Profile
Eve Arden
Actress
Female
Born
Apr 30, 1908
Hometown
Mill Valley, Cali...
Died
Nov 12, 1990
Death Place
Los Angeles, Cali...
Other Names
Quedens, Eunice M.
Eve Arden was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss… Read More
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Brooks WestMarried 1952 - 1984
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1908
Birth
Born on April 30, 1908.
TWENTIES
1934
26 Years Old
Arden's Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in that year's Ziegfeld Follies revue.
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1937
29 Years Old
Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.
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THIRTIES
1939
31 Years Old
Arden was married to Ned Bergen from 1939 to 1947, and to actor Brooks West from 1952 until his death in 1984 from a heart ailment.
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In 1946 exhibitors voted her the sixth-most promising "star of tomorrow".
FORTIES
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.
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1949
41 Years Old
But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
1955
47 Years Old
Arden had a very brief guest role in a 1955 I Love Lucy episode entitled "L.A. at Last" in which she played herself.
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1957
49 Years Old
Arden tried another series in the fall of 1957, The Eve Arden Show, but it was canceled in spring of 1958 after only a few episodes.
FIFTIES
1966
58 Years Old
Arden played Nurse Kelton in the episode of "Bewitched" where Tabitha was born and the first episode with Serena in 1966.
She later co-starred with Kaye Ballard as her neighbor and in-law, Eve Hubbard, in the 1967–69 situation comedy The Mothers-in-Law, which was produced by Desi Arnaz after the dissolution of Desilu.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1978
70 Years Old
She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.
In 1985, she appeared as the wicked stepmother in the Faerie Tale Theatre production of Cinderella.
1990
83 Years Old
Died on November 12, 1990.
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