(Hollywood Reporter)- Fifties starlet played Jane in two Tarzan films during her long, steady career.
Eve Brent, whose steady work over 60 years in show business included playing Jane opposite Gordon Scott in two Tarzan films of the 1950s, died Aug. 27 of natural causes at Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Sun Valley, Calif. She was 82.

The character actress appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, from 1955 pic Female Jungle (as Jean Lewis) to the indie film Hit List, which is scheduled for release in 2012.

Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in Forty Guns, his 1977 Western that starred Barbara Stanwyck.

A native of Houston, Brent also had stints in such recent films as The Green Mile (1999), Garfield (2004) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).

She played Jane in Tarzan and the Trappers and Tarzan’s Fight for Life, both from 1958, and was a hooker in Clint Eastwood starrer Coogan’s Bluff (1968). Other film credits include Gun Girls (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958) and Fade to Black (1980), for which she won a Saturn Award.

Brent’s multiple TV appearances include Death Valley Days, Adventures of Superman, Dragnet, Family Affair, thirtysomething, Highway to Heaven, Roswell, Scrubs and Community.
(LA Times)- Laurie Hoyt, who called herself Laurie McAllister when she hoisted the bass in L.A. bands the Runaways and the Orchids, died Aug. 25 in Eugene, Ore., according to her mother, Lavonne Hoyt. She said McAllister’s death was the result of asthma.

Born June 26, 1957, Laurie was the last in an illustrious line of foxy bass players to pass through the Runaways, the legendary all-girl band depicted in the 2010 movie "The Runaways." She joined guitarists-vocalists Joan Jett and Lita Ford and drummer Sandy West in 1978 and performed with the band live, but the Runaways broke up several months later. “Best job ever,” it said on McAllister’s Facebook profile, regarding her Runaways days.

“I am so sorry to hear of Laurie's passing,” Jett said in an emailed statement. “She was a good person and a good bass player. It was a great experience being in a band with her, as she was the last Runaways bass player before her own band, The Orchids, formed. I was still in touch with her and saw her last year at a show. It was as if no time had passed.

“My heart goes out to her family and friends, and most of all, to Laurie. Rock on girl.”

After the Runaways, McAllister played bass and sang for the Orchids, another all-girl band. Like the Runaways, the Orchids were managed and produced by the infamous Sunset Strip legend Kim Fowley. They recorded one self-titled album for MCA. “Second best job ever,” Hoyt-McAllister’s Facebook profile said of the Orchids.

“She had a big heart and was one of the most interesting people I have ever known,” Orchids guitarist Sunbie Harrell wrote in a Facebook notice that announced her bandmate’s death.”Tonight, my rock sisters and I lament her loss but celebrate her exuberant life.” Harrell set up a Memorial Wall for McAllister on Facebook.

Hoyt was always a rebel girl tomboy figure, says her sister, Susan Hoyt. The neighborhood kids teased her for wearing high-tops; at age 8, she begged her parents to let her have a mohawk. “She fit the Runaways perfectly,” said Susan Hoyt. “I used to say it was so cool that the punk rock movement came around to explain Laurie.”

After the Orchids broke up, McAllister moved to Amsterdam and lived with Dutch rock star Herman Brood. She then moved back near her hometown of Eugene, living in the country. "She loved it there, she just loved the last few years of her life,” her mother says.

"Laurie was one of the tragic figures in rock 'n' roll, who did everything right — she looked the part, she wrote the part, she performed the part, she sang the part — but never with the right people at the right time,” Fowley said. “She was a giant of a woman: good-looking, smart, and larger than life."