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person_profile-Madge Evans

Madge Evans Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Madge Evans

Date of Birth:

Jul 01, 1909

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 26, 1981

Biography of

Madge Evans

    Lovely Madge Evans was the perennial nice girl in films of the 1930's. By then, she had been in front of the camera for many years, starting with Fairy Soap commercials at the age of two (she sat on a bar of soap holding a bunch of violets with the tag line reading "have you a little fairy in your home?"). 'Baby Madge' also lent her name to a children's hat company. In 1914, aged five, she was picked out by talent scouts to appear in the William Farnum movie The Sign of the Cross (1914), followed by The Seven Sisters (1915) with Marguerite Clark.

    By the end of the following year, she had amassed some twenty film credits, appearing with such noted contemporary stars as Pauline Frederick or Alice Brady. All of her early films were made on the East Coast, at studios in Ft.Lee, New Jersey. In 1917 (aged eight), Madge made her Broadway debut in 'Peter Ibbetson' with John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore. She resumed her stage career in 1926 as an ingenue with 'Daisy Mayme' and the following year appeared with Billie Burke in Noel Coward's costume drama 'The Marquise' (1927).

    Her pleasing looks and personality soon attracted the attention of Hollywood and she was eventually signed by MGM in 1931. During the next decade, she appeared in several A-grade productions, notably as Lionel Barrymore's daughter in MGM's Dinner at Eight (1933) and as the dependable Agnes Wickfield in one of the best-ever filmed versions of David Copperfield (1935). She co-starred opposite James Cagney in the gangster movie The Mayor of Hell (1933), Spencer Tracy in The Show-Off (1934) and listened to Bing Crosby crooning the title song in Pennies from Heaven (1936). Madge received praise for her performance as the star of Beauty for Sale (1933) and The New York Times review of January 13 1934 described her acting in Fugitive Lovers (1934) (opposite Robert Montgomery ) as 'spontaneous and captivating'. Many of her 'typical American girl' roles did not allow her to express aspects of the greater acting range she undoubtedly possessed. Too often she was cast as the 'nice girl' - and those rarely make much of a dramatic impact. On the few occasions she was assigned the role of 'other woman' , such as the Helen Hayes-starrer What Every Woman Knows (1934), audiences found her character difficult to believe and disassociate from her all-round wholesome image. When her contract with MGM expired in 1937, Madge wound down her film career and, following her 1939 marriage, concentrated on being the wife of celebrated playwright Sidney Kingsley. She last appeared on stage in one of his plays, "The Patriots", in 1943.

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Madge Evans

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Filmography of

Madge Evans

Found 61 Movies in total

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

Army Girl

Julie Armstrong ( Actor )

... 1938

Sinners in Paradise

Anne Wesson ( Actor )

... 1938

The Thirteenth Chair

Nell O'Neill ( Actor )

... 1937

Espionage

Patricia Booth ( Actor )

... 1937

Pennies from Heaven

Susan Sprague ( Actor )

... 1936

Piccadilly Jim

Ann Chester ( Actor )

... 1936

Moonlight Murder

Toni Adams ( Actor )

... 1936

Exclusive Story

Ann Devlin ( Actor )

... 1936

The Tunnel

Ruth McAllan ( Actor )

... 1935

Men Without Names

Helen Sherwood ( Actor )

... 1935

Calm Yourself

Rosalind Rockwell ( Actor )

... 1935

Age of Indiscretion

Maxine Bennett ( Actor )

... 1935

David Copperfield

Agnes Wickfield as a Woman ( Actor )

... 1935

Helldorado

Glenda Wynant ( Actor )

... 1935

What Every Woman Knows

Lady Sybil Tenterden ( Actor )

... 1934

Death on the Diamond

Frances Clark ( Actor )

... 1934

Paris Interlude

Julie ( Actor )

... 1934

Grand Canary

Lady Mary Fielding ( Actor )

... 1934

Stand Up and Cheer!

Mary Adams ( Actor )

... 1934

The Show-Off

Amy Fisher Piper ( Actor )

... 1934

Fugitive Lovers

Letty Morris ( Actor )

... 1934

Dinner at Eight

Paula Jordan ( Actor )

... 1933

Day of Reckoning

Dorothy Day ( Actor )

... 1933

Broadway to Hollywood

Anne Ainsley ( Actor )

... 1933

Beauty for Sale

Letty Lawson ( Actor )

... 1933

The Mayor of Hell

Dorothy Griffith ( Actor )

... 1933

Hell Below

Joan ( Actor )

... 1933

The Nuisance

Dorothy Mason ( Actor )

... 1933

Made on Broadway

Claire ( Actor )

... 1933

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

June Marcher ( Actor )

... 1933

Fast Life

Shirley ( Actor )

... 1932

Huddle

Rosalie ( Actor )

... 1932

Are You Listening?

Laura O'Neil ( Actor )

... 1932

... 1932

Lovers Courageous

Mary Blayne ( Actor )

... 1932

West of Broadway

Anne ( Actor )

... 1931

Guilty Hands

Barbara 'Babs' Grant ( Actor )

... 1931

Sporting Blood

Miss 'Missy' Ruby ( Actor )

... 1931

Son of India

Janice ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1923

Three Green Eyes

Child ( Actor )

... 1919

Love Net

Patty Barnes ( Actor )

... 1918

The Golden Wall

Madge Lathrop ( Actor )

... 1918

Stolen Orders

Ruth Le Page - as a child ( Actor )

... 1918

True Blue

Ruth, as a Child ( Actor )

... 1918

... 1918

The Volunteer

Self ( Actor )

... 1917

The Corner Grocer

Mary Brian, age 8 ( Actor )

... 1917

Beloved Adventuress

Francine - Age 7 ( Actor )

... 1917

Maternity

Constance ( Actor )

... 1917

The Web of Desire

Marjorie ( Actor )

... 1917

The New South

Georgia Gwynne, as a girl ( Actor )

... 1916

Seventeen

Jane Baxter ( Actor )

... 1916

The Hidden Scar

Dot ( Actor )

... 1916

Husband and Wife

Bessie ( Actor )

... 1916

Sudden Riches

Little Emily ( Actor )

... 1916

The Devil's Toy

Betty ( Actor )

... 1916

The Master Hand

Jean as a Child ( Actor )

... 1915

The Seven Sisters

Clara ( Actor )

... 1915