Brenda Fowler

Brenda Fowler was born on February 16, 1883, in Jamestown, North Dakota as Eva Brenda Fowler.^{[citation needed]}

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]

Fowler was married to John W. Sherman, and they had a daughter.^[12]

On October 27, 1942, Fowler died after a brief illness.^[12]