{{Short description|American actress (1900–1962)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Eve Southern | image = Eve Southern - Indigo Blue.jpg | image_size = | caption = Southern in ''Screenland'', February 1930 | birth_name = Elva L. McDowell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|08|23|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Ranger, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|11|29|1900|08|23|mf=yes}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | resting_place = Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1916–1936 | spouse = {{marriage|Robert F. Shepherd|1925|1928|reason=divorced}} }}

'''Eve Southern''' (born '''Elva L. McDowell'''; August 23, 1900 &ndash; November 29, 1972){{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=704}} was an American film actress. She appeared in 38 films from 1916 to 1936. In 1930 she was selected by portrait artist Rolf Armstrong as one of the film industry's 16 "screen beauties".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Armstrong |first=Rolf |date=January 1930 |title=What is Beauty? |url=https://archive.org/stream/screenland20unse#page/n407/mode/2up |journal=Screenland |location=New York City |publisher=Screenland Magazine, Inc. |access-date=October 20, 2015 }}</ref>

==Early years== Southern studied music in Fort Worth, Texas, with her voice covering three octaves, "the lowest tones of the contralto as well as the high C of the soprano."<ref name="fwrt">{{cite news |title=Fort Worth girl musician making good in California |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71312776/eve-southern/ |access-date=February 17, 2021 |work=Fort Worth Record-Telegram |date=December 3, 1916 |page=27|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> However, she was also interested in acting in films.<ref name=fwrt/>

==Career== Southern moved from Fort Worth to Hollywood and began working in films when she was 13 years old, but many of her parts were removed in editing.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eve wins out after ten years of ill luck |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71311923/eve-southern/ |access-date=February 17, 2021 |work=Times Colonist |date=November 3, 1927 |location=Canada, British Columbia, Victoria |page=7|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

After appearing in several films in the late 1910s and 1920s, Southern suffered an automobile accident in June 1929 that left her badly injured.{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=704}} It was reported in July that year that she had "been in a plaster cast for weeks."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Photoplay|title=As We Go to Press|url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3637movi#page/n9|via=Internet Archive|page=6|date=July 1929|issn=0732-538X}}</ref> In 1932, she broke her back, after which she appeared in several roles before retiring from film.{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=704}}

==Death== Southern died in Santa Monica, California, on November 29, 1972, after a battle with Parkinson's disease.{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=704}} She is interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=704}}

==Selected filmography== *''Intolerance'' (1916) *''Conscience'' (1917) *''Broadway Love'' (1918) *''Greater Than Love'' (1921) *''After the Show'' (1921) * ''The Rage of Paris'' (1921) *''The Golden Gallows'' (1922) *''Nice People'' (1922) * ''The Girl in His Room'' (1922) *''Souls for Sale'' (1923) * ''Burning Words'' (1923) *''Trimmed in Scarlet'' (1923) * ''The Chorus Lady'' (1924) *''The Dangerous Blonde'' (1924) *''Morals for Men'' (1925) *''A Woman of the Sea'' (1926) *''With Love and Hisses'' (1927) *''Wild Geese'' (1927) *''The Gaucho'' (1927) *''Clothes Make the Woman'' (1928) * ''The Naughty Duchess'' (1928) * ''Stormy Waters'' (1928) *''The Haunted House'' (1928) * ''Whispering Winds'' (1929) *''Morocco'' (1930) *''Lilies of the Field'' (1930) *''Fighting Caravans'' (1931) *''Law of the Sea'' (1932) *''The Ghost Walks'' (1934) *''Stage Frights'' (1935) *''The King Steps Out'' (1936)

==Further reading== * {{cite book | author=Michael G. Ankerich | author-link=Michael G. Ankerich | title=Dangerous Curves atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen| publisher=BearManor | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-59393-605-1}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Works cited== *{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Scott|year=2016|edition=Third|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|isbn= 978-1-476-62599-7|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina}}

==External links== {{commons category|Eve Southern}} *{{IMDb name|id=0816123}}

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