Known for:	Grease, Anatomy of a Murder, Mildred Pierce
Birth name:	Eunice Quedens
Birthday:	30 April 1908, Mill Valley, California, USA
Height:	5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, Section D, #81. Adopted her stage name while looking over some cosmetics and spotting the names "Evening in Paris" and "Elizabeth Arden". Often disguised her true age, but her tombstone was engraved by her family with the years "1908-1990", so she was 82 at her death. One natural child. 2 girls and one boy were adopted Eve Arden was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. Was ill with advanced colorectal cancer at the time of her death. Starred in several preview performances of one of Broadway's most notorious flops, "Moose Murders." Unable to memorize her lines, she was replaced in the role of Hedda Holloway by Holland Taylor. "Moose Murders" opened and closed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on February 22, 1983. In the film Anatomy of a Murder, her real-life husband, Brooks West, plays the local prosecutor who goes up against defense attorney James Stewart. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 22-24. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Her fourth child and second son, Douglas Brooks West, was born in September 1954, weighing 9 lbs., 4 oz.

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