Madge Evans

Actor Jul 1 (died age 71) New York City, New York, USA 1915–1975 (60 year career)

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Biography

Lovely Madge Evans was the perennial nice girl in films of the 1930s. 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), fo…

Known For

Film

Dinner at Eight

Paula Jordan

Film

David Copperfield

Agnes Wickfield as a Woman

Film

The Mayor of Hell

Dorothy Griffith

Film

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

June Marcher

Film

The Tunnel

Ruth McAllan

Film

Guilty Hands

Barbara 'Babs' Grant

Film

Hell Below

Joan

Film

Pennies from Heaven

Susan Sprague

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (69)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975

as Self (archive footage)

Army Girl

as Julie Armstrong

Sinners in Paradise

as Anne Wesson

The Thirteenth Chair

as Helen "Nell" O'Neill

Espionage

as Patricia Booth

Pennies from Heaven

as Susan Sprague

Piccadilly Jim

as Ann Chester

Moonlight Murder

as Toni Adams

Exclusive Story

as Ann Devlin

David Copperfield

as Agnes Wickfield as a Woman

6.6

Helldorado

1935

as Glenda Wynant

Men Without Names

as Helen Sherwood

Calm Yourself

as Rosalind Rockwell

Age of Indiscretion

as Maxine Bennett

The Tunnel

as Ruth McAllan

Fugitive Lovers

as Letty Morris

Stand Up and Cheer!

as Mary Adams

The Show-Off

as Amy Fisher Piper

Grand Canary

as Lady Mary Fielding

4.1

What Every Woman Knows

1934

as Lady Sybil Tenterden

Death on the Diamond

as Frances Clark

Paris Interlude

as Julie

The Mayor of Hell

as Dorothy Griffith

Day of Reckoning

as Dorothy Day

Hell Below

as Joan

Dinner at Eight

as Paula Jordan

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

as June Marcher

Beauty for Sale

as Letty Lawson

Made on Broadway

as Claire

The Nuisance

as Dorothy Mason

Broadway to Hollywood

as Anne Ainsley

Huddle

as Rosalie

Lovers Courageous

as Mary Blayne

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

as Polaire

Fast Life

as Shirley

Are You Listening?

as Laura O'Neil

Heartbreak

as Countess Vima Walden

Guilty Hands

1931

as Barbara 'Babs' Grant

Son of India

as Janice

West of Broadway

as Anne

Sporting Blood

as Miss 'Missy' Ruby

The Bard of Broadway

Envy

as Helen

Classmates

1924

as Sylvia

On the Banks of the Wabash

1923

as Lisbeth

Three Green Eyes

1919

as Child

Home Wanted

1919

as Madge Dow

The Power and the Glory

1918

as Deanie Consadine

Love Net

1918

as Patty Barnes

The Golden Wall

1918

as Madge Lathrop

Neighbors

1918

as Clarissa Leigh

Wanted, A Mother

1918

as Eileen Homer

Stolen Orders

1918

as Ruth Le Page - as a child

True Blue

1918

as Ruth, as a Child

The Volunteer

1917

as Self

Maternity

1917

as Constance

The Web of Desire

1917

as Marjorie

Beloved Adventuress

1917

as Francine - Age 7

1.0

The Corner Grocer

1917

as Mary Brian, age 8

The Burglar

1917

as Editha

The New South

1916

as Georgia Gwynne, as a girl

The Hidden Scar

1916

as Dot

The Devil's Toy

1916

as Betty

Sudden Riches

1916

as Little Emily

Seventeen

1916

as Jane Baxter

The Revolt

1916

as Nannie Stevens

Husband and Wife

as Bessie

The Seven Sisters

as Clara

The Master Hand

as Jean as a Child

Television (7)

Matinee Theater

The Alcoa Hour

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Your Show of Shows

Lux Video Theatre

as Sylvia

The Philco Television Playhouse

as Elizabeth Bennet

Studio One