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Jan 1, 2009 · August 18, 2021. "Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook" is an interesting exercise in writing a biography where very few first-person interview subjects are still living who could have described the subject for a modern audience. Worse, not many oral histories (taped interviews) were made before or at the time of her passing.
Birthday: Oct 20, 1899. Birthplace: Tampa, Florida, USA. Dark, alluring leading lady from 1916 who did a stint in British film before returning to Hollywood in 1922, gaining prominence in two ...
The rise and fall of Evelyn Brent is a true Hollywood story. Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in either Tampa, Florida or Syracuse, New York in either 1895 or 1899 or 1901, Betty, as she was always known to friends, shook off her drab beginnings and, starting in 1915, she began appearing in silent films made in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Aug 14, 2009 · For film historians and movie buffs alike, EVELYN BRENT - THE LIFE AND FILMS OF HOLLYWOOD’S LADY CROOK (McFarland & Co., 2009) by Lynn Kear and James King is a long-awaited answer to a prayer. Highly detailed and significantly researched, this book offers the serious reader a wonderful biography and history of Evelyn Brent, once one of ...
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Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs, October 20, 1895 – June 4, 1975) was an American film and stage actress. On November 3, 1928, Brent signed a contract with Paramount. It is likely that the contract brought certain pressures on Brent.
Introduction of Evelyn Brent as kept-woman Val, and Bradley Page as interloper Nick, joined by her lover Bill (Edmund Lowe), the cynical district attorney, who’s just been informed of her infidelity, Irving Cummings directing, in Columbia’s Attorney For The Defense, 1932.
Evelyn Brent , the Hollywood actress, who took lunch at Montmartre, or the Embassy Club, every day and always chose bacon and eggs for lunch. Hollywood film actress Evelyn Brent in her dressing room. Evelyn Brent , the American leading lady of the silent era.
