PENNY SERENADE 1941 ACTRESS EVA LEE KUNEY DAUGHTER OF LEON F. KUNEY AND Edna Verna Allen Reedy

PENNY SERENADE 1941 ACTRESS EVA LEE KUNEY  DAUGHTER OF LEON F. KUNEY AND Edna Verna Allen

Name:  Leon F. Kuney

Alias: Lee

Born: 19 Feb 1902 Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA

Died:  12 Feb 1968 Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA

Spouse:  Edna Verna Allen Reedy  [nee Mrs Charles Partrick Reedy']

Parents: Clinton Leroy Kuney, Zoa E. McGiffin

Occupation: Clerk/Gas Station Attendant/ Clerk in the Film Industry 

Cause of Death: Death Record Pending

Date of Burial: 14 Feb 1968

Social Security #: Number: 562-16-9816; Issue State: California; Issue Date: Before 1951

Findagrave.com  85903306

Age at Death:YRS: 65

Political Party: Republican

Funeral: Forest Lawn Mortuary

Burial Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Plot Columbarium of Remembrance & Radiance, Lot 0, Space 61088

NAME: Edna Verna Allen

Born: 27 Jan 1904 Nova Scotia, Canada

Died: 18 Dec 1982 Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA

Spouse: Charles Patrick Reedy 1st

              Leon F. Kuney 2nd

Parents: Paul Allen. Mary Lockhart

Occupation: Housewife 

Cause of Death: Death Record Pending

Date of Burial:

Age at Death: YRS: 75

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Burial Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Plot Courts of Remembrance Wall Crypts, Lot 0, Space 5104

MARRIED: 17 Aug 1930 West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

All Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 results for Kuney
Newspaper Title                                       Location              Date of Publication Event
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File) Los Angeles, California                    17 Aug 1930              Marriage

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Los Angeles Times August 17, 1930 Leon P. Kuney and Edna V. Reedy Married

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Edna V Reedy California, County Marriages, 1850-1952Name: Leon F Kuney Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 27 Aug 1930 Event Place: Los Angeles, California, United States Gender: Male Age: 28 Birth Year (Estimated): 1902 Father's Name: Clinton L Kuney Mother's Name: Zoe E Mcgiffin Spouse's Name: Edna V Reedy Spouse's Age: 26 Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1904 Spouse's Father's Name: Paul S Allen Spouse's Mother's Name: May Lockhart

California, County Marriages, 1850-1952Document Information: Page 113
GS Film number 2074797
Digital Folder Number 005698502
Image Number 01237

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"California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8JM-Q7D : 8 December 2017), Leon F Kuney and Edna V Reedy, 27 Aug 1930; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,797.

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Leon F Kuney California, County Marriages, 1850-1952Name: Leon F Kuney Event Type:  Marriage Event Date: 27 Aug 1930 Event Place: Los Angeles, California, United States Gender: Male Age: 28 Birth Year (Estimated): 1902 Father's Name: Clinton L Kuney Mother's Name: Zoe E Mcgiffin Spouse's Name: Edna V Reedy Spouse's Age: 26 Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1904 Spouse's Father's Name: Paul S Allen Spouse's Mother's Name: May

California, County Marriages, 1850-1952Document Information: Page 113
GS Film number 2074797
Digital Folder Number 005698502
Image Number 01237

Citing this Record"California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8JM-Q7C : 8 December 2017), Leon F Kuney and Edna V Reedy, 27 Aug 1930; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,074,797

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PENNY SERENADE 1941

w/ CAREY GRANT & IRENE DUNNE

EVE LEE KUNEY

AKA LEE BUNKEY

EVA WITH CAREY GRANT

Edgar Buchanan and Eva

Eva, Cary and Irene 1941 Penny Serenade 

Eva Lee Kuney

LEE

CHILDREN

EVA LEE KUNEY

BORN: April 24, 1934 Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA

Died: May 24, 2015 Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA

Spouse: Arthur Buddy Grover 1st

              Kenneth Murray Feldman 2nd

Parents: Leon F. Kuney, Edna Verna Allan

Occupation: Actress/Drafter

Cause of Death:

Date of Burial:

