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Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs;[1] October 20, 1895[2][3][4] – June 4, 1975[5]) was an American film and stage actress.

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Evelyn Brent
photographed in 1929 by Russell Ball
Born	Mary Elizabeth Riggs (1895-10-20)October 20, 1895 Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Died	June 4, 1975(1975-06-04) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Betty Riggs
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1915–1960
Spouse(s)	B. P. Fineman ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1927)​ Harry D. Edwards ​ ​ (m. 1928; div. 1947)​ Harry Fox ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1959)​

Early life

Brent was born in Tampa, Florida, and known as Betty. When she was age 10, her mother Eleanor (née. Warner) died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone.

She moved to New York City as a teenager, and her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in movies.

She originally studied to be a teacher. While attending a normal school in New York, she visited the World Film Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Two days later, she was working there as an extra, earning $3 per day.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She began her film career working under her own name at a New Jersey film studio, then made her major debut in the 1915 silent film production of the Robert W. Service poem The Shooting of Dan McGrew.

As Evelyn Brent, she continued to work in film, developing into a young woman with sultry looks. After World War I, she went to London for a vacation and met American playwright Oliver Cromwell, who urged her to accept an important role in The Ruined Lady. The production was presented on the London stage. She remained in England for four years, performing on stage and in films produced by British companies, then she moved to Hollywood in 1922.

Her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. signed her but failed to find a story for her; she left his company to join Associated Authors.

Brent made more than two dozen silent films, including three for director Josef von Sternberg. One of these was The Last Command (1928), an epic war drama featuring William Powell for which Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor. Brent played the film's leading lady.

Later that year, she starred opposite William Powell in her first sound movie. Brent played major roles in several features, most notably The Silver Horde and the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade (both 1930).

By the early part of the 1930s, she was working in secondary roles in a variety of films as well as touring with vaudeville shows. In 1936, she played William Boyd's love interest/femme fatale in Hopalong Cassidy Returns. However, by 1941, she was no longer in demand by major studios, and she found work at smaller, low-budget studios.

She photographed attractively opposite leading men who were also at advanced ages and later stages in their careers: Neil Hamilton in Producers Releasing Corporation's production Dangerous Lady, Lee Tracy in the same studio's The Payoff, and Jack Holt in the serial Holt of the Secret Service. In the early 1940s, she worked in action features for Paramount releases. Veteran director William Beaudine cast her in many productions as well, including Emergency Landing (1941), Bowery Champs (1944), The Golden Eye (1948), and Again Pioneers (1950). After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent.

She returned to acting in television's Wagon Train for one episode in 1960, "The Lita Foladaire Story", starring Ward Bond and Diane Brewster. Brent played a housekeeper and her appearance had changed radically by that juncture.

Personal life and death

Evelyn Brent was married three times: to movie executive Bernard P. Fineman, to producer Harry D. Edwards, and finally to the vaudeville actor Harry Fox. They were married until he died in 1959.[6]

Brent died of a heart attack in 1975[7] at age 79 in her Los Angeles home. She is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

