Elana Eden

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Elana Eden
Publicity photo, 1960
Born
Elana Lani Cooper
(Hebrew: לייני אילנה קופר)

(1940-05-01) 1 May 1940 (age 83)
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Other namesElana Kuper[1]
Ilana Lani Cooper
Ilana Myrow
OccupationActress
Years active1957–1968
Notable workThe Story of Ruth (1960)
Spouses
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(m. 1962; div. 1965)​
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(m. 1969; died 1999)​

Elana Eden (

20th Century Fox's biblical epic The Story of Ruth
(1960).

Early life

Eden was born in

Yiddish (an amalgamation of medieval Hebrew and German). She later learned English at school, and attended high school at a kibbutz in the central western coastal Sharon plain. She worked as a writer for the prominent Israeli national newspaper Haaretz, published in the then capital city of Tel Aviv.[6]

Eden decided to become an actress after seeing a performance of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion when she was 15 years old.[7] She won a scholarship to study acting at Israel's Habima Theatre Drama School in Tel Aviv, and made her stage debut in the play Lysistrata, which toured as she performed over 50 times in various locations in Israel in the late 1950s.[8]

Career

After having served as a machine gunner and volunteer with the

Israeli Defence Force), Eden auditioned for the film The Diary of Anne Frank in London in 1957, and she was one of the five finalists for the part until Millie Perkins was cast.[8]

20th Century Fox
studios.

When searching for an actress to play the title role in

Academy Award.[10] Her performance was also complimented by then famous Hollywood gossip and film / celebrity news columnist Hedda Hopper.[8]

After her 1960 appearance in The Story of Ruth, Eden appeared in several

television series in both the United States and her home country of Israel, keeping busy especially in the following year with two on the small screen after the release of her starring role.[8] In February 1961, she played Shasme Hasmar in the Hawaiian setting detective series Adventures in Paradise episode "Who Is Sylvia?"[11] She also played a young Czech woman named Anna, in the series starring noted film actress Barbara Stanwyvk in The Barbara Stanwyck Show in the episode "The Hitch-Hiker." She also appeared later that decade in Trunk to Cairo, an adventure film starring World War II hero turned acting star Audie Murphy, along with George Sanders and Marianne Koch, and two years later in the "The Revolutionary," a 1968 episode of The Name of the Game.[12]

Personal life

Eden married Israeli author and playwright Nissim Aloni in 1962, they divorced in 1965.[8] She later married American composer Fredric "Fred" Myrow on 6 June 1969.[13] They had three daughters: Rachael, Shira, and Neora.[14]

Eden was a speaker at the "kickoff" dinner for the 1967 United Jewish Appeal campaign and the Modesto Jewish Welfare in Modesto, California.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1960 The Story of Ruth Ruth Film debut
1966 Trunk to Cairo Hadassa Israeli-West German co-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1960 This Is Your Life Herself Episode: Mervin LeRoy
1961 Adventures in Paradise Shasme Hasmar Episode: Who Is Sylvia?
The Barbara Stanwyck Show Anna Episode: The Hitch-Hiker
1968 The Name of the Game Episode: The Revolutionary

Plays

References

  1. The National Jewish Post and Opinion
    . Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8108-1983-2
    .
  3. The Milwaukee Sentinel. Retrieved 21 September 2013.[permanent dead link
    ]
  4. ^ a b Lane, Lydia (7 May 1960). "Hollywood Beauty: Elana Eden Has Cinderella Story". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  5. The Milwaukee Journal
    . 24 May 1960. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  6. ^
    The National Jewish Post and Opinion
    . Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  7. ^ Hopper, Hedda (8 May 1960). "ELANA'S SUCCESS STORY; Israeli Beauty Stars in Her First Film, but It Hasn't Been Easy". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h "Elana Eden – The Private Life and Times". glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Retrieved 26 February 2011
  9. ^ "Review: 'The Story of Ruth'". Variety. 31 December 1960. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  10. ^ Poling, Daniel A. (2 February 1961). "The Story of Ruth". The Kiowa News. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  11. ^ "'Sylvia?' – Its Eden". Variety. 10 February 1961.
  12. ^ "The Desert Sun TV Time – Saturday May 24". The Desert Sun. 24 May 1975. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Ilana Cooper, "California, Marriage Index, 1960–1985"". FamilySearch. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  14. ^ "Fredric Myrow". Variety. 18 January 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2014.

External links

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