Actress Eve Brent died 27 August 2011. Born Jean Ewers in Houston, Texas, in either 1929 or 1930, she won the Saturn Award in 1981 for best supporting actress for her role in Fade to Black.
She began her career in radio and early television, and moved to Hollywood in the 1950s, and had her first role in 1955’s Female Jungle. In addition to her film and television roles, she appeared in hundreds of tv commercials, and continued to work up until the present. Her last film role is in the yet-to-be-released Hit List. She came to prominence in 1958, rebooting the character of Jane in Tarzan and the Trappers and Tarzan’s Fight for Life, but in 2007, claimed that those roles were a bad career move, telling a Tarzan fan site “I really couldn’t get work as an actress because of Jane. You get stereotyped, at least in the business at that time.” On the other hand, she also said “The memory of being Jane, and the fact of being Jane, has allowed me to be a part of motion picture history, and a part of all the lives of all the people who have enjoyed Tarzan. I am so grateful for that.” [Quoted by The New York Times.] She moved to stage acting and got bit film parts for the next decade. She made a comeback starting in the 1970s.
Her other genre roles include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Garfield (2004), Roswell (2002), The Green Mile (1999), Weird Science (1994), Tales from the Crypt (1989), three episodes of Highway to Heaven (1985-89), Date with an Angel (1987), BrainWaves (1983), Fade to Black (1980), The Bride and the Beast (1958), The Veil (1958), and Adventures of Superman (1956).
She is survived by her son, James Marshall Lewis, from her first marriage (which ended in divorce). Her second husband, Michael Ashe, predeceased her.