Eva Clara Lang (September 11, 1884 – April 7, 1933) was an American actress.
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 Eva Lang, from a 1916 publication | |
| Born | Eva Clara Lang September 11, 1884 Columbus, Ohio |
| Died | April 7, 1933 (aged 48) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | John Halliday |
Early life
editLang was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][2] Her mother, Minnie B. Lang, was a physician who practiced in Kansas City for twenty years.[3] Her sister Marie Gertrude Pearce was also an actress, known professionally as "Marie Hudson".[4][5]
Career
editLang was a stage actress, and the leading lady of stock companies.[6][7][8] In 1910, she was one of the first American actresses to play Peter Pan on stage.[9] In 1917, The Dramatic Mirror reported that Lang was "the most popular stock actress Omaha has ever known."[10] "In Kansas City during the 1900s," notes one theatre historian, "the young women would go home after the play to practice in front of a mirror the Eva Lang gestures and the Eva Lang walk."[11] Her stage costumes were described in detail in magazines.[12][13] She toured in Japan, China, India, and the Philippines in Daniel Frawley's repertoire company in 1917.[1][14]
Lang appeared in several silent films, including A Desperate Tenderfoot (1920), A Western Feud (1921), The Golden Lure (1921), and The Outlaw's Revenge (1921), all directed by Otis B. Thayer. In 1930, after a brief retirement, she made a comeback appearance in Kansas City, in Her Friend, the King.[15]
Personal life
editLang was married to actor John Halliday from 1917[16] until they divorced in 1928.[17] She died in 1933, aged 48 years, in Los Angeles, California.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "The Death of Eva Lang; A Favorite Kansas City Actress Answers Her Last Curtain Call". The Kansas City Star. 1933-04-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ Londré, Felicia Hardison (2007). The enchanted years of the stage : Kansas City at the crossroads of American theater, 1870-1930. Missouri University Press. Columbia : University of Missouri Press. pp. 208–209. ISBN 978-0-8262-1709-7 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Eva Lang's Mother is Dead". The Kansas City Times. 1929-10-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wedding of Stage Favorite". The Omaha Evening Bee. 1917-08-09. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Former Actress Dead". The Hutchinson News. 1930-02-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McClure, Arthur F.; Richardson, Vivian. "Jeanne Eagels (1890–1929)". Missouri Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ "Grand". The Independent. 35: 10. April 29, 1916.
- ^ "Willis Wood". The Edwardsville Visitor. 1913-04-25. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hanson, Bruce K. (1993). The Peter Pan chronicles : the nearly 100 year history of "the boy who wouldn't grow up". Internet Archive. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-55972-160-8 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Flashes from Stock Stages". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 31. August 18, 1917.
- ^ Fisher, James; Londré, Felicia Hardison (2017-11-22). Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 296, 310. ISBN 978-1-5381-0786-7.
- ^ "Grand". The Independent. 35: 9. April 22, 1916.
- ^ Pollificia (1914-11-15). "Many New Fads Start Here; Instance of Omaha's Originality is Seen in New Style by Eva Lang". Omaha Daily Bee. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Henderson, Campbell (October 27, 1917). "Far East Tour a Success". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 4.
- ^ "Eva Lang is Back Home; A Favorite of Years Ago Bows Again to Kansas City Audiences". The Kansas City Star. 1930-04-13. p. 83. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Marriages". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 43. December 22, 1917.
- ^ "Eva Lang Seeks Divorce". The Kansas City Times. 1928-12-22. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.