ACTOR

Evelyn Venable

1913 - 1993

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Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as Grazia in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. In addition to acting in around two dozen films during the 1930s and 1940s, she was also the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evelyn Venable has received more than 301,376 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Evelyn Venable is the 7,061st most popular actor (down from 6,395th in 2019), the 10,423rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,551st in 2019) and the 3,261st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

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  • 43.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Evelyn Venables by language

Over the past year Evelyn Venable has had the most page views in the with 30,885 views, followed by Russian (2,432), and German (2,294). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (94.47%), Afrikaans (92.17%), and Southern Azerbaijani (39.07%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Evelyn Venable ranks 7,061 out of 13,578. Before her are Arsinée Khanjian, Kathryn Crosby, Michael Mando, Archie Panjabi, Yukari Tamura, and Louise Lombard. After her are Matthias Brandt, Jeremy Allen White, Rowoon, Noriko Sakai, Yui Horie, and Louise Bourgoin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Evelyn Venable ranks 369. Before her are Dorothy Comingore, Wálter Guimarães, John N. Mitchell, Frans Peeraer, Lawrence Stevens, and Tahirou Congacou. After her are Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, Macdonald Carey, François Bourbotte, Roger Rio, Harold J. Stone, and Peter Glenville. Among people deceased in 1993, Evelyn Venable ranks 279. Before her are Said Mohamed Jaffar, Mary Philbin, Ion Negoițescu, Héctor Freschi, Arsène Auguste, and Tahirou Congacou. After her are Daulat Singh Kothari, Helmut Braselmann, Vladimir Barmin, Kenneth Connor, Alfred Mosher Butts, and Flora Nwapa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evelyn Venable ranks 10,423 out of 20,380. Before her are C. J. Ramone (1965), Brian Helgeland (1961), Kathryn Crosby (1933), Doja Cat (1995), Thomas Mifflin (1744), and Marie Maynard Daly (1921). After her are Jimmy Carl Black (1938), Claudia Kolb (1949), Jeremy Allen White (1991), Sterling Price (1809), Debbi Peterson (1961), and Bill Plympton (1946).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Evelyn Venable ranks 3,261. Before her are Marcia Strassman (1948), Taylor Schilling (1984), Liza Weil (1977), Charley Grapewin (1869), Patrice Wymore (1926), and Kathryn Crosby (1933). After her are Jeremy Allen White (1991), Kirk Cameron (1970), Iain Armitage (2008), Camilla Belle (1986), Kim Stanley (1925), and Robert Walker (1940).

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Television and Movie Roles

Alice Adams
Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Aug 23o 19356.7 / 10
Death Takes a Holiday
Grazia
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Mar 30o 19346.4 / 10
Pinocchio
The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited)
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
Feb 23o 19407.105 / 10