Eve Brent

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Eve Brent , also Jean Lewis (actually: Jean Ann Ewers ; born September 11, 1929 in Houston , Texas , † August 27, 2011 in Sun Valley , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Brent was born Jean Ann Ewers in the US state of Texas . Her mother was a founding member of the Houston Little Theater in Houston. Brent grew up in Fort Worth . At the age of 10 she made appearances on local radio broadcasts ; later she also had her own radio shows on local radio stations. In 1955 she was elected "Miss Texas".

She made her film debut in 1955, under the name Jean Lewis in the crime film Female Jungle ; under this name she continued to appear in some film and television roles until the end of the 1950s. At the urging of director Samuel Fuller , she changed her stage name to Eve Brent . Under this name, she played the role of Louvenia Spanger in Fuller's western Forty Rifles in 1957, alongside Gene Barry . She embodied the daughter of a gunsmith , whom the cowboy Wes Bonnell falls in love with.

In 1958 she got the role of Jane Parker for another film adaptation of the Tarzan fabric planned by Sol Lesser . Brent was reportedly chosen from over 3,000 applicants for the role; she was one of 19 actresses screened with, and eventually prevailed over competitor Jil Jarmyn . Brent then played the role of Jane on the side of Gordon Scott in the movie Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) and in the TV movie Tarzan and the Hunters (1958), the pilot of a planned Tarzan television series.

Brent was repeatedly seen in the course of her career in movies; she was now cast almost exclusively as a supporting actress, as a prostitute in Coogan's Big Bluff (1968), as a passenger Mrs. Corman in Airport (1970), as Elaine Connelly (Paul Edgecombes best friend in the Georgia Pines nursing home) in the literary film adaptation The Green Mile (1999) and as old woman ( Old Woman ) in the love story the curious case of Benjamin button (2008).

In the slasher film Fade to Black - The beautiful murders of Eric Binford (1980), she played the role of Eric's tyrannical aunt Stella, who becomes his first victim. For this role, Brent received the Saturn Award in 1980 in the "Best Supporting Actress" category.

She played episode roles and guest roles in numerous US television series since the 1950s, including in Im Wild West (1955), Highway Patrol (1957), Amos Burke (1964), Big Valley (1967), Police Report (1967–1969) , Dear Uncle Bill (1968), Emergency Call California (1974), The Boss (1974), Our Little Farm (1974; 1980), Under the California Sun (1981), Agent with a Heart (1984), California Clan (1985), An Angel on Earth (1985–1987), The Secret of Twin Peaks (1990), Who's Boss Here? (1991), California High School (1992), Roswell (2001; 2002), JAG - For Honor (2002), Scrubs - The Beginners (2006), and Community (2010).

Brent also performed theater in the 1950s and 1960s . She walked among others, the comedies The Impossible Years (with George Gobel ), The Fifth Season (1955, with Gene Raymond ) and The Marriage-Go-Round (with Robert Cummings as a partner) on tour , including in California.

Private

Brent was married a total of five times. At the age of 17 she married Captain Jack B. Lewis, an officer in the United States Air Force . From this marriage comes their son James (Jack) Lewis. In 1978 she married the fifth actor Michael Ashe , with whom she was married until his death on July 31, 2008; she has also appeared under the name Eve Brent Ashe since her marriage to Ashe. Brent died shortly before her 82nd birthday at Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, California; "natural reasons" were named as the cause of death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eve Brent Biographical data of Eve Brent in the Internet Movie Database : Born: Jean Ann Ewers, September 11, 1929 in Houston, Texas, USA
  2. ↑ a b c d Eve Brent, Prolific Character Actress, Dies at 82 Obituary in: The Hollywood Reporter. September 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Eve Brent. (Glamor Girls of the Silver Screen)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Eve Brent. Website Glamor Girls of the Silver Screen (biography)
personal data
SURNAME Brent, Eve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ewers, Jean Ann (maiden name); Lewis, Jean (stage name); Brent Ashe, Eve (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2011
Place of death Sun Valley , California , United States