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| Eva Bell |
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born:
23 December 1887 Saginaw, Michigan, United States of America |
died:
29 December 1965 Saginaw, Michigan, United States of America (age 78) |
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American actress and acrobat, who performed a bounding trampoline act in vaudeville with her husband Pete Bell; together, they were known as "Bell and Eva." They both acted alongside a young Oliver Hardy in his earliest film appearances at Lubin. She was previously known as Eva Zeno, of comedy aerialists "Zeno, Jordan, and Zeno," and was also known as Edith Eva. Eva Scranton and Peter Greenwald (Pete Bell) married on 6 November 1907 in London, Ontario, Canada. They settled in Eva's hometown of Saginaw, Michigan, and had two children: Peter Leroy Greenwald (1909-1971) and Evelyn May Greenwald (1911-1936); Evelyn, who worked in her parents' act, tragically died at age 25 from burns after she accidentally set her bedwear on fire with a cigarette. The entire family is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Saginaw. |
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Real name: Eva J. Scranton |
Films listed on this page: all films with Babe Hardy. |
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| Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSZZ-VH6 (1907 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLY8-YRT (1910 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ7Q-MK8 (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7MM-YWT (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K41C-623 (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FSL-NXFZ (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTGR-P47 (Social Security Death Index) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62942099 (Find a Grave) https://archive.org/details/variety08-1907-11/page/n89/mode/1up?q=%22eva+zeno%22&view=theater (Variety, 16 Nov 1907) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1907-11-23_19_47/page/16/mode/1up?q=%22scranton+bell%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 23 Nov 1907) https://archive.org/details/variety09-1908-01/page/n77/mode/1up?q=%22pete+and+eva+bell%22&view=theater (Variety, 18 Jan 1908) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1914-06-27_26_26/page/54/mode/1up?q=%22mr+and+mrs+pete+bell%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 27 Jun 1914) https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1915-03-27_27_13/page/37/mode/1up?q=%22bell+and+eva%22&view=theater (The Billboard, 27 Mar 1915) https://archive.org/details/variety66-1922-03/page/n53/mode/1up?q=%22edith+eva%22&view=theater (Variety, 10 Mar 1922) https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/30s/1936/BB-1936-05-30.pdf#page=32 (The Billboard, 30 May 1936) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF74-SFR (daughter Evelyn May Greenwald's death certificate, 1936) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research) This page was last updated on: 22 June 2024 |
