Here are excerpts from Karen Soroca's fascinating biography of character actress Eve Smith... 

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE

All About Eve

A Woman of the Twentieth Century

By Karen Soroca & Eve Smith

With contributions by Dennis Smith

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EVE SMITH: BIOGRAPHY

 Eve Smith, A.K.A. Mother Goose, has lived the lives of five women, spanning the twentieth century. 

She was born in the deep South, the youngest girl of five children in a very strict but loving Southern Baptist family whose ancestors have been in this country since the Revolutionary War.  Much of her childhood sounds like Huckleberry Finn.  She married, as most women did, at a very early age with very few skills outside the home.  Divorced at a time when the word let alone the deed was scandalous, she had no alternative but to return home to the roost until she met her true love, A.Y. Smith, an Air Force Officer and pioneer who wrote many of the books on navigation still in use today.  They were married for seventeen and a half years.  Her husband was the second highest ranking P.O.W. captured by the Germans during the second World War.  Although he survived that experience, several years later, he was killed in an airplane crash leaving Eve a widow with three small children and no financial support.

Tragedy didn’t stop Eve.  She knew she had to go to work and also back to school.  She became an accountant, entering a highly guarded male profession.  With the help of her devoted sister, Marion, she saw to it that all three children completed their educations and created good lives of their own.

Her dating life as a widow in the fifties could be part of a modern day soap opera with all the so called “unmarried” men.  Unattached women definitely didn’t have the same status or respect in those days.

But it was later in life once the children were grown that Eve became involved in her own creativity.  She wrote three published books on her family’s genealogy.  Her last career started simply because she was bored.  Her youngest son, Dennis, was a night club entertainer.  She began singing silly songs with him all over Florida, then soloed it to Las Vegas where she became a headliner stand-up comedian, all at the tender age of seventy-three.  Studying and working hard, she made her way to Los Angeles where she won the title of Playboy Comedienne of the year which helped launch her very successful T.V. and film career.  

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Eve, who lived to age 92, spent the last few years of her life back in Florida where it all began, surrounded by friends and family.  Her humorous way of dealing with life and attitude that, indeed, it’s never too late for anything (well almost anything) kept her going!

INTRO..and a taste of Eve..

"Pssst… Want to buy a book?  Do you crave for another Hollywood expose written by an actress who has ruthlessly clawed her way to the top and is now ready to tell all?  Do you lust for behind the scenes gossip from a woman who knew them all and well (in the biblical sense), a jezebel who stole their souls and left them broken-hearted and penniless?  Are you starving for the story of a totally out of control down and out drug addict?  *Well, my name is Eve Smith, I’m ninety-two years old and NONE of the above, in fact, I didn’t start my acting career until I was seventy-three.  Okay, so I’m not a sex symbol and although I’ve made eighteen movies, I’ve never made one star.  But, at ninety-two, I don’t claim to be an angel.  No, I lost my ingenue status a long time ago.  When and how is none of your business unless, of course, you read this book.  

Still thirsting for a sordid story?  Have a little patience - like I used to tell my husband, A.Y., “just give me a few minutes to warm up.”  Of course, I’ve been warming up for most of the twentieth century.  Although my life hasn’t always been wild and crazy, it hasn’t been A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE either and I do have a story to tell.  Ready?"

*It saddens me [Karen Soroca] to report that on August 28, 1997, Eve Smith passed away very peacefully in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  As co-writer, I will make sure that her story is told to all.

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For further information, or to purchase this manuscript, please contact author Karen Soroca at contact@danstarproductions.net.

Excerpts from IT'S NEVER TOO LATE: All About Eve, a Woman of the 20th Century are used by written permission of Karen Soroca, Dennis Smith, and the Estate of Eve Smith. All rights reserved.  NO part of this book may be copied or distributed without express permission of the copyright holders.