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Evelyn Brent in Framed (1930)

Drinks. Songs. Private dances in the belly of an elephant.

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Evelyn Brent in lost silent film His Tiger Lady, 1928

This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association Forgotten Stars blogathon. Click HERE to read more entries about stars who were once at the top of the heap. EVELYN BRENT: The Scowling Seductress of the Silents the beauteous Evelyn Brent The rise and fall of Evelyn Brent is a true Hollywood story. Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in either Tampa, Florida or Syracuse, New York in either 1895 or 1899 or 1901, Betty, as she was always known to friends, shook off her drab beginnings and, starting…

Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida, on October 20, 1899, to a fourteen-year- old Italian mother and a seventeen- year-old Irish American father, the actress had a miserable childhood. Her father died when she was three years old and her mother died and left her penniless at the age of fourteen. Betty visited the studios at Fort Lee, New Jersey and began appearing as an extra, with her first credited role as Betty Riggs in Maurice Tourneur’s 1914 production of “The Pit.” Evelyn met…

1930 ~ Art Deco ~ Stage and films actress Evelyn Brent (1901 - 1975)

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