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Eve Arden (1908-1990) was an Oscar®-nominated American actress. She performed in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades. She is best remembered for her Oscar® nominated role in 1945’s Mildred Pierce and as the school principal in the musicals Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982). Her IMDb page shows over 101 acting credits from 1929 to 1987. This page will rank Eve Arden movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition. This page was from a request by Mike.
Eve Arden Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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Best IMDb Trivia On Eve Arden
1. Eunice Mary Quedens was born in Mill Valley, California in 1909.
2. In 1934, Eunice Quedens was cast in the Ziegfeld Follies revue, the first role where she was credited as Eve Arden. When she was told to adopt a stage name for the show, Arden looked at her cosmetics and “stole my first name from Evening in Paris, and the second from Elizabeth Arden”.
3. Eve Arden published an autobiography, The Three Phases of Eve, in 1985.
4. In the film Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Eve Arden’s real-life husband, Brooks West, plays the local prosecutor who goes up against defense attorney James Stewart.
5. Eve Arden was in three Oscar® Best Picture nominees: Stage Door (1937), Mildred Pierce (1945) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
Check out Eve Arden ‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
What no mention of The Mothers-in-law her 1967 TV series with Kaye Ballard and produced by Danny Thomas. I have that series (it was a gift). Watched season1 a few years ago but haven’t had it in me to get to season 2.
Eve was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the actors on the list she has appeared with (not that many).
109 DAVID NIVEN Eternally Yours (1939)
119 DEAN STOCKWELL The Arnelo Affair (1947)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS Cover Girl (1944)
175 BEN GAZZARA Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
182 BURGESS MEREDITH That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
188 MICHELLE PFEIFFER Grease 2 (1982)
203 KURT RUSSELL The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
232 ANGELA LANSBURY The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
242 AVA GARDNER One Touch of Venus (1948)
268 CAROL KANE Pandemonium (1982)
318 STOCKARD CHANNING Grease (1978)
331 CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD Grease 2 (1982)
344 MAKO Under the Rainbow (1981)
399 JOHN TRAVOLTA Grease (1978)
469 VINCENT PRICE Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
512 KEYE LUKE Comrade X (1940)
512 KEYE LUKE No, No, Nanette (1940)
537 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
591 JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT Song of Scheherazade (1947)
605 LIONEL STANDER The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Eternally Yours (1939)
613 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Slightly Honorable (1939)
633 CHEVY CHASE Under the Rainbow (1981)
643 SHIRLEY KNIGHT The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
718 MICHAEL BIEHN Grease (1978)
760 LEE MARVIN We’re Not Married! (1952)
784 CESAR ROMERO Sergeant Dead Head (1965)
784 CESAR ROMERO The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
805 CHARLES LANE Cocoanut Grove (1938)
805 CHARLES LANE Obliging Young Lady (1942)
812 GEORGE C. SCOTT Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
849 RICHARD CRENNA Our Miss Brooks (1956)
854 PAT O’BRIEN Slightly Honorable (1939)
909 JAMES STEWART Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
909 JAMES STEWART Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
970 YVONNE DE CARLO Let’s Face It (1943)
970 YVONNE DE CARLO Song of Scheherazade (1947)
HM (863) EDMOND O’BRIEN Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Eve appeared with 20 Oscar winners.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Eternally Yours (1939)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Slightly Honorable (1939)
CLARK GABLE Comrade X (1940)
CLARK GABLE Dancing Lady (1933)
DAVID NIVEN Eternally Yours (1939)
DEAN JAGGER Having Wonderful Time (1938)
DOROTHY MALONE Night and Day (1946)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Obliging Young Lady (1942)
FREDRIC MARCH Bedtime Story (1941)
GEORGE C. SCOTT Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
GINGER ROGERS Having Wonderful Time (1938)
GINGER ROGERS Stage Door (1937)
GINGER ROGERS We’re Not Married! (1952)
JAMES STEWART Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
JAMES STEWART Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
JANE DARWELL Three Husbands (1951)
JANE DARWELL We’re Not Married! (1952)
JANE WYMAN Night and Day (1946)
JANE WYMAN The Doughgirls (1944)
JANE WYMAN The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
JOAN CRAWFORD Dancing Lady (1933)
JOAN CRAWFORD Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
JOAN CRAWFORD Mildred Pierce (1945)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Stage Door (1937)
LEE MARVIN We’re Not Married! (1952)
LORETTA YOUNG Bedtime Story (1941)
LORETTA YOUNG Eternally Yours (1939)
MELVYN DOUGLAS That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
SHELLEY WINTERS Cover Girl (1944)
SUSAN HAYWARD Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
WALTER BRENNAN Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)
Hey Dan. Thanks for these impressive trivia lists on Eve Arden. Yep….no mention of her television show…The Mothers-in-law. Danny Thomas is a name/celebrity that I knew growing up, yet seems to have been lost as time has passed. I would guess with the massive amount of movies she made in the 1930s and 1940s….that Eve would have been on the Oracle list in the 1950s. Looking at the first list…no three peaters….but always good to see Kurt Russell pop up on a list. Looking at the second list….20 Oscar winning co-stars…slightly less than average….but some legends on the list. Good stuff as always.
I made a mistake, Desi Arnaz produced The Mothers in Law, not Danny Thomas, and he guest starred about 4 times the first season
Hey Dan. Thanks for the clarification. I could say the same thing about Desi as I did about Danny. Big names when I was younger, that do not get mentioned anymore today.
