Eve Brent
Known for ActingBorn 1929-09-11 — died 2011-08-27Houston, Texas, USA
Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011), known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress who portrayed Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life.
Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some films including Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958), and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan and the Trappers, Tarzan's Fight for Life (both 1958), and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, she has appeared in hundreds of commercials.
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She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Known for
The Green Mile
1999 · as Elaine Connelly
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · as Old Woman (uncredited)
Garfield
2004 · as Mrs. Baker
Airport
1970 · as Mrs. David Corman (uncredited)
Coogan's Bluff
1968 · as Hooker (uncredited)
Date with an Angel
1987 · as Matron #1
Ticket Out
2012 · as Emma
The White Buffalo
1977 · as Frieda
Racing with the Moon
1984 · as Mrs. Kaiser
Hit List
2011 · as Mrs. Sheehan
A Guide for the Married Man
1967 · as Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
Fade to Black
1980 · as Aunt Stella Binford
Going Berserk
1983 · as Mrs. Reese
The Experts
1989 · as Aunt Thelma
The Happy Ending
1969 · as Ethel
Forty Guns
1957 · as Louvenia Spanger
Palo Alto, CA
2007 · as Grandma
Saved By the Bell: Hawaiian Style
1992 · as Mrs. Finley