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      Evelyn Venable

      Evelyn Venable

      Highest Rated: 100% Pinocchio (1940)

      Lowest Rated: 86% 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

      Alice Adams
      Death Takes a Holiday

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      DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, Evelyn Venable, Fredric March, 1934 ALICE ADAMS, Evelyn Venable, Hedda Hopper, Jonathan Hale, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Albertson, 1935 THE LITTLE COLONEL, Evelyn Venable, Shirley Temple, 1935, TM and copyright ©Film Corp. All Rights Reserved HERITAGE OF THE DESERT, from left: Evelyn Venable, Donald Woods, 1939 DAVID HARUM, Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, 1934, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved VAGABOND LADY, from left, Evelyn Venable, Robert Young, 1935 HERITAGE OF THE DESERT, from left: Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, 1939 VAGABOND LADY, from left, Robert Young, Reginald Denny, Evelyn Venable, 1935 HOLLYWOOD STADIUM MYSTERY, Jimmy Wallington, Evelyn Venable, 1938 DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, Evelyn Venable, Fredric March, 1934 THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN, from left, Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, 1935, TM and copyright ©Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved DAVID HARUM, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, 1934, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved VAGABOND LADY, standing from left: Reginald Denny, Robert Young, standing right: Evelyn Venable, 1935 VAGABOND LADY, l-r: Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, 1935 THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN, Kent Taylor, Evelyn Venable, 1935, TM and copyright ©Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved FEMALE FUGITIVE, Evelyn Venable, Martha Tibbetts, Reed Hadley, 1938 DAVID HARUM, Evelyn Venable, Will Rogers, 1934, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved HERITAGE OF THE DESERT, from left: Evelyn Venable, John Skins Miller, 1939 DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, Katherine Alexander, Evelyn Venable, Fredric March, Gail Patrick, 1934 FEMALE FUGITIVE, Reed Hadley, Evelyn Venable, 1938
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      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
      86% 78% 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