I have seen 23 Eve Arden movies, including 9 of the top 10, and 13 of the top 15.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Anatomy of a Murder.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is The Voice of the Turtle.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is No, No, Nanette.
Favourite Eve Arden Movies:
Mildred Pierce
Grease
Stage Door
Cover Girl
Ziegfeld Girl
My Reputation
Dancing Lady
Night and Day
Manpower
The Unfaithful
Tea For Two
The Kid From Brooklyn
Whiplash
Other Eve Arden Movies I Have Seen:
Anatomy of a Murder
Comrade X
My Dream is Yours
Slightly Honorable
That Uncertain Feeling
Goodbye, My Fancy
Letter of Introduction
Our Miss Brooks
One Touch of Venus
No, No, Nanette
Hey Flora…thanks for sharing your movie thoughts on Eve Arden….she was another of the subjects in Joel’s book. Tally count. 23 for you, 11 for me and 7 for bob cox and Steve. I was actually really surprised when my tally reached double figures. I have seen 6 of your favorites….with Mildred Pierce and Grease being in my Top 3 Arden movies. You and bob cox think pretty highly about Cary Grant’s Night and Day….though I am a huge fan on Grant, that one does nothing for me….so we will have to agree to disagree. Of the ones you have seen that I have not….Comrade X is the one I want to see the most. Good stuff as always.
I knew Eve Arden best from Grease, I can’t remember her in anything else (try Steve try)
Okay I’ve seen 7 of the 60 films on the chart, more than I thought. Favorites are – Grease, At the Circus and The Kid from Brooklyn. Others I have seen are – Cover Girl, Ziegfeld Girl, Dancing Lady and Anatomy of a Murder.
Let’s see… Stage Door is her highest rated and Night & Day her most successful pre-Grease movie. They might be worth checking out when they pop up on TV again.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Eve Arden with Groucho Marx –
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Hey Steve…..I like you best remember her from Grease. I thought my tally count was going to be 2….Grease and Mildred Pierce. I was wrong…as I reached double figures. Tally count: Flora 23, me 11 and you and bob cox sitting at 7. I would have guessed you would have mentioned At The Circus in your favorites list…the power of the Marx! As for Night and Day….Flora and bob cox…really enjoyed it….I did not. Cole Porter on the movie which is based on his life….”it should be good….especially since none of it is true.”. Thanks for the attached link….I almost used a picture of her in At The Circus. Good stuff as always.
1/Eve was a multi-medium personality and on top of her big screen career comprehensively covered by Bruce above, she performed on (1) radio – see also 4 below (2) television – in 37 productions between 1951 and 1987 (3) stage. Wikipedia lists 17 of her appearances between 1933 and 1980 and they include classics such as Auntie Mame, Hello Dolly and Ziegfeld Follies of both 1934 and 1936.
2/I remember her most from five cinematic movies: Anatomy of a Murder, The Dark at the top of The Stairs, Mildred Pierce, Grease and Our Miss Brooks [1956] which is of course based on her hit TV series of that name that ran for 130 episodes from 1952-1956
3/As the Master indicates, in the comments section here, is probably the case with many people the movie Our Miss Brooks is the one that I think of the very most when her name is mentioned, though I have never seen the TV show.
4/Our Miss Brooks starring Eve ran on radio too from 1948-57. In those radio productions from 1948 until 1953 one of Eve’s main leading men was Jeff Chandler, until as a large screen fifties matinee idol he became too ‘big’ for radio. Jeff [sometimes going under his birth name of Ira Grossel] played Philip Boynton a Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks’ affections.
5/Celebrity Net Worth quotes Eve’s net worth in today’s dollars as $11 million.
Hey Bob. As always…thanks for adding value to the page with your detailed comment that helps fill in the blanks of Eve Arden the person. Good information on her show Our Miss Brooks….a show that was huge in the 1950s…but I admit…I had never heard of it before writing this page. I did read about her successful radio career. She got two Hollywood stars….one for radio and the other for television. And now she has an UMR page to celebrate her movie career. $11 million in net worth…..pretty good for a high school principal (Grease reference). Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the feedback.
Responding to your Eve Arden page enabled me to get a plug in for my 1950s hero Jeff Chandler. He DOES have his own Cogerson page admittedly but doesn’t always get the credit in Cogerson co-star columns elsewhere that he deserves!!!
“Has no female fellow teacher ever gotten a crush on you in the way that Miss Brooks had on Chandler’s character on the radio, and on television and in the movie when he was played by Robert Rockwell?”
Anyway keep safe.
Hey Bob….I have fixed some of your Jeff Chandler co-star issues….maybe not all of them….but some of them. Happy to say no crushes going my way at school. Thanks for the return comment on our Eve Arden page.
“Eve Arden is one of the screen’s great comediennes, like Lucille Ball. Most people remember her today as “Our Miss Brooks”, but she has also made dozens of films, and some of them are classics. ….she had her finest performance as Joan Crawford’s friend in Mildred Pierce.”
Rating The Movie Stars 4 Star Performances (1983 book)
1940’s Comrade X
1942’s Bedtime Story
1944’s Cover Girl
1944’s The Doughgirls
1945’s Mildred Pierce
1947’s The Voice Of The Turtle
1949’s My Dream Is Yours
1950’s Tea For Two
1951’s Goodbye My Fancy
1960’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Always good to get Joel and his Consumer Reports buddies’ thoughts on the website.