Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in Mill Valley, California. She made her film debut under her real name in the backstage musical Song of Love. Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford’s wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce.
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Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in Mill Valley, California. She made her film debut under her real name in the backstage musical Song of Love. Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford’s wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce. Arden became familiar to a new generation of filmgoers when she played Principal McGee in Grease and Grease 2. She was a regular on Danny Kaye’s short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor Lionel Kaye. She portrayed the English teacher Connie Brooks on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a film in 1956. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Milded Pierce.
She won the first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for the role of Our Miss Brooks in 1957. She also played the school principal in the musicals Grease andGrease 2. She was an honorary member of the National Association of Education Association, where she received the National Education Association’s highest honor, the National Academy of Education Award for Lifetime Achievement. She died of cancer on December 17, 2013, in Los Angeles. She is survived by her husband, John Arden, and two daughters. She had a son, John, and a daughter, Lucille Frank, with whom she was married for more than 40 years. She has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who is still living in New York City. Her great-great-granddaughter is the actress and singer-songwriter Jennifer Arden.
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