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 couple reside in Maine. On her passing in 1975, Evelyn Brent was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California. She currently lives with cinematographer Daniel Gillham. Her last husband was the actor Harry Fox for whom the foxtrot dance was named. They were still married when he died in 1959. Channing has been married and divorced four times, to Walter Channing, Paul Schmidt, David Debin, and David Rawle. Evelyn Brent was married three times. Channing has also been nominated for a number of other awards, including the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress (for Six Degrees of Separation).

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. In 2002, Channing won two Emmy Awards; for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (The West Wing) and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (The Matthew Shepard Story). 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. Channing has won numerous acting awards for various works including the 1979 People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress, the 1989 CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic or Theatrical Special (for Tidy Endings), the 2003 London Critics Circle Film ALFS Award for Actress of the Year (for The Business of Strangers), and the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (for The Matthew Shepard Story). 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. Her part has gradually expanded from a recurring guest star role to a regular part. In 1928 she starred opposite William Powell in what was her own and Paramount Studios first talkie. In 1999, Channing took the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the television series The West Wing.

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. She also returned to the stage, winning the 1985 Tony Award for A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg. There, her career received a major boost the following year when she was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. In the 1980s and 1990s, Channing continued to work in television and film. 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. On the basis of this, CBS offered her the lead in two short lived television sitcom series, Stockard Channing in Just Friends (1979) and The Stockard Channing Show (1980). 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. In 1978, Channing played the part of Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease.

Service poem, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. In 1975, she starred alongside Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune. 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 brief appearances in 1971's The Hospital and 1972's Up the Sandbox, she landed her first lead role in the acclaimed 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely To.... 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. One of Channing's earliest roles was as The Number Painter's victim, in a series of segments on Sesame Street. 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. She decided to pursue an acting career, starting in the Boston theatrical community, but eventually working in New York and Los Angeles.

Evelyn Brent, (October 20, 1899 - June 4, 1975), was an American film and stage actress. Channing attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University and has degrees in history and literature. Channing was born as Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City to Lester and Mary Stockard. Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American actress. The Fortune (1975).

Sweet Revenge (1976). The Big Bus (1976). Grease (1978). Without a Trace (1983).

Heartburn (1986). Married to It (1991). Six Degrees of Separation (1993). Edie & Pen (1997).

The Business of Strangers (2001).