Age at Death: YRS: 81 MOS: 1 DYS: 1

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EDUCATION: North Hollywood High School. NORTH HOLLY LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

BURIAL: UNKNOW

Eva Lee Kuney  in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995
Name: Eva Lee Kuney  Birth Date: 24 Apr 1934  Gender: Female  Mother's Maiden Name: Allen  Birth County: Los Angeles

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Obituary Legacy.com Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV) - Thursday, June 4, 2015

EVA FELDMAN Lee Feldman (nee Kuney), born April 24, 1934, in Hollywood, Calif., passed away May 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. Known as "Bunky" to co-stars, she began her film career at 18 months old in the "Our Gang" /"Little Rascals" comedies, and continued with films such as "The Wizard of Oz," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," and "Penny Serenade." After appearing as a dancer in many films, she left Hollywood to dance on the stage. She landed in Las Vegas for a temporary gig at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, and never left. Appearing alongside many major entertainers of the time she met and married musician Arthur "Buddy" Grover in 1955. After retiring from dance, she began a second career drafting for the Clark County Transportation Department. She married Kenneth Feldman in 1972. Upon full retirement, alongside husband Ken, she lent her extraordinary knowledge, talent, and love of the stage to community theater, volunteering for a majority of the troupes in town. She is survived by her children, Brad (Liz) Grover and Andrea "Ann" (Jim) Glover; grandchildren, Jared (Christine) and Joshua (Meghann) Glover; great-grandchildren, Finnley and Jaelynn; and many friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests you make a donation to your favorite animal or performing arts organization. No services are scheduled.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV) - Thursday, June 4, 2015

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Lee Kuney  in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013
Name: Lee Kuney  Birth Year: abt 1935  Yearbook Date: 1951  School: North Hollywood High School  School Location: North Hollywood, California Source Citation
"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1951

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MARRIAGE

1ST Arthur Buddy Grover

        Of The Buddy Trio

Married: May 8, 1955 Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA

Divorce: January 3, 1972 Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA

Issues: Andrea Lee, & Bradly Craig Grover

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Eva Lee Grover  in the Nevada, Divorce Records, 1968-2015
Name: Eva Lee Grover  Record Type: Plaintiff  Divorce Date: 3 Jan 1972  Divorce Place: Clark, Nevada, USA  Spouse:  Arthur Buddy Grover    Control Certificate Number:
400 Court Code: 8

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Arthur Buddy Grover  in the Nevada, Divorce Records, 1968-2015
Name: Arthur Buddy Grover  Record Type: Defendant  Divorce Date: 3 Jan 1972  Divorce Place: Clark, Nevada, USA  Spouse:  Eva Lee Grover    Control Certificate Number:
400  Court Code: 8

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Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Buddy Grover

1955-1972

Fareweill To A Friend  June 4, 2015
http://www.pressreader.com/usa/las-vegas-review-journal/20150604/282205124499102

Working in the theater community produces a variety of friendships.  Some last for the length of the production, some for a year or so until someone, perhaps, moves to a new city.  Then there are the special one.  The kind that survive distance and difficult disagreements, whether personal or over production issues; they last a lifetime.

In late May, the theater community lost a very special friend.  Lee Feldman came upon the scene along with her husband, Ken [Kenneth Feldman] in the early 80s.  Her knowledge, though known to very few, came from a lifetime of performing.

If anyone would’ve wanted to swap stories about child acting, they’d have a difficult time matching her.  Born Eva Lee Kuney in Hollywood, her father worked in the film industry.  Her acting career began at the tender age Of 18 months, playing Spanky McFarland’s baby sister in the Short film comedies called “Our Gang.” Which later ran on television as the series “The Little Rascals.”

Of 18 months, playing Spanky McFarland’s baby sister in the Short film comedies called “Our Gang.” Which later ran on television as the series “The Little Rascals.”

I often told her she was one of the forgotten Munchkins, because the studio hired a bunch of children whose efforts were ignored over the years to fill out Munchkinland for “The Wizard of Oz.”  Her career moved forward with “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and bumped to credited, co-star Statue playing the ill-fated daughter of Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in the box-of-Kleenex drama “Penny Serenade.”

