Evelyn Brent Net Worth is
$11 Million

Mini Biography

Petite, sultry leading woman from the 1920’s and 30’s, who was simply given birth to and schooled in Tampa, Florida, before age of 10 when she misplaced her mom. She shifted to NY with her father and began modelling while still in her teenagers. Her original purpose was to go in to the teaching profession. Rather, she became enamored with performing during a college visit to the favorite Takes on and Players Studio room in Feet.Lee, NJ, a creation cooperative for marketers Globe Film, Pathe and Metro. In a short time, Evelyn had employment as a supplementary for $3 weekly, using her primary name, Betty Riggs. Between 1914 and 1920, she made an appearance in highlighted film functions with celebrities like Olga Petrova and John Barrymore (who hand-picked her as his leading woman for ‘Raffles’ in 1917), after that required a sabbatical for wellness reasons and visited England. By causing the acquaintance of American playwright Oliver Cromwell, she could land an excellent function in the George Bernard Shaw comedy ‘The Ruined Female’ in the London stage. This, subsequently, resulted in her being ensemble as leading female in several British isles movies and, in 1922, she also visited Spain as superstar from the Spanish Jade (1922), distributed in the us by Paramount. Upon her go back to america in 1924, she was briefly under agreement to Fox, after that joined Associated Writers, and, finally, Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky (1926-30). On the elevation of her profession in silent movies, the dark-haired, aquiline Evelyn became a matinee idol with shows as spectacular temptresses and vamps, especially in movies by Austrian movie director Josef von Sternberg. She was significant as the gangster’s moll, Feathers, in Underworld (1927) (the proverbial ‘challenging broad using the center of silver’); so that as a self-sacrificing Russian female deeply in love with an exiled Czarist general (Emil Jannings) within the last Control (1928). She experienced another good component in Paramount’s 1st all-talking picture, Disturbance (1928), like a blackmailer. While Evelyn’s tone of voice proved simply no detriment to her achievement in talking photos, the declining quality of her movies did. Her Alaskan epic The Metallic Horde (1930), where she performed another disreputable personality called Cherry Malotte, was explained in crucial review as ‘boring and trivial’ (NY Times,Oct 25). Her shows as gang molls in Framed (1930) as well as the World Eliminated Mad (1933), and her improbable mission employee in Madonna from the Roads (1930), engendered lukewarm write-ups like ‘acceptable’ or ‘proficient’, which do nothing to raise Evelyn’s post-Paramount profession. By the finish of the 10 years, she had transferred down the ensemble list from second network marketing leads to supporting assignments, finally showing up in westerns and ‘quota quickies’ for poverty row studios, such as for example Monogram and PRC. In the ‘inexpensive and cheerful’ category, she appeared to appreciate herself in the Columbia serial Holt of the trick Program (1941), as Kay Drew, partner of challenging agent Jack port Holt. She was unforgettable, in another of her last assignments, being a one-armed satanist in the eerie Val Lewtonhorror flic about devil-worshippers in Greenwich Community, The Seventh Victim (1943). After making her last film in 1950, Evelyn found are an actor’s agent using the Thelma White Company in Hollywood. Following the loss of life of her third hubby, Harry Fox (who provided the Foxtrot its name) in 1959, Evelyn produced a final display appearance like a visitor celebrity on Wagon Teach (1957). She remaining the limelight once and for all in 1960 and resided her staying years in pension in Westwood Town, California.

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