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Evelyn Venable
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Evelyn Venable's first dramatic appearance was in a Cincinnati high school production of Romeo and Juliet; this led to her professional debut in a civic center production of Dear Brutus. Venable won a scholarship to Vassar, then briefly attended the University of Cincinnati before joining a stock company supervised by Broadway star Walter Hampden, an old friend of the Venable family. She received generous critical praise for her performance as Roxanne opposite Hampden's Cyrano de Bergerac. While appearing with the Hampden troupe in Los Angeles, Venable was signed by Paramount Pictures. During her brief reign as a movie star, Venable was subject to reams of publicity coverage: she was billed as "the kissless girl," purportedly because her father had insisted that a clause be inserted in her contract preventing her from being kissed onscreen (Venable's dad found this studio-fabricated legend as perplexing as she did). Reportedly, she was the model for Columbia Pictures' "Torch Lady," though other likely candidates for this honor include Claudia Dell and Viola Dana.
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Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 - November 15, 1993) was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice of the Blue Fairy in the Disney animated classic Pinocchio.[1]
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Grazia (Evelyn Venable) prays in church. Two cars drive fast and see a shadow; but in an accident no one is hurt. Grazia feels the miraculous. Corrado (Kent Taylor) and his father urge her to marry Corrado; but she says she is not ready. Grazia screams and collapses, saying she felt something cold and terrible, a shadow. A shadowy figure comes to Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), saying he is Death on a three-day holiday.
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When a Southern belle (Evelyn Venable) married a Yankee (John Lodge), her father (Lionel Barrymore), a former Confederate colonel, promptly disowned her. Now, years, later, the couple's only daughter (Shirley Temple) visits the family plantation to meet her grandfather and heal old wounds. But will her spunk and a charming tap dance with the family butler (Bill "Bojangles" Robinson) be enough to win the crusty old man's heart?
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Evelyn Venable was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the only child of Emerson and Dolores Venable. She attended Walnut Hills High School where her father taught English. Her grandfather William Henry Venable ... taught English there. She performed in several plays at Walnut Hills, as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the Dream Child in Dear Brutus and Rosalind in As You Like It. She attended Vassar College for a short time before returning to the University of Cincinnati. She performed in Walter Hampden's touring productions, including Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac and Ophelia in Hamlet.[2][1][3]
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In a painful depiction of Alice's social exclusion, she attends a fancy gathering at wealthy friend Mildred Palmer's (Evelyn Venable) mansion with her protesting brother Walter (Frank Albertson) reluctantly acting as her date. At the party, Alice is repeatedly shunned by the girls, who smile limply at her or make cutting remarks about her dress, and by the boys who will not deign to ask her for a dance. Perpetually optimistic, but clearly hurt by the treatment, Alice sits in her out-of-date dress and wilted violets stolen from the town park's flower bed, waiting for some acknowledgment from her peers. Hepburn makes Alice's efforts to fit in with the richer crowd genuinely painful to watch as she is snubbed by not only her peers, but their parents.
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