Eve Arden Overview

Nobody could deliver a sarcastic line better than Eve Arden. Even Groucho Marx withered under her knowing sneer. Her tart-tongue firmly entrenched her as the ultimate wise-cracking secretary/chorus girl/gal pal in dozens of films in the '30's and '40's, mostly in hokum like She Couldn't Say No and Forgotten Woman (Eve was the one audiences remembered). The highlight of her early career came when she was cast as Joan Crawford's acidic friend Ida in Mildred Pierce. (Speaking of... See All