EVE BRENT - Starred as Jane to Gordon Scott's Tarzan in the 1950s

Actress Eve Brent, who starred as Jane in two Tarzan films in the 1950s, died in a Sun Valley, California, hospital on August 27, 2011.  She was 82.  She was born Jean Ann Ewers in Houston, Texas, in 1930. She began her career in radio and local television, before moving to Hollywood in the early 1950s. She was originally billed as Lean Lewis, and appeared in such films as "Female Jungle" (1955), "The Storm Rider" (1957), "The Garment Jungle" (1957), "Journey to Freedon" (1957), "Gun Girls" (1957), the cult classic "The Bride and the Beast" (1958) with a script by Ed Wood, and "The Sad Horse" (1959). She starred as Jane to Gordon Scott’s Tarzan in the films "Tarzan’s Fight For Life" and "Tarzan and the Trappers" in 1958.  The latter was three episodes of a proposed Tarzan television series edited together for a film release.  She was also a prolific television performer from the mid-1950s appearing in episodes of "Death Valley Days", "Annie Oakley", "Adventures of Superman", Boris Karloff’s "The Veil", "The Case of the Dangerous Robin", "Checkmate", "Burke’s Law", "Emergency!", "Finder of Lost Loves", "Tales from the Crypt", "Twin Peaks", "Weird Science", "Roswell", and "JAG".  She continued to appeare often in films throughout her career, with roles in "Cage of Evil" (1960), "Mara of the Wilderness" (1965), "Coogan’s Bluff" (1968), "Airport" (1970), "The Barefoot Executive" (1971), "The Todd Killings" (1971), "The White Buffalo" (1977), "Fade to Black" (1980) as Aunt Stella, "BrianWaves" (1983), "Going Berserk" (1983), "Date with an Angel" (1987), "The Green Mile" (1999), "Garfield" (2004), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008), and "Hit List" (2011). She was married to Michael Ashe, her fifth husband, from the early 1980s until his death in 2008, and was frequently billed as Eve Brent Ashe later in her career.