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Evelyn Venable

Evelyn Venable

Highest Rated: 100% Pinocchio (1940)

Lowest Rated: 88% Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Birthday: Oct 18, 1913

Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

A delicately lovely leading lady who, after brief stage experience with Walter Hampden's Shakespearean stock company, Evelyn Venable was signed by Paramount and made her debut in director Mitchell Leisen's first film, the sensitive "Cradle Song" (1933). Generally cast as sweet, demure types, Venable received several good opportunities opposite the popular Will Rogers in "David Harum" (1934), in the "old dark house" mystery "The Double Door" (1934), and as Shirley Temple's sister in "The Little Colonel" (1935). Her finest performance, though, was her truly haunting Grazia, carrying on a love affair with Death in the form of an exotic prince (Fredric March) in Leisen's allegorical fantasy "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934). Of interest to trivia buffs was Venable's serving as the model for the illustration of a torch-bearing woman which served as the logo for Columbia Pictures.

Highest rated movies

89% 71% Alice Adams
88% 79% Death Takes a Holiday

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet He Hired the Boss Emily Conway (Character) - 1943
100% 73% Pinocchio The Blue Fairy (Voice) $18.7M 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucky Cisco Kid Emily Lawrence (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heritage of the Desert Miriam Naab (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Frontiersmen June Lake (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Old Kentucky Home Lisbeth Calvert (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Female Fugitive Peggy Mallory/Ann Williams (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollywood Stadium Mystery Pauline Ward (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Happy-Go-Lucky Mary Gorham (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Star for a Night Anna Lind (Character) - 1936
89% 71% Alice Adams Mildred "Georgette" Palmer (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vagabond Lady Miss Josephine 'Jo' Spiggins (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harmony Lane Susan Pentland (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 80% The Little Colonel Elizabeth (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Streamline Express Patricia Wallace (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The County Chairman Lucy Rigby (Character) - 1935
88% 79% Death Takes a Holiday Grazia (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet David Harum Ann Madison (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Double Door Anne Darrow (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Lucy Olcott (Character) - 1934