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.
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Evelyn Venable
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Hired the Boss | Emily Conway (Character) | - | 1943 |
100% |
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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/ |
- | 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% |
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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 |
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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% |
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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 |