Evelyn Venable
American actress (1913-1993) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 80
Evelyn Venable was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as Grazia in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. In addition to acting in around two dozen films during the 1930s and 1940s, she was also the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
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The 10 from TexasFilm, (archive footage)1943
He Hired the BossFilm, Emily Conway1942
Lady in a JamFilm, Dr. Enright’s Patient (uncredited)1940
Lucky Cisco KidFilm, Emily Lawrence
PinocchioFilm, 1940The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited)1939
Heritage of the DesertFilm, Miriam Naab1938
Female FugitiveFilm, Peggy Mallory, aka Ann Williams1937
Racketeers in ExileFilm, Myrtle Thornton1936
Happy Go LuckyFilm, Mary Gorham1935
Alice AdamsFilm, Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
Vagabond LadyFilm, 1935Josephine Spiggins1934
David HarumFilm, Ann
Death Takes a HolidayFilm, 1934Grazia1933
Cradle SongFilm, Teresa1913Born18 October 1913People around Evelyn
- E. Lloyd Sheldon Produced Death Takes a Holiday and Double Door
Mitchell Leisen Directed Death Takes a Holiday and Cradle Song
Kent Taylor Also in The County Chairman (1935)
Hattie McDaniel Also in Alice Adams and The Little Colonel
Louise Dresser Also in Cradle Song and David Harum
Gladys Lehman Wrote Death Takes a Holiday and Double Door
Will Rogers Also in David Harum and The County Chairman
George Stevens Directed Alice Adams (1935)
Norman Taurog Directed Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)- Charles Vidor Directed Double Door (1934)
David Butler Directed The Little Colonel (1935)
Gail Patrick Also in Death Takes a Holiday and Cradle Song
Erle C. Kenton Directed Racketeers in Exile (1937)
Stepin Fetchit Also in The County Chairman and David Harum
Dickie Moore Also in Cradle Song and Star for a Night
Lambert Hillyer Directed My Old Kentucky Home (1938)
John G. Blystone Directed The County Chairman (1935)
Lewis Seiler Directed Star for a Night (1936)
Pandro S. Berman Produced Alice Adams (1935)
Russell Hayden Also in The Frontiersmen (1938)
Charles Brinley Also in The Frontiersmen (1938)
Douglas MacLean Produced Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Roger Imhof Also in David Harum and North of Nome
William Burress Also in Racketeers in Exile (1937)
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Pinocchio 1940
Alice Adams 1935
Death Takes a Holiday 1934
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She is one of a number of women who have been suggested to have served as the model for the personification of Columbia in the Columbia Pictures logo that was used from 1928 to 1936.
