Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Fort Worth, Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some film (Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958)) and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, Brent has appeared in hundreds of commercials.

Brent was awarded the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress as Aunt Stella Binford in the slasher movie <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0080711/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Fade to Black (1980)</a>.

Eve Brent Ashe passed away on August 27, 2011, only two weeks away from what would have been her 82nd birthday on September 11.

Brent claimed she took the role of Jane in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0052275/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Tarzan&#39;s Fight for Life (1958)</a> because her son James, then 6, loved Tarzan movies, but this proved to be a very costly career move.

She appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0065377/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Airport (1970)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0120689/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Green Mile (1999)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0421715/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)</a>.

One son, James Marshall Lewis, was born to her on November 12, 1951 in Bell County, Texas by husband Jack Baker Lewis.

She was cremated at Neptune Society in Sherman Oaks, California.

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