Though Eve Arden was most famous for her role as teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks, she got her start on the stage in stock theater at 16.  Eventually, she made her way into the movies starring as a blonde femme fatale who gave the leading lady a run for her money in the 1929 movie Song of Love. After that movie, she went back to touring in the theater making a brief appearance in the 1933 movie, Dancing Lady.
Before going back to films in 1937, Ms. Arden appeared Parade and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 and 1936.  In 1937, she went back to the big screen appearing in the movies Oh, Doctor and Stage Door. Stage Door earned her notice for the way she portrayed the sardonic, witty supporting character Eve.  Based on that role, she was cast as the spunky, sarcastic supporting character in almost every movie she made for the next three years.
Wanting to break out of the typecasting,  Ms. Arden decided to go back to Broadway for a while before going back to making movies.  Ms. Arden co-starred with Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce as the Mildred's friend, Ida Corwin, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Later in the 1940s, Ms. Arden moved into radio eventually starring in Our Miss Brooks.  In 1952, Our Miss Brooks made the move to television where it was very successful lasting until 1956 and to film with a movie in 1956.  Later in 1957,  Ms. Arden came back to television to star in The Eve Arden show as a widow working to support her daughters. Unfortunately, the show lasted just one year.
Ms. Arden co-starred with James Stewart as his secretary in Otto Preminger's groundbreaking movie, Anatomy of a Murder.  Instead of a wisecracking supporting role, she played a pensive role this time in a serious movie dealing with explicit subjects.
After The Eve Arden show and Anatomy of a Murder, Ms. Arden continued working in television appearing in guest starring roles choosing to spend her time raising her children.  Series television called again in the late 1960s when she starred with Kay Ballard in The Mothers-In-Law.  The show was on the air from 1967 to 1969.
With the release of Grease in 1978, Ms. Arden went back to her wisecracking ways with her portrayal of Principal McGee.  Ms. Arden still had the looks and the sarcastic delivery.  Her last movie role was in 1982s Grease 2.  She continued working in television in guest starring roles until 1987.

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