In 1960, Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star for her contributions to the film industry. Her star is located at 6548 Hollywood Boulevard.[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1914	A Gentleman from Mississippi	Hope Langdon	Silent
1915	The Heart of a Painted Woman		Lost film;Silent
1915	The Shooting of Dan McGrew	Nell (adult)	Lost film;Silent
1915	When Love Laughs	Bessie	Short film; Lost film;Silent
1916	The Lure of Heart's Desire	Little Snowbird	Lost film; Silent
1916	The Iron Will		Uncredited; Short film; Lost film; Silent
1916	The Soul Market	Vivian Austin	Lost film; Silent
1916	Playing with Fire	Lucille Vane	Lost film; Silent
1916	The Spell of the Yukon	Dorothy Temple	Lost film; Silent
1916	The Weakness of Strength	Bessie Alden	Lost film; Silent
1916	The Iron Woman	Nannie Maitland	Lost film; Silent
1917	The Millionaire's Double	Constance Brent	Lost film; Silent
1917	To the Death	Rosa	Lost film; Silent
1917	Who's Your Neighbor?	Betty Hamlin	Lost film; Silent
1917	Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman	Ethel - Lord Amersteth's Daughter	Silent
1918	Daybreak	Det. Alma Peterson	Lost film; Silent
1919	Border River	Marie Dubuque	Short film; Silent
1919	Help! Help! Police!	Marian Trevor	Lost film; Silent
1919	Fool's Gold	Nancy Smith	Silent
1919	The Other Man's Wife	Becky Simon	Lost film;Silent
1919	The Glorious Lady	Lady Eileen	Silent
1920	The Shuttle of Life	Miriam Grey	Lost film; Silent
1920	The Law Divine	Daphne Grey	Lost film; Silent
1921	Demos	Emma Vine	Lost film; Silent
1921	The Door That Has No Key	Violet Melton	Lost film; Silent
1921	Sybil	Sybil Gerard	Lost film; Silent
1921	Sonia	Sonia Dainton	Lost film; Silent
1921	Laughter and Tears	Pierette	Silent
1922	Trapped by the Mormons	Nora Prescott	Silent
1922	The Spanish Jade	Mañuela	Lost film; Silent
1922	Married to a Mormon	Beryl Fane	Lost film; Silent
1922	The Experiment	Doris Fielding	Lost film; Silent
1922	Pages of Life	Mitzi / Dolores	Lost film; Silent
1923	Held to Answer	Bessie Burbeck	Lost film; Silent
1924	Loving Lies	Ellen Craig	Lost film; Silent
1924	The Shadow of the Desert	Lolaire	Lost film; Silent
1924	Arizona Express	Lola Nichols	Silent
1924	The Plunderer	The Lily	Lost film;Silent
1924	The Lone Chance	Margaret West	Lost film;Silent
1924	The Desert Outlaw	May Halloway	Silent
1924	The Cyclone Rider	Weeping Wanda	Silent
1924	The Dangerous Flirt	Sheila Fairfax	Lost film;Silent
1924	My Husband's Wives	Marie Wynn	Lost film;Silent
1924	Silk Stocking Sal	'Stormy' Martin	Lost film;Silent
1925	Midnight Molly	Margaret Warren / Midnight Molly	Silent
1925	Forbidden Cargo	Polly O'Day	Lost film;Silent
1925	Alias Mary Flynn	Mary Flynn	Lost film;Silent
1925	Smooth as Satin	Gertie Jones	Lost film;Silent
1925	Lady Robinhood	Señorita Catalina / La Ortiga	Lost film;Silent
1925	Three Wise Crooks	Molly	Lost film;Silent
1925	Broadway Lady	Rosalie Ryan	Silent
1926	Queen o'Diamonds	Jeanette Durant / Jerry Lyon	Lost film;Silent
1926	Secret Orders	Janet Graaham	Lost film;Silent
1926	The Impostor	Judith Gilbert	Lost film;Silent
1926	The Jade Cup	Peggy Allen	Lost film;Silent
1926	Flame of the Argentine	Inez Remírez	Lost film;Silent
1926	Love 'Em and Leave 'Em	Mame Walsh	Silent
1927	Love's Greatest Mistake	Jane	Lost film;Silent
1927	Blind Alleys	Sally Ray	Lost film;Silent
1927	Underworld	'Feathers' McCoy	Silent
1927	Women's Wares	Dolly Morton	Silent
1928	Beau Sabreur	Mary Vanbrugh	Lost film;Silent
1928	The Last Command	Natalie Dabrova	Silent
1928	The Showdown	Sibyl Shelton	Silent
1928	A Night of Mystery	Gilberte Boismartel	Silent
