Editing Eve Arden (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Anthony George Eve Arden Checkmate 1961.JPG|thumb|[[Anthony George]] and Arden in "Death by Design", ''[[Checkmate (American TV series)|Checkmate]]'' (1961)]]
Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in [[Mill Valley, California]],<ref name="yob">Census records from 1910 and 1920 (the earliest records found on Arden) as well as the Social Security Death Index ([http://www.locateancestors.com/arden-california 568-03-2856] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602123949/http://www.locateancestors.com/arden-california/ |date=June 2, 2016 }}) support 1909 as her year of birth, as does a travel manifest from 1953, giving her age as 44. However, her [http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/a/Eve%20Arden/eve_arden.htm death certificate (#39019050699, County of Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in the name of Eve Arden West)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128060116/http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/a/Eve%20Arden/eve_arden.htm |date=January 28, 2021 }}, the [http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=CAdeath1940&h=7839277&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&rhSource=7884 California Death Registry]{{Subscription required}} and her [http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/EveArdensGravePhoto.shtml family crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery] cite 1908</ref><ref>[http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/11/13/Actress-Eve-Arden-dies/2194658472400/ Obituary (with 1908 year of birth proffered by Arden's daughter, Liza)], upi.com, November 13, 1990; accessed January 1, 2017.</ref><ref>After her death, some sources initially cited 1907, giving her age as 83, but this is groundless. Arden gave her own year of birth as 1912 for many years.</ref> to Charles Peter Quedens, the son of Charles Henry Augustus Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks, and Lucille Frank, the daughter of Bernard Frank and Louisa Mertens. Lucille, a milliner, divorced Charles over his gambling and went into business for herself.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lauerman|first=Connie|date=June 28, 1985|title=All About Wisecracking Eve -- The Joy and the Pain|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-06-28-8502110839-story.html|access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>

Although not Catholic, young Eunice was sent to a Dominican convent school in [[San Rafael, California]]. She then attended [[Tamalpais High School]], a public high school in Mill Valley, until age 16. After leaving school, she joined the stock theater company of Henry "Terry" Duffy.<ref>Three Phases of Eve (1985). St Martin's Press</ref>