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 childrens 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 Cowards 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 Barrymores daughter in MGMs 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.

Films indisponible à partir de Madge Evans

The Volunteer

Self

Film 1917

The Bard of Broadway

Film 1930

The Tunnel

Ruth McAllan

Film 1935

The Greeks Had a Word for Them

Polaire

Film 1932

Dinner at Eight

Paula Jordan

Film 1933

True Blue

Ruth, as a Child

Film 1918

Helldorado

Glenda Wynant

Film 1935

Heartbreak

Countess Vima Walden

Film 1931

The Mayor of Hell

Dorothy Griffith

Film 1933

Love Net

Patty Barnes

Film 1918

Death on the Diamond

Frances Clark

Film 1934

The New South

Georgia Gwynne, as a girl

Film 1916

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

June Marcher

Film 1933

The Nuisance

Dorothy Mason

Film 1933

Piccadilly Jim

Ann Chester

Film 1936

Guilty Hands

Barbara 'Babs' Grant

Film 1931

Sinners in Paradise

Anne Wesson

Film 1938

Are You Listening?

Laura O'Neil

Film 1932

Exclusive Story

Ann Devlin

Film 1936

Son of India

Janice

Film 1931

Day of Reckoning

Dorothy Day

Film 1933

The Thirteenth Chair

Nell O'Neill

Film 1937

West of Broadway

Anne

Film 1931

Wanted, A Mother

Eileen Homer

Film 1918

Lovers Courageous

Mary Blayne

Film 1932

Made on Broadway

Claire

Film 1933

Beauty for Sale

Letty Lawson

Film 1933

Army Girl

Julie Armstrong

Film 1938

Moonlight Murder

Toni Adams

Film 1936

Fugitive Lovers

Letty Morris

Film 1934

Hell Below

Joan

Film 1933

Age of Indiscretion

Maxine Bennett

Film 1935

What Every Woman Knows

Lady Sybil Tenterden

Film 1934

On the Banks of the Wabash

Lisbeth

Film 1923

The Show-Off

Amy Fisher Piper

Film 1934

Sporting Blood

Miss 'Missy' Ruby

Film 1931

Fast Life

Shirley

Film 1932

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

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

Film 1961

Calm Yourself

Rosalind Rockwell

Film 1935

Stolen Orders

Ruth Le Page - as a child

Film 1918

The Power and the Glory

Deanie Consadine

Film 1918

Paris Interlude

Julie

Film 1934

The Web of Desire

Marjorie

Film 1917

Men Without Names

Helen Sherwood

Film 1935

The Hidden Scar

Dot

Film 1916

Husband and Wife

Bessie

Film 1916

The Revolt

Nannie Stevens

Film 1916

Classmates

Sylvia

Film 1924

The Devil's Toy

Betty

Film 1916

Grand Canary

Lady Mary Fielding

Film 1934

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

Film 1975

Envy

Helen

Film 1930

Seventeen

Jane Baxter

Film 1916

The Seven Sisters

Clara

Film 1915

Three Green Eyes

Child

Film 1919

The Golden Wall

Madge Lathrop

Film 1918

The Burglar

Editha

Film 1917

The Corner Grocer

Mary Brian, age 8

Film 1917

Beloved Adventuress

Francine - Age 7

Film 1917

Sudden Riches

Little Emily

Film 1916

Maternity

Constance

Film 1917

The Master Hand

Jean as a Child

Film 1915

Séries TV indisponible à partir de Madge Evans

Studio One

Tv 1948

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tv 1951

Lux Video Theatre

Sylvia

Tv 1950

The Alcoa Hour

Tv 1955

Your Show of Shows

Tv 1950

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

The Philco Television Playhouse

Elizabeth Bennet

Tv 1948

Studio One

Ann

Tv 1948

The Philco Television Playhouse

Elinor Dashwood

Tv 1948