1928	His Tiger Lady	Tiger Lady	Lost film';Silent
1928	The Drag Net	The Magpie	Lost film;Silent
1928	The Mating Call	Rose Henderson	Silent
1928	Interference	Deborah Kane
1929	Broadway	Pearl
1929	Fast Company	Evelyn Corey
1929	Woman Trap	Kitty Evans
1929	Why Bring That Up?	Betty
1929	Darkened Rooms	Ellen	extant, Library of Congress
1930	Slightly Scarlet	Lucy Stavrin
1930	Framed	Rose Manning
1930	Paramount on Parade	Episode 'Origin of the Apache'
1930	The Silver Horde	Cherry Malotte
1930	Madonna of the Streets	May
1930	Paramount on Parade	Himself
1931	Traveling Husbands	Ruby Smith
1931	The Pagan Lady	Dorothy 'Dot' Hunter
1931	The Mad Parade	Monica Dale
1932	High Pressure	Francine Dale
1932	Attorney for the Defense	Val Lorraine
1932	The Crusader	Tess Brandon
1933	The World Gone Mad	Carlotta Lamont
1935	Symphony of Living	Paula Greig Rupert
1935	Home on the Range	Georgia
1935	Without Children	Shirley Ross Cole
1935	The Nitwits	Mrs. Alice Lake
1935	Speed Limited	Natalie
1936	One for All
1936	Song of the Trail	Myra
1936	It Couldn't Have Happened as But It Did	Beverly Drake
1936	The President's Mystery	Ilka Blake
1936	Hopalong Cassidy Returns	Lilli Marsh
1937	Jungle Jim	Shanghai Lil, one of four main characters	Serial
1937	King of Gamblers	Cora
1937	The Last Train from Madrid	Soldier	uncredited
1937	Night Club Scandal	Julia Reed
1937	Sudden Bill Dorn	Diana Viargas
1937	Daughter of Shanghai	Olga Derey
1938	Tip-Off Girls	Rena Terry
1938	Mr. Wong, Detective	Olga aka Countess Dubois
1938	The Law West of Tombstone	Clara 'Clary' Martinez
1939	Panama Lady	Lenore
1939	Daughter of the Tong	The Illustrious One
1939	The Mad Empress	Empress Eugenie
1941	Emergency Landing	Maude Lambert
1941	Forced Landing	Doctor Vidalek's Housekeeper
1941	Wide Open Town	Belle Langtry
1941	Dangerous Lady	Hester Engle
1941	Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring	Nurse holding microscope	uncredited
1941	Holt of the Secret Service	R49
1942	Westward Ho	Mrs. Healey
1942	Wrecking Crew	Martha Poska
1942	The Payoff	Alma Dorn
1942	Silent Witness	Mrs. Roos / Anna Barnes
1943	Spy Train	Frieda Molte
1943	The Seventh Victim	Natalie Cortez
1944	Bowery Champs	Gypsy Carmen
1947	Raiders of the South	Belle Chambers
1947	Robin Hood of Monterey	Maria Belmonte Sanchez
1948	Stage Struck	Miss Lloyd
1948	The Golden Eye	Sister Teresa
1949	Life of St. Paul Series	Jailer's Wife
1950	Again Pioneers	Alice Keeler

References

Bibliography

• The New York Times, Evelyn Brent, 75, Film Star of 1920s, June 8, 1975, Page 55.

External links

• Evelyn Brent at IMDb
• Evelyn Brent at AllMovie
• Photographs of Evelyn Brent
• Evelyn Brent at Find a Grave

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[de] Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent (* 20. Oktober 1899 in Tampa, Florida; † 4. Juni 1975 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; eigentlich: Mary Elizabeth Riggs) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin der Stummfilmzeit.

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- [en] Evelyn Brent

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[es] Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent, (20 de octubre de 1899 – 4 de junio de 1975), fue una actriz cinematográfica y teatral estadounidense.

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[ru] Эвелин Брент

Эвелин Брент (англ. Evelyn Brent, урождённая Мэри Элизабет Риггс, англ. Mary Elizabeth Riggs; 20 октября 1899 (1899-10-20) — 4 июня 1975) — американская актриса немого кино.

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