Eva Lang (actress)

Eva Clara Lang (September 11, 1884 – April 7, 1933) was an American actress.

Eva Lang
A white woman wearing a black hat, in profile
Eva Lang, from a 1916 publication
Born
Eva Clara Lang

September 11, 1884
Columbus, Ohio
DiedApril 7, 1933 (aged 48)
Los Angeles, California
OccupationActress
SpouseJohn Halliday

Early life

Lang 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

Lang 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

Lang 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
  1. "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.
  2. 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.
  3. "Eva Lang's Mother is Dead". The Kansas City Times. 1929-10-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Wedding of Stage Favorite". The Omaha Evening Bee. 1917-08-09. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Former Actress Dead". The Hutchinson News. 1930-02-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. McClure, Arthur F.; Richardson, Vivian. "Jeanne Eagels (1890–1929)". Missouri Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  7. "Grand". The Independent. 35: 10. April 29, 1916.
  8. "Willis Wood". The Edwardsville Visitor. 1913-04-25. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. 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.
  10. "Flashes from Stock Stages". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 31. August 18, 1917.
  11. 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.
  12. "Grand". The Independent. 35: 9. April 22, 1916.
  13. 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.
  14. Henderson, Campbell (October 27, 1917). "Far East Tour a Success". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 4.
  15. "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.
  16. "Marriages". The Dramatic Mirror. 77: 43. December 22, 1917.
  17. "Eva Lang Seeks Divorce". The Kansas City Times. 1928-12-22. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-04-10 – via Newspapers.com.
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