Category: Academy Awards

Born April 30, 1908 in Mill Valley, California, Eunice Quedens took her stage name from two perfume bottles in her Ziegfeld Follies dressing room in 1934. She got “Eve” from Evening in Paris and “Arden” from Elizabeth Arden. In minor roles in two films prior to her Ziegfeld stint, she had another minor role on…

Born June 19, 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, Mildred Natwick was the grand-daughter of Ole Natwick, one of the earliest Norwegians settlers in the United States. She was the cousin of Myron “Grim” Natwick, the creator of the Betty Boop cartoon character and principal animator of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A member…