Eva Condon

Eva Condon (1880–1956) was an actress who worked in Broadway theater and vaudeville during the early to mid-twentieth century. Born in Washington, District of Columbia, she decided to pursue acting at age sixteen and later graduated from Hunter College. Before establishing herself as a principal performer, she spent several seasons as an understudy in the John Drew Jr. company, with an ambition to excel in high comedy. Her first stage appearance took place in Columbia, South Carolina, in A Single Man, where she took on a villainess role originally associated with Thais Lawton.

Condon's Broadway career spanned from 1910 to 1955 and encompassed a wide range of productions. Among her earliest credits were The Other Fellow in 1910, C.O.D. in 1912, and The Moneymakers at the Booth Theatre in October 1914, a play written by Charles Klein. In February 1914 she appeared in Too Many Cooks at the 39th Street Theater, a comedy written by Frank Craven, who also performed in the production as the home builder; Condon later identified this as her favorite theatrical production. Subsequent Broadway appearances included Spite Corner in 1922, Icebound in 1923, The Best People in 1924, and Move On in 1926.

Her later Broadway work included the play Gods of the Lightning in 1928, Small Miracle in 1934, The Hook-up in 1935, and Higher and Higher in 1940. She also appeared in Roar China, Popsy, The World's Full of Girls in 1943, and The Closing Door in 1949. In 1955 she appeared alongside Katharine Cornell and Tyrone Power in The Dark Is Light Enough, her final Broadway credit. Outside of New York, Condon performed in touring productions as well, playing Mrs. Amos Evans in the 1930–31 touring production of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning nine-act play Strange Interlude. In November 1938 she appeared at the American Theater in St. Louis, Missouri, in You Can't Take It with You, taking the role of Penny, the playwriting mother, in a cast headed by Clarence Oliver.

Beyond the stage, Condon worked in vaudeville, where she was paired with Florence Nash, and in motion pictures alongside Madge Kennedy. In 1947 she appeared in Henry Hathaway's film Kiss of Death, playing a nun in an orphanage in scenes opposite Victor Mature.