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Eve Brent (1929 - 2011)

Actress. She will be best remembered for inheriting the role of Jane from the “Tarzan” film series, in the pictures “Tarzan and the Trappers” (1958) and “Tarzan’s Fight For Life” (1958), starring Gordon Scott. Born Jean Ann Ewers, she was raised in Fort Worth, her mother was associated with a Houston-area theater. She began her […]

Evelyn Brent (1901 - 1975)

Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone. After moving to New York City as a teenager, her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in the still […]

Evelyn Lauder (1936 - 2011)

She was born Evelyn Hausner in Vienna, Austria in 1936 to a Jewish family. Lauder’s family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, using their household silver to get visas to Belgium. They then moved on to England where her mother was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and Evelyn was placed in […]

Evelyn Venable (1913 - 1993)

Evelyn Venable was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the only child of Emerson and Dolores Venable. She graduated from Walnut Hills High School (class of 1930), where her father and grandfather William Henry Venable taught English. She performed in several plays at Walnut Hills, as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the Dream Child in Dear Brutus […]

Eydie Gorme (1928 - 2013)

Gormé was born Edith Gormezano (census sources indicate Edith Garmezano) in The Bronx, New York, in 1928, the daughter of Nessim and Fortuna, Sephardic Jewish immigrants. Her father, a tailor, was from Sicily and her mother was from Turkey. Gormé was a cousin of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka.  She graduated from William Howard Taft High School […]

Ezra Taft Benson (1899 - 1994)

Born on a farm in Whitney, Idaho, Benson was the oldest of eleven children. He was the great-grandson of Ezra T. Benson, who was appointed by Brigham Young a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1846. Benson began his academic career at Utah State Agricultural College (USAC), where he first met his […]

Ezzard Charles (1921 - 1975)

Ezzard Charles Boxer Ezzard Charles was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia. When he was a child, his family moved to Cincinnati, where he became interested in boxing. By the time he was sixteen, he had taught himself the rudiments of boxing so well that he won fortytwo amateur fights in a row—including two Golden Gloves and […]