Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actor who made more than two dozen silent films, including The Last Command (1928), an epic war drama featuring William Powell for which Emil Jannings won the first ever Academy Award for Best Actor. Evelyn played the film's leading lady. Later that year, she starred opposite William Powell in her first sound movie. Brent played major roles in several features, most notably The Silver Horde, Paramount on Parade (both 1930). In 1936, she played William Boyd's love interest/femme fatale in Hopalong Cassidy Returns. She was also know for her roles in  Emergency Landing (1941), Bowery Champs (1944), The Golden Eye (1948), and Again Pioneers (1950). After performing in more than 120 films, she retired from acting in 1950 and worked for a number of years as an actor's agent.