In her teens, she became a contract player, dancing films, many of then now considered classics; two of them, “Holiday Inn,” and “white Christmas,” working with family friend Bing Crosby.  But Lee hated working in movies.

At age 18, free make her own choices, she got a gig with some guy named Donn Arden in San Francisco.  Not long after, he called to ask if she’d take a temporary job in his latest production show in Las Vegas at Wilbur Clark’s Desert Inn.  She accepted, and never left.

Patty Paige, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, those are only a few of the big entertainers of the time she worked with.  Google images of Arden chances are good Lee will be in many of the early photographs. There’s one of her with Dean Martin hanging in a store at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

When she retired from dancing, Lee earned her living as a draftswoman with the Clark County transportation department and found an outlet for her creativity with local theaters.  She worked on many award-Winning productions, and with all of the early companies such as Theatre Exposed, Playwright’s Horizons and the Rainbow Company.

But most often she could be found at Las Vegas Little Theatre, though always behind the scenes.  She would assistant direct, stage manage, even do props or costumes.  She’d choreograph, or play dance captain.  But you couldn’t entice her to step in front of the footlights for a million dollars.

Las Vegas Little Theatre had evidently won her heart, because eventually that was where she stayed.  The constant brilliance of her smile, and quick, easy laughter won her so many friends over the years.  Even the patrons grew to know and love her as she greeted that at the box office, or as she doled out refreshments during intermissions.

Lee, forgotten Munchkin, my talented and special friend, your theater family will miss you. But we’ll remember you and your radiant smile, and your laughter will ring in our ears always.  Paul Atreides is on the theater critics at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  His Offstage column appears on the first Thursday of the month.

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THE BUDDY TRIO

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle November 28, 1950 Tue Page 12 Buddy Grove

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2nd Husband Kenneth Murray Feldman

Married: January 13, 1972 Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, USA

EOM Death of Mr. Feldman 2007

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Kenneth M Feldman  in the Nevada, Marriage Index, 1956-2005
Name: Kenneth M Feldman  Gender: Male  Residence State: Nebraska  Spouse: Eva Lee Grover  Spouse Residence State: Nebraska  Marriage Date: 11 Jan 1972  Marriage City: Las Vegas  Officiant Type: Civil celebrant  Recorded Date: 13 Jan 1972  Recorded County: Clark

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Eva Lee Grover mentioned in the record of Kenneth M Feldman and Eva Lee Grover
Name  Kenneth M Feldman  Event Type Marriage  Event Date 11 Jan 1972  Event Place Las Vegas, , Nevada, United States  Residence Place Nebraska  Registration Date 13 Jan 1972  Registration Place , Clark, Nevada  Gender Male  Spouse's Name Eva Lee Grover  Spouse's Residence Place Nebraska  Type of Officiator Civil celebrant  Registration Year (Original) 1972

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"Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVKM-Q7D : 9 December 2014), Kenneth M Feldman and  

Eva Lee Grover, 11 Jan 1972; from "Nevada, Marriage Index, 1956-2005," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2007); citing Las Vegas, , Nevada, United States, County Book , p. , archive film number 099905, Nevada State Health Division, Carson City, and Clark County Marriage Bureau, Las Vegas.

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FELDMAN, KENNETH OBITUARIES
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV) - Friday, September 28, 2007
KENNETH FELDMAN Kenneth Feldman, 73, of Las Vegas, passed away Sept. 26, 2007. He was born May 8, 1934, in Pittsburgh, and had resided in Las Vegas since 1961. Kenneth was a retired speech pathologist for the State Government, and had served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was an current board member of the Las Vegas Little Theater, and had served as its past president. He was also a master of Oasis Masonic Lodge #41. Kenneth is survived by his wife, Lee; stepdaughter, Andrea (Jim) Glover; stepson, Bradley Grover; grandchildren, Josh and Jared; his brother, Marc Feldman; and his close friends, Paul and Sue Thorton, all of Las Vegas. Memorial services are pending.

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Kenneth Murray Feldman  in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2013Name:  Kenneth Murray Feldman  Birth Year: abt 1936  Yearbook Date: 1952  School: Allderdice High School  School Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Source Citation "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1952

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