Evelyn Brent

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6548 Hollywood Blvd. The venture allows her to participate in experimental theater. On her passing in 1975, Evelyn Brent was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. Cilento continued working as an actress both in films and television, and in the 1980s settled near Cairns Australia, where she built her own outdoor theater, named "Karnak", in the rainforest. Her last husband was the actor Harry Fox for whom the foxtrot dance was named. They were still married when he died in 1959. They are the parents of the actor Jason Connery. Evelyn Brent was married three times. Connery was the second of Cilento's three husbands, and they were married from 1962 until their divorce in 1973.

After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Tom Jones (1963), but allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery. By the early part of the 1930s, she was busy working in secondary roles in a variety of films as well as touring with vaudeville shows. She quickly secured work in British films and steadily worked until the end of the decade without making a major impression with film audiences. Although the film, titled Interference, did not live up to expectations at the box office, Brent played major roles in several more features, most notably The Silver Horde in 1930. She decided at a young age to follow a career as an actress and moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s. In 1928 she starred opposite William Powell in what was her own and Paramount Studios first talkie. Born to Raphael and Phyllis Cilento, both highly respected medical practitioners, Cilento and her family settled in Brisbane, Australia.

Signed by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, she went on to make more than two dozen silent films including three for the noted Austrian director, Josef von Sternberg. Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in Rabaul Papua New Guinea) is a theater and film actress. There, her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. After World War I, she went to London, England where she worked in film as well as on stage for a few years before going to Hollywood in 1922. As Evelyn Brent, she continued to work in film, developing into a young woman whose sultry looks were much sought after, often as a femme fatale.

Service poem, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She began her film career working under her own name at a New Jersey film studio then made her major debut in the 1915 silent film production of the Robert W. After moving to New York City, as a teenager her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in the still relatively new business of making motion pictures. Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of ten when her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her alone.

Evelyn Brent, (October 20, 1899 - June 4, 1975), was an American film and stage actress.