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Edith Evanson was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in her acting career, Evanson landed roles in various films, including "Orchestra Wives" (1942) with George Montgomery, "The Jade Mask" (1945) and the Gerald Mohr comedy "The Notorious Lone Wolf" (1946). She also appeared in "You Gotta Stay Happy" (1949), the adaptation "Perfect Strangers" (1950) with Ginge...

Filmography

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The Seven Minutes (1971)

Twice Told Tales (1963)

The Clown and the Kid (1961)

Toby Tyler (1960)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Icelandic proprietress

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Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque

Toby Tyler (1960) -- (Movie Clip) When No One Else Would Have You!

Biography

Edith Evanson was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in her acting career, Evanson landed roles in various films, including "Orchestra Wives" (1942) with George Montgomery, "The Jade Mask" (1945) and the Gerald Mohr comedy "The Notorious Lone Wolf" (1946). She also appeared in "You Gotta Stay Happy" (1949), the adaptation "Perfect Strangers" (1950) with Ginger Rogers and "The D*mned Don't Cry" (1950) with Joan Crawford. Her film career continued throughout the fifties in productions like the biographical drama "The Magnificent Yankee" (1951) with Louis Calhern, the spy thriller "The Redhead and the Cowboy" (1951) with Glenn Ford and the drama "Rawhide" (1951) with Tyrone Power. She also appeared in the Kirk Douglas drama "The Big Carnival" (1951). Nearing the end of her career, she continued to act in the dramatic adaptation "Desiree" (1954) with Marlon Brando, "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" (1955) and "Storm Center" (1956) with Bette Davis. She also appeared in "Drango" (1957) with Jeff Chandler and "The Young Stranger" (1957). Evanson last acted in the thriller "The Split" (1968) with Jim Brown. Evanson passed away in November 1980 at the age of 84.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

Twice Told Tales (1963)

The Clown and the Kid (1961)

Toby Tyler (1960)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Icelandic proprietress

The Quiet Gun (1957)

The Young Stranger (1957)

The Leather Saint (1956)

Storm Center (1956)

The Road to Denver (1955)

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

The Silver Star (1955)

Mrs. [Belle] Dowdy

City of Shadows (1955)

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)

Désirée (1954)

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)

Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)

It Happens Every Thursday (1953)

The Company She Keeps (1951)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Magnificent Yankee (1951)

Elephant Stampede (1951)

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Perfect Strangers (1950)

Union Station (1950)

Mrs. Willecombe

You Gotta Stay Happy (1949)

Big Jack (1949)

Madame Bovary (1949)

Mother Superior

The Gallant Blade (1948)

I Remember Mama (1948)

Forever Amber (1947)

Singapore (1947)

Fun on a Weekend (1947)

Mr. Cowperwaithe's secretary

The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)

Mysterious Intruder (1946)

The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)

Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)

Captain Eddie (1945)

Youth on Trial (1945)

The Jade Mask (1945)

The Fighting Guardsman (1945)

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

The Soul of a Monster (1944)

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Mrs. Vankovitch

Swing Out the Blues (1944)

There's Something About a Soldier (1943)

The Moon Is Down (1943)

Bomber's Moon (1943)

Chetniks! (1943)

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

Lady for a Night (1942)

Woman of the Year (1942)

Reunion in France (1942)

Orchestra Wives (1942)

Girl Trouble (1942)

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)

Life with Henry (1941)

Anna, Swedish maid

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Nurse on hospital roof

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)

Life Events

Videos

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque Hard-luck big city newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has rolled into Albuquerque, because his car broke down, introducing himself to local editor Boot (Porter Hall) with a proposition, opening Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Toby Tyler (1960) -- (Movie Clip) When No One Else Would Have You! Orphan Kevin Corcoran (title character) having turned down a circus job offer from Tupper (Bob Sweeney), accepts a pass to that night’s show, then finds out from his uncle and aunt (Tom Fadden, Edith Evanson) that he should have skipped the parade, early in Disney’s Toby Tyler, 1960.

Rope (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Deserve Justice? From another of director Alfred Hitchcock’s disguised edits, Constance Collier with pianist David (Farley Granger) who with roommate Brandon (John Dall) has hidden murder victim David in the trunk, James Stewart as their old prep school teacher finally arriving, meeting Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick and Edith Evanson as the maid, in Rope, 1948.

Rope (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Think You Appreciate Me Having murdered a friend for fun, New Yorker Brandon (John Dall) springs an idea on less confident David (Farley Granger), regarding the trunk that holds the body, with director Alfred Hitchcock’s first disguised edit in his movie made to look like a single take, the loosely Loeb & Leopold-based, Edith Evanson their maid, in Rope, 1948.

Day The Earth Stood Still, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) What Other Terrors Can He Unleash? Klaatu (Michael Rennie), frustrated in his efforts to convene a meeting of world leaders, escaped from a military hospital, goes incognito in Washington, D.C., at a boarding house meeting Bobby (Billy Gray), his mom (Patricia Neal) and others, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.

I Remember Mama (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Will Not Laugh At Her! Norwegian immigrant Irene Dunne (title character) her husband (Philip Dorn) in support, threatens elder sisters (Edith Evanson, Hope Landin), with retaliation if they are unkind to fourth sister Trina (Ellen Corby), who has confided marriage plans, in George Steven’s I Remember Mama, 1948.

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