Evelyn Brent
Acting
Biography
Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs) was an American film and stage actress.
Born: October 18, 1899
Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida, USA
Known For
The Last Command
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Underworld
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
King of Gamblers
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Interference
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
Darkened Rooms
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
The Nitwits
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
The Seventh Victim
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
Filmography
as Sheila
as Alice Keeler
as Sister Teresa
as Miss Lloyd
as Maria Belmonte Sanchez
as Belle Chambers
as Natalie Cortez
as Frieda Molte
as Mrs. Roos / Anna Barnes
as Alma Dorn
as Martha Poska
as Mrs. Healey
as Kay Drew
as Hester Engle
as Belle Langtry
as Brunet Who Turns In Andros
as Maude Lambert
as Empress Eugenie
as Carney
as Lenore
as Clara 'Clary' Martinez
as Olga Petroff / Countess Dubois / Sophie Dome
as Rena Terry
as Olga Derey
as Diana Viargas
as Julia Reed
as Woman Soldier (uncredited)
as Cora
as Shanghai Lil
as Lilli Marsh
as Ilka Blake
as Beverly Blake
as Myra
as Alice Lake
as Shirley Ross Cole
as Georgia
as Paula Greig Rupert
as Natalie
as Nina Lamont
as Tess Brandon
as Val Lorraine
as Francine Dale
as Monica Dale
as Dorothy 'Dot' Hunter
as Ruby Smith
as May
as Cherry Malotte
as Apache Dancer
as Rose Manning
as Lucy Stavrin
as Ellen
as Betty
as Kitty Evans
as Pearl
as Deborah Kane
as Rose Henderson
as The Tiger Lady
as The Magpie
as Sibyl Shelton
as Mary Vanbrugh
as Natalie Dabrova
as Dolly Martin
as Feathers
as Sally Ray
as Jane
as Inez Remírez
as Judith Gilbert
as Mame Walsh
as Rosalie Ryan
as Señorita Catalina / La Ortiga
as Polly O'Day
as "Stormy" Martin
as Marie Wynn
as May Halloway
as Margaret West
as Lola Nichols
as Lolaire
as Ellen Craig
as Bessie Burbeck
as Mitzi
as Mañuela
as Beryl Fane
as Nora Prescott
as Pierrette
as Nan Somers
as Lady Eileen
as Marian Trevor
as Det. Alma Peterson
as Ethel
as Rosa
as Betty Hamlin
as Constance Brent
as Nannie Maitland
as Bessie Alden
as Dorothy Temple
as Lucille Vane
as Vivian Austin
as Little Snowbird