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Madge Evans - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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July 1, 1909 - April 26, 1981 - American actress. She had a special reddish-yellow hair. She started acting at the age of four. Before that, she was often a child model at various shows. Some of the film's scripts were written specifically for her. These include "The Little Duchess", "The Adventures of Carol", "Wanted: Mother." In the movie "Motherhood," starring Alice Brady, Madge played little Constance. At the age of seven, the girl was already getting a standing ovation from the audience. Between 1914 and 1921, little Miss Evans starred in thirty-six films. But the roles became more and more limited, and Madge Evans temporarily left the cinema. In 1926, seventeen-year-old Madge tried her hand at the theater. Her first performance was the comedy "Daisy Mayme" written by George Kelly. This was followed by roles in productions of "The Marquis", where her stage partners were Arthur Byron and Billy Burke, wife of the famous Broadway impresario Siegfeld, and "Our Betters" with Ina Claire.
In 1927 Evans returned to Hollywood and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1930 she starred in several short films. And only then she was entrusted with the main role in the film "Son of India". The main male role in it was played by Ramon Novarro. In the next film, Sporting Blood, which explores the dangers of fraudulent horse racing, she co-stars with Clark Gable. In early 1931, Madge played for three months at the Biltmore Theater. She was cast as Cynthia in the comedy Philip Goes Forth .
Among the actress's work in the cinema of that period are her roles in the drama "West Broadway", Claire Bidwell in the comedy "Made on Broadway" and Joan Standish in the military melodrama "Hell Below" .
In the musical Penny From Heaven (1936), Madge Evans co-stars with jazz stars Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. In the film, a social drama is shown with refined humor: a prisoner sentenced to death asks his cellmate, who is released, to take care of his daughter, the person he killed. Evans played a social worker who must place a child in a new family. Madge's partners on the set at various times were John Gilbert, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fred McMurray.
The actress acted in films until 1938. Her most recent films on the big screen were Sinners in Paradise and Army Girl. In July 1939 Madge Evans got married and left the cinema. In the 40s, she returned to work, but already on television, rejecting numerous offers from Hollywood directors. There were many rumors in Hollywood about Evans' romances with Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable and Ramon Novarro, despite the latter's homosexuality. But on July 25, 1939, Madge Evans married Sidney Kingsley, the famous Hollywood screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Wyler's film Dead End .
The couple acquired 50 acres in New Jersey and retired to the estate. Kingsley continued to work on scripts, and Madge occasionally appeared on television. The couple lived happily together for almost forty-two years.
Madge Evans died at her home on April 26, 1981 from cancer.


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