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Madge Evans

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress / Model (person) / Stage Actress | * 07/01/1909 († 71, 04/26/1981) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American stage and film actress. She began her career as a child performer and model. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Movies with Madge Evans as Actress(57)

as Self (archive footage)1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)1961 Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Julie Armstrong1938 Army Girl
as Anne Wesson1938 Sinners in Paradise
as Patricia Booth1937 Espionage
as Nell O'Neill1937 The Thirteenth Chair
as Ann Devlin1936 Exclusive Story
as Susan Sprague1936 Pennies from Heaven
as Toni Adams1936 Moonlight Murder
as Ann Chester1936 Piccadilly Jim
as Ruth McAllan1935 The Tunnel
as Maxine Bennett1935 Age of Indiscretion
as Agnes Wickfield as a Woman1935 David Copperfield
as Helen Sherwood1935 Men Without Names
as Rosalind Rockwell1935 Calm Yourself
as Letty Morris1934 Fugitive Lovers
as Lady Sybil Tenterden1934 What Every Woman Knows
as Frances Clark1934 Death on the Diamond
as Julie1934 Paris Interlude
as Mary Adams1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
as Lady Mary Fielding1934 Grand Canary
as Amy Fisher Piper1934 The Show-Off
as Letty Lawson1933 Beauty for Sale
as Paula Jordan1933 Dinner at Eight
as Dorothy Mason1933 The Nuisance
as Dorothy Day1933 Day of Reckoning
as Anne Ainsley1933 Broadway to Hollywood
as Dorothy Griffith1933 The Mayor of Hell
as Joan1933 Hell Below
as Claire1933 Made on Broadway
as June Marcher1933 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
as Laura O'Neil1932 Are You Listening?
as Mary Blayne1932 Lovers Courageous
as Rosalie1932 Huddle
as Shirley1932 Fast Life
as Barbara 'Babs' Grant1931 Guilty Hands
as Miss 'Missy' Ruby1931 Sporting Blood
as Janice1931 Son of India
as Anne1931 West of Broadway
as Helen1930 Envy
as Sylvia1924 Classmates
as Ruth, as a Child1918 True Blue
as Patty Barnes1918 The Love Net
as Deanie Consadine1918 The Power and the Glory
as Ruth Le Page - as a child1918 Stolen Orders
as herself1917 The Volunteer
as Marjorie1917 The Web of Desire
as Jane Baxter1916 Seventeen
as Dot1916 The Hidden Scar
as Nannie Stevens1916 The Revolt
as Bessie1916 Husband and Wife
as Georgia Gwynne, as a girl1916 The New South
as Clara1915 The Seven Sisters

TV Shows/Series with Madge Evans as Actress(9)


Full Name: Madge Evans
Born: Thursday, 07/01 1909 (July) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 04/26 1981 (April) in Oakland (aged: 71)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Sidney Kingsley
Other names for Madge Evans (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Margherita Evans"
"Madge Evans Kingsley"
Madge Evans frequently works together with these people:
James Daly (20x, Actor)
E.G. Marshall (19x, Actor)
Nina Foch (16x, Actress)
Douglas Shearer (16x, Crew)
Cedric Gibbons (15x, Crew)
Charlton Heston (14x, Actor)
June Lockhart (14x, Actress)
Vaughn Taylor (14x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (13x, Actor)
Skip Homeier (13x, Actor)
Thomas Mitchell (12x, Actor)
James Gregory (12x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:81566, Added: 05/26/2018, Last updated: 02/28/2024