Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in Walt Disney's Pinocchio. She was the first ever Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and its model.For her work in motion pictures, Venable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.
I've seen so many Hollywood families come apart because of the mother's career. I never regretted leaving films. If I have any regrets at all it is in leaving the stage. I might have been a really good actress. There simply was no chance in most of my pictures nor was I getting the proper training.
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Fact
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Daughter Dolores Venable Mohr, born November 26, 1935, in Los Angeles, California, weighing 9 lb., 2 oz.
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Daughter Rosalia Venable Mohr, born March 29, 1937, in Los Angeles, weighing 8 lb., 4 oz.
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She and her husband were strict vegetarians. Supposedly Evelyn never tasted meat or fish during her lifetime.
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During World War II she worked extensively for the Red Cross.
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For years it was believed that her father was so strict that he had it written into her Hollywood contract that there would be no kissing scenes in her films, and, indeed, she does not have any kissing scenes in her most famous films--Death Takes a Holiday (1934) and Pinocchio (1940) (in which she is the voice of the Blue Fairy). However, the rumor was apparently not true.
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Taught Latin at UCLA.
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Original model for Columbia Pictures logo
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fright Night
1947
Short
Julia Seds (uncredited)
Uncivil War Birds
1946
Short
Beverly (uncredited)
He Hired the Boss
1943
Emily Conway
Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
Emily Lawrence
Pinocchio
1940
The Blue Fairy (voice, uncredited)
Heritage of the Desert
1939
Miriam Naab
The Frontiersmen
1938
June Lake
The Headleys at Home
1938
Pamela Headley
Female Fugitive
1938
Peggy Mallory, aka Ann Williams
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938
Pauline Ward
My Old Kentucky Home
1938
Lisbeth Calvert
Racketeers in Exile
1937
Myrtle Thornton
Happy Go Lucky
1936
Mary Gorham
North of Nome
1936
Camilla Bridle
Star for a Night
1936
Anna Lind
Streamline Express
1935
Patricia Wallace
Harmony Lane
1935
Susan Pentland
Alice Adams
1935
Mildred Palmer
Vagabond Lady
1935
Miss Josephine 'Jo' Spiggins
The Little Colonel
1935
Elizabeth
The County Chairman
1935
Lucy Rigby
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
Lucy Olcott
Double Door
1934
Anne Darrow
Death Takes a Holiday
1934
Grazia
David Harum
1934
Ann Madison
Cradle Song
1933
Teresa
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Vagabond Lady
1935
performer: "Sailing, Sailing Over the Bounding Main" 1880, "The Man On the Flying Trapeze" 1934, "Merrily We Roll Along"
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