By David C. Tucker
The awesome profession of yank actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is punctiliously chronicled from her earliest degree paintings in 1926 (under her given identify Eunice Quedens) to her ultimate tv function in a 1987 episode of Falcon Crest. incorporated are designated descriptions and significant commentaries of the actress's sixty two function movie appearances among 1929 and 1982, particularly her Oscar-nominated functionality as Joan Crawford's sardonic confidante in 1945's Mildred Pierce. entire assurance is equipped of Eve Arden's paintings within the renowned radio and tv sequence Our omit Brooks, and her later costarring stint with Kaye Ballard within the two-season television sitcom The Mothers-in-Law. additionally indexed are her many different radio and tv appearances, in addition to her theatrical roles in such Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and let's accept It.
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Though rumor had it that the movie would resolve the long-standing standoff between Miss Brooks and matrimony, Eve wasn’t telling. ” With ratings on the decline, Our Miss Brooks underwent a drastic overhaul at the beginning of its fourth video season. The show’s 100th aired episode on television was its last to feature the original cast in the established format. The characters of Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin, as played by Richard Crenna and Gloria McMillan, were dropped completely. The show’s time slot shifted slightly, being aired an hour earlier on the Friday night schedule.
Some expected sparks between the two women offstage as well as on. “At first, they eyed each other like a couple of stray dogs,” said an anonymous observer in a TV Guide profile of Eve. “There might have even been a few hackles up. ” In “People Appreciate Comedy,” an article that appeared under Eve’s byline during the summer of 1968, the star said, “I have loved working with Kaye Ballard. She’s sort of a big pixie, always full of fun and always ‘up’ when it’s time to go on. And while we each play a mother-in-law, we are two different people.
In perhaps the show’s most shocking change, Mr. Boynton was written out of the series, as Robert Rockwell’s character was said to have taken a job out of town. In the new format, Connie’s love interest was initially the brash new gym instructor Clint Allbright, played by William Ching, but he soon gave way to actor Gene Barry, as the more likable Gene Talbot. The fourth-season episodes of Our Miss Brooks made it all too apparent that the show was having trouble settling into a winning pattern. Another cast change was necessitated by the death on December 24, 1955, of character actress Nana Bryant, who originated the role of Mrs.