{{short description|American actress}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{more footnotes|date=September 2011}}{{Infobox person | name = Eva Condon | birth_date = September 26, 1880 | death_date = September 25, 1956 | occupation = Actress }}
'''Eva Condon''' (1880–1956) was an actress of the Broadway stage and vaudeville, from the early to mid 20th century.
==Stage career== She resolved to pursue acting at the age of 16. Condon graduated from Hunter College before becoming an understudy in the John Drew Jr. company for several seasons. Her ambition was to excel in high comedy. Her first appearance was in Columbia, South Carolina in ''A Single Man''. She portrayed a villainess in a Thais Lawton role.
Condon acted in ''Too Many Cooks'' at the 39th Street Theater in February 1914. This was her favorite theatrical production. Written by Frank Craven, the comedy featured its author in the part of the home builder. The following October she was in ''The Moneymakers'' at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. The play was written by Charles Klein who was once in the British Army and helped protect Westminster Abbey.
In 1930–31 Condon played the role of Mrs. Amos Evans in the touring production of ''Strange Interlude'', a nine-act, Pulitzer Prize winning play by Eugene O'Neill.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-fb24-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 | title= (still image) Eva Condon as Mrs. Amos Evans (1930-1931) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 16, 2015 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation}}</ref> At the American Theater in St. Louis, Missouri Condon was with a troupe that performed ''You Can't Take It with You'' in November 1938. She had the role of ''Penny'', the playwriting mother. Clarence Oliver headed a cast which was replete with some of Broadway's best actors.
In 1947 she appeared as a nun in an orphanage opposite Victor Mature in Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947).
She appeared with Katharine Cornell and Tyrone Power in ''The Dark Is Light Enough'' in 1955.<ref name="Condon IBDb"/>
In vaudeville Condon paired with Florence Nash. In motion pictures she performed with Madge Kennedy.
==Select theatre credits== * 1910: ''The Other Fellow''<ref name="Condon IBDb">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/Person/View/35997 |title=Eva Condon |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |accessdate=2015-11-16}}</ref> * 1912: ''C.O.D.''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1922: ''Spite Corner''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1923: ''Icebound''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1924: ''The Best People'' * 1926: ''Move On''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1928: ''Gods of the Lightning''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1934: ''Small Miracle''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1935: ''The Hook-up''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1940: ''Higher and Higher''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1943: ''The World's Full of Girls''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1949: ''The Closing Door''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/> * 1955: ''The Dark Is Light Enough''<ref name="Condon IBDb"/>
==References== {{reflist}} ;Notes * {{cite news| publisher=Denton Journal |title=Editorial Notes |date=April 26, 1930 |page=4}} * {{cite news| publisher=Edwardsville Intelligencer |title=Another Prize Winning Play At American In St. Louis Nov. 6 |date=October 31, 1910 |page=10}} * {{cite news| work=Los Angeles Times |title=Kit Cornell, Power Team In Fry Drama |date=February 26, 1955 |page=15}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Varied Offerings For First-Nighters |date=October 30, 1910 |page=X1}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Theatrical Notes |date=October 29, 1912 |page=13}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Theatrical Notes |date=January 23, 1913 |page=11}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Shakespeare's Thriller Lost In A Year Of Thrills |date=February 22, 1914 |page=X6}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=The First Night Calendar |date=October 4, 1914 |page=65}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Topping The Vaudeville Bills |date=January 17, 1915 |page=X7}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Brooklyn Amusements |date=February 7, 1915 |page=X5}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Who's Who |date=April 19, 1925 |page=X2}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Daly's To Present Move On |date=January 15, 1926 |page=18}} * {{cite news| work=New York Times |title=Up And Down Broadway |date=April 25, 1940 |page=6}} * {{cite news| publisher=Syracuse Herald Journal |title=Closing Door Is A Tense Melodrama |date=December 2, 1949 |page=52}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0174386|name=Eva Condon}} *{{IBDB name}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Condon, Eva}} Category:American stage actresses Category:American vaudeville performers Category:American film actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:Hunter College alumni Category:20th-century American actresses Category:1880 births Category:1956 deaths