Eve Miller

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Eve Miller
Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
OccupationActress
Years active1945–1961
Political partyDemocratic

Eve Marilyn Miller (born Marilyn Miller;

Van Nuys, California
. She died by suicide at age 50.

Early life

Born in

Los Angeles, California, Miller was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stanley Miller[2] and was raised in San Francisco, where her father was a piano salesman.[3]

During the early years of World War II, Miller worked as a welder in a shipyard[4] and later, before the war ended, became a department store clerk.[1]

Movie career

Eve Miller with Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees (1952)

In 1951, after several small parts in television and movies such as

Warner Brothers' The Big Trees, starring opposite Kirk Douglas. Several more parts followed such as The Winning Team with Ronald Reagan and Kansas Pacific starring Sterling Hayden.[5]
Miller's main work though came in a long string of television roles stretching through the 1950s.

She appeared regularly in anthologies such as

Fireside Theater, Four Star Playhouse, and Crossroads. The actress also had parts in a number of series including Lassie, Annie Oakley, and Richard Diamond, Private Detective
.

Personal life

A Democrat, she supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.[6]

In 1954, Miller met Glase Lohman, an actor who had a brief television and movie career in the mid-1950s,[citation needed] and they became engaged. On July 21, 1955, after an argument between the two, Miller attempted suicide by stabbing herself in the abdomen.[7] According to newspapers at the time, she was discovered by police on her kitchen floor, surrounded by letters she had written to Lohman.[8] Eventually, after four hours of surgery, she recovered.

On August 17, 1973, nine days after her 50th birthday, Miller died by suicide in

Van Nuys, California.[8] She was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery (Hollywood Hills).[9]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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  3. ^ Profile, GlamourGirlsoftheSilverScreen.com; accessed January 27, 2018.
  4. ^ "Eve Miller - The Private Life and Times of Eve Miller. Eve Miller Pictures". www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com.
  5. ^ Kansas Pacific, archive.org; accessed November 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers
  7. Newspapers.com
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  8. ^ a b Profile, glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com; accessed November 7, 2016.
  9. ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.

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