Arden

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-04-30 (82 years old)

Deathday

1990-11-12

Place of Birth

Mill Valley, California, USA

Eve Arden

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1959

Anatomy of a Murder

as Maida Rutledge

1978

Grease

as Principal McGee

1985

1945

Mildred Pierce

as Ida Corwin

1944

Cover Girl

as Cornelia 'Stonewall' Jackson

1941

Manpower

as Dolly

1952

We're Not Married!

as Katie Woodruff

1949

My Dream Is Yours

as Vivian Martin

1939

At the Circus

as Peerless Pauline

1940

Comrade X

as Jane Wilson

1982

Grease 2

as Principal McGee

1950

Tea for Two

as Pauline Hastings

1947

The Arnelo Affair

as Vivian Delwyn

1948

One Touch of Venus

as Molly Stewart

1946

Night and Day

as Gabrielle

1941

That Uncertain Feeling

as Sally Aikens

1933

Dancing Lady

as Marcia (uncredited)

1937

Stage Door

as Ève

1950

Paid in Full

as Tommy Thompson

1938

1981

Under the Rainbow

as The Duchess

1941

Bedtime Story

as Virginia Cole

1965

Sergeant Deadhead

as Lieutenant Kinsey

1947

1941

Whistling in the Dark

as 'Buzz' Baker

1948

Whiplash

as Chris Sherwood

1939

1956

Our Miss Brooks

as Miss Constance 'Connie' Brooks

1941

San Antonio Rose

as Gabby Trent

1944

The Doughgirls

as Sgt. Natalia Moskoroff

1950

Three Husbands

as Lucille McCabe

1938

1946

My Reputation

as Ginna Abbott

1946

1939

Slightly Honorable

as Miss Ater

1949

1951

Goodbye, My Fancy

as Miss 'Woody' Woods

1942

Obliging Young Lady

as 'Space' OShea, aka Suwanee Rivers

1947

The Voice of the Turtle

as Olive Lashbrooke

1945

Patrick the Great

as Jean Matthews

1939

Women in the Wind

as Kit Campbell

1940

She Couldn't Say No

as Alice Hinsdale

1969

In Name Only

as Aunt Theda Reeson

1938

Cocoanut Grove

as Sophie De Lemma

1945

Earl Carroll Vanities

as Tex Donnelly

1945

Pan-Americana

as Helen 'Hoppy' Hopkins

1953

The Lady Wants Mink

as Gladys Jones

1947

Song of Scheherazade

as Madame de Talavera

1983

Alice in Wonderland

as Queen of Hearts

1939

A Child Is Born

as Miss Pinty

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Patsy Dixon

1943

Hit Parade of 1943

as Belinda Wright

1941

1937

Oh, Doctor

as Shirley Truman

1940

1943

Let's Face It

as Maggie Watson

1985

Cinderella

as Stepmother

1939

Big Town Czar

as Susan Warren

1978

2017

The Grease Story

as Principal McGee (archive footage)

1946

1972

All My Darling Daughters

as Miss Freeling, the Wedding Counselor

1972

A Very Missing Person

as Hildegarde Withers

1950

The Costume Designer

as Self (archive footage)

1941

Sing for Your Supper

as Barbara Stevens

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Maida Rutledge (archive footage) (uncredited)

1939

The Forgotten Woman

as Carrie Ashburn

1982

Pandemonium

as Warden June

1985

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