Eve Brent(1929-2011)
- Actress
Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth, Eve Brent began her
career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college
and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and
infant son in the 1950s, she landed some film (Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957),
The Bride and the Beast (1958)) and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her
name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first
of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane
opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) and in episodes of a Tarzan TV
series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments,
Brent has appeared in hundreds of commercials.
