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Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]

Eve Arden was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 22-24. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

Was a longtime friend of Jane Wyman, who attended her funeral in 1990. Arden guest-starred opposite Wyman on Falcon Crest (1981).

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 26-27. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Starred in several preview performances of one of Broadway's most notorious flops, "Moose Murders." After an argument with the author over 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 1960s, Arden raised a family and did a few guest roles, until her come-back television series The Mothers-In-Law (1967). This show, co-starring Kaye Ballard ran for two seasons. After that, she would make more unsold pilots, a couple of television movies and a few guest shots.

In the film Anatomy of a Murder (1959), her real-life husband, Brooks West, plays the local prosecutor who goes up against defense attorney James Stewart.

When the show ended, Arden tried another television series, The Eve Arden Show (1957), but it was soon canceled.

She had one natural child, while two girls and one boy were adopted. Her fourth child and second son, Douglas Brooks West, was born on September 17, 1954, weighing 9 lbs., 4 oz.

As her film career began to slow, CBS would take the popular radio show to television in 1952.

The television series Our Miss Brooks (1952) would run through 1956 and led to the movie Our Miss Brooks (1956).

In 1948, CBS Radio premiered "Our Miss Brooks", which would be the perfect show for her character.

For her role as Ida in Mildred Pierce (1945), she received an Academy Award nomination.

Famous for her quick ripostes, this led to work in Radio during the 1940s.

In At the Circus (1939), she was the acrobatic Peerless Pauline opposite Groucho Marx and the Russian sharp shooter in the comedy The Doughgirls (1944).

Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens in Mill Valley, California (near San Francisco), and was interested in show business from an early age. At 16, she made her stage debut after quitting school to joined a stock company. After appearing in minor roles in two films under her real name, Eunice Quedens, she found that the stage offered her the same minor roles. By the mid 30s, one of these minor roles would attract notice as a comedy sketch in the stage play "Ziegfeld Follies". By that time, she had changed her name to Eve Arden, which she adopted while looking over some cosmetics and spotting the names "Evening in Paris" and "Elizabeth Arden". In 1937, she garnered some attention with a small role in Oh, Doctor (1937), which led to her being cast in a minor role in the film Stage Door (1937). By the time the film was finished, her part had expanded into the wise-cracking, fast-talking friend to the lead. She would play virtually the character for most of her career. While her sophisticated wise-cracking would never make her the lead, she would be a busy actress in dozens of movies over the next dozen years.

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.

Arden was the daughter of Charles Quedens (1881-1959) and Lucille (née Frank) Quedens (1878-1936), both born and raised in California. She was the paternal granddaughter of Charles Quedens (1844-1900) and Meta (née Dierks) Quedens (1843-1926), both were born in Germany and died in California.