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Wikipedia Summary for Eve Arden
Eve Arden (born Eunice Mary Quedens, April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American film, radio, stage, television actress, and comedian. She performed in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades.
Beginning her film career in 1929 and on Broadway in the early 1930s, Arden's first major role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed by roles in the comedies Having Wonderful Time (1938) and the Marx Brothers' At the Circus (1939). She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mildred Pierce (1945).
Later in her career, Arden played the sardonic but engaging high school teacher in the eponymous Our Miss Brooks, for which she won the first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also played the school principal in the musicals Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982).
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.
Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.
I've worked with a lot of great, glamorous girls in movies and the theater. They would always give their last ounce to get where they wanted to be.
You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.
I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.
If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'
I love making people laugh.
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.
In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too -- but about more important things.
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event -- and we make it an event.
I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.
None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.
I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
I'm finding writing very fascinating.
I can't seem to say, 'You great big wonderful man, you,' without hamming it up somehow.
The better the teacher, the better the future of America.
I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.
I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.
So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.
Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.
Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.
My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.