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Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 â 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 GorâŚ
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Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 â 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. She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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Eve Brent's Filmography
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Ticket Out
as Emma
Hit List
as Mrs. Sheehan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
as Old Woman (uncredited)
Palo Alto, CA
as Grandma
No Poster
Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
as Self
Garfield
as Mrs. Baker
Between Christmas and New Year's
as May
No Poster
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
as Self (uncredited)
The Green Mile
as Elaine Connelly
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
as Self
Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style
as Mrs. Finley
The Experts
as Aunt Thelma
Deathrow Gameshow
as Crossing Guard
Date with an Angel
as Matron #1
Racing with the Moon
as Mrs. Kaiser
Going Berserk
as Mrs. Reese
BrainWaves
as Mrs. Simpson
Fade to Black
as Aunt Stella Binford
The White Buffalo
as Frieda
Timber Tramps
as Corey Sykes
The Todd Killings
S.L.I.P.
Airport
as Mrs. David Corman (uncredited)
The Happy Ending
as Ethel
Coogan's Bluff
as Hooker (uncredited)
A Guide for the Married Man
as Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
Stakeout!
as Susie
Tarzan and the Trappers
as Jane
Tarzan's Fight for Life
as Jane
No Poster
Destination Nightmare
as Lila Kirby
The Bride and the Beast
as Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
Gun Girls
as Joy
Forty Guns
as Louvenia Spanger
Journey to Freedom
as Mary Raikin
The Garment Jungle
as Receptionist (uncredited)
The Storm Rider
as Mrs. Cooper
Female Jungle
as Monica Madison