Celebrity Name : Eve Arden

Celebrity Real Name : Eunice Quedens

Date of Birth : April 30, 1908

Biography of Eunice Quedens :
Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an Academy Award-nominated American actress who established a lengthy career as a supporting and character actor.

Early life and career :
Arden was born Eunice Quedens in Mill Valley, California to Lucille and Charles Peter Quedens. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Arden was an insecure child, declaring later in life that she needed therapy because her mother was so much more beautiful than she was.
At 16, Arden left Tamalpais High School and joined a stock theater company. She appeared in a few minor film roles under her real name. Her Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in the stage play Ziegfeld Follies.

Personal life and death :
She was married to Ned Bergen from 1939 to 1947, and to actor Brooks West from 1952 until his death in 1984 from a heart ailment. She and West had four children, three of whom were adopted.
Arden died of advanced colorectal cancer and heart disease at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

Trivia :
* Legend has it that Arden selected her stage name after seeing the phrases “Evening in Paris” and “Elizabeth Arden” at a cosmetics counter.
* Arden was in the cast of one of the most notable Broadway flops, the 1983 play Moose Murders. Arden, who was 75 at the time of production, had difficulties with remembering her lines in the play and was eventually replaced by actress Holland Taylor. The show opened and closed in the same evening.[wikipedia]