Eva Clara Lang (September 11, 1884 – April 7, 1933) was an American actress.
Early life
Lang was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][2] Her mother, Minnie B. Lang, was a physician who practiced in Kansas City for twenty years.[3] Her sister Marie Gertrude Pearce was also an actress, known professionally as "Marie Hudson".[4][5]
Career
Lang was a stage actress, and the leading lady of stock companies.[6][7][8] In 1910, she was one of the first American actresses to play Peter Pan on stage.[9] In 1917, TheDramatic Mirror reported that Lang was "the most popular stock actress Omaha has ever known."[10] "In Kansas City during the 1900s," notes one theatre historian, "the young women would go home after the play to practice in front of a mirror the Eva Lang gestures and the Eva Lang walk."[11] Her stage costumes were described in detail in magazines.[12][13] She toured in Japan, China, India, and the Philippines in Daniel Frawley's repertoire company in 1917.[1][14]
Lang appeared in several silent films, including A Desperate Tenderfoot (1920), A Western Feud (1921), The Golden Lure (1921), and The Outlaw's Revenge (1921), all directed by Otis B. Thayer. In 1930, after a brief retirement, she made a comeback appearance in Kansas City, in Her Friend, the King.[15]
Personal life
Lang was married to actor John Halliday from 1917[16] until they divorced in 1928.[17] She died in 1933, aged 48 years, in Los Angeles, California.[1]
