Madge Evans
Actor
Born July 1, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA
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), 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).
Filmography
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Matinee Theater
The Alcoa Hour
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Your Show of Shows
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse
Elizabeth Bennet
Army Girl
Julie Armstrong
Sinners in Paradise
Anne Wesson
The Thirteenth Chair
Helen "Nell" O'Neill
Espionage
Patricia Booth
Pennies from Heaven
Susan Sprague
Piccadilly Jim
Ann Chester
Moonlight Murder
Toni Adams
Exclusive Story
Ann Devlin
The Tunnel
Ruth McAllan
Men Without Names
Helen Sherwood
Calm Yourself
Rosalind Rockwell
Age of Indiscretion
Maxine Bennett
David Copperfield
Agnes Wickfield as a Woman
Helldorado
Glenda Wynant
What Every Woman Knows
Lady Sybil Tenterden
Death on the Diamond
Frances Clark
Paris Interlude
Julie
Grand Canary
Lady Mary Fielding
Stand Up and Cheer!
Mary Adams
The Show-Off
Amy Fisher Piper
Fugitive Lovers
Letty Morris
Dinner at Eight
Paula Jordan
Day of Reckoning
Dorothy Day
Broadway to Hollywood
Anne Ainsley
Beauty for Sale
Letty Lawson
The Mayor of Hell
Dorothy Griffith
Hell Below
Joan
The Nuisance
Dorothy Mason
Made on Broadway
Claire
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
June Marcher
Fast Life
Shirley
Huddle
Rosalie
Are You Listening?
Laura O'Neil
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Polaire
Lovers Courageous
Mary Blayne
West of Broadway
Anne
Heartbreak
Countess Vima Walden
Guilty Hands
Barbara 'Babs' Grant
Sporting Blood
Miss 'Missy' Ruby
Son of India
Janice
Envy
Helen
On the Banks of the Wabash
Lisbeth
Home Wanted
Madge Dow
Three Green Eyes
Child
Love Net
Patty Barnes
The Golden Wall
Madge Lathrop
Stolen Orders
Ruth Le Page - as a child
True Blue
Ruth, as a Child
Wanted, A Mother
Eileen Homer
The Volunteer
Self
The Corner Grocer
Mary Brian, age 8
Beloved Adventuress
Francine - Age 7
Maternity
Constance
The Web of Desire
Marjorie
The New South
Georgia Gwynne, as a girl
Seventeen
Jane Baxter
The Hidden Scar
Dot
Husband and Wife
Bessie
Sudden Riches
Little Emily
The Devil's Toy
Betty
The Master Hand
Jean as a Child
The Seven Sisters
Clara