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Brenda Fowler
American actress and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eva Brenda Fowler (February 16, 1883 – October 27, 1942)[citation needed] was an American actress and writer.
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Early life
Brenda Fowler was born on February 16, 1883, in Jamestown, North Dakota as Eva Brenda Fowler.[citation needed]
Career
In 1905, Fowler was a member of the New Ulrich stock theater company.[1] In the early 1910s, she acted for two years in Honolulu, Hawaii, with the American Stock Company.[2] She also acted with the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles.[3]
Fowler performed in vaudeville in sketches that included The Hyphen, which had a patriotic theme.[4] On Broadway, She appeared in The Rack (1911) and Luck in Pawn (1919).[5]

Fowler left the stage to act in films, beginning with Money, Money, Money, a production of Preferred Pictures in 1922.[6] Her first talking film was The World Moves On (1934).[7] Her later films included The Case Against Mrs. Ames,[8] and Comin' Round the Mountain (1940).[9] She played shrewish woman in two John Ford films: As the sister of Will Rogers in Judge Priest (1934)[10] and as the wife of the corrupt banker (played by Berton Churchill) in Stagecoach (1939).
Fowler was also a writer, collaborating with Ethel Clifton on scripts.[3] Twenty of their one-act plays were presented on top-level vaudeville circuits.[11]
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Personal life
Fowler was married to John W. Sherman, and they had a daughter.[12]
Death
On October 27, 1942, Fowler died after a brief illness.[12]
Filmography
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