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