Madge Evans

Madge Evans (born Margherita Harrison Evans; July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress. She began her career as a child performer and model.

Biography

Child model and stage actress Evans was born in Manhattan, She made her professional debut at the age of six months, posing as an artist's model. As a youth, her playmates included Robert Warwick, Holbrook Blinn, and Henry Hull. When she was four years old, Evans was featured in a series of child plays produced by William A. Brady. She worked at the old movie studio in Long Island, New York. Her success was immediate, so much so that her mother lent her daughter's name to a hat company. Evans posed in a mother-and-child tableau with Anita Stewart, then 16, for an Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company calendar, and as the little mountain girl in Heidi of the Alps.

At the age of eight in 1917, Evans appeared in the Broadway production of Peter Ibbetson with John Barrymore,

Radio and television Later, Evans worked in radio and television in New York City. She performed on The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1950), Studio One (1954), Matinee Theater (1955), and The Alcoa Hour (1956). She was also a panelist on the 1950s version of Masquerade Party.

Personal life Evans married playwright Sidney Kingsley, best known for his plays Dead End and Detective Story, in York Village, Maine, on July 25, 1939. The couple owned a estate in Oakland, New Jersey. Following her marriage to Kingsley, Evans left Hollywood and moved to this home in New Jersey.

Death Evans died at her home in Oakland, New Jersey, from cancer in 1981, aged 71.

Filmography Film

Television Year Title Role Episode 1949-50 The Philco Television Playhouse Elinor Dashwood / Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility 1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse The niece Alison's House Cameo Theatre Deception 1952 Mrs. Thanksgiving TV movie 1953 Lux Video Theatre Sylvia This is Jimmy Merrill Armstrong Circle Theatre Mrs. Douglass Judgement Medallion Theatre The Trouble Train The Motorola Television Hour At Ease 1954 Justice The Desperate One Studio One Ann Fear Is No Stranger, The Magic Monday 1955 Matinee Theatre Coming of Age 1956 The Alcoa Hour Agnes Spencer The Girl in Chapter One 1958 The Investigator Season 1 Episode 6