Eve Arden

EVE ARDEN

April 30, 1908, Mill Valley, California - November 12, 1990, Los Angeles, USA.

American actress, Emmy Award winner, and Oscar nominee in 1945.

Her active film career began in 1937, after her role as Eve in the film Door to Stage. This role was quite successful, after which she was offered new film roles. In the following years she starred in such popular films as The Ziegfield Girls (1941) and Cover Girl (1941), starring Rita Hayworth. In 1945, Arden played one of her most famous roles, Ida Corwin in Mildred Pierce, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Eve also had a successful career in radio, where she was a performer as schoolteacher Connie Brooks in the radio show Our Miss Brooks from 1948 to 1957. Then, from 1952 to 1956, she played the same role in a television series, for which she won an Emmy Award, and in the film version in 1956. This character of hers was so popular that in 1952 Eve became an honorary member of the American Education Association.

Arden did a lot of television work as well. She had roles in the television series The Witch, Great Performances, Alice, and The Love Boat. At the same time, she continued to act on the theatrical stage as well, starring in productions of "Hello, Dolly!" and "Auntie Mame," and in 1967 she was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theaters.