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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). 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 Barrymore's daughter in MGM's 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.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)

Matinee Theater

The Alcoa Hour

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lux Video Theatre
as Sylvia

Your Show of Shows

Studio One

The Philco Television Playhouse
as Elizabeth Bennet

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

The Tunnel
as Ruth McAllan

Men Without Names
as Helen Sherwood

Calm Yourself
as Rosalind Rockwell

Age of Indiscretion
as Maxine Bennett

David Copperfield
as Agnes Wickfield as a Woman

Helldorado
as Glenda Wynant

What Every Woman Knows
as Lady Sybil Tenterden

Death on the Diamond
as Frances Clark

Paris Interlude
as Julie

Grand Canary
as Lady Mary Fielding

Stand Up and Cheer!
as Mary Adams

The Show-Off
as Amy Fisher Piper

Fugitive Lovers
as Letty Morris

Dinner at Eight
as Paula Jordan

Day of Reckoning
as Dorothy Day

Broadway to Hollywood
as Anne Ainsley

Beauty for Sale
as Letty Lawson

The Mayor of Hell
as Dorothy Griffith

Hell Below
as Joan

The Nuisance
as Dorothy Mason

Made on Broadway
as Claire

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
as June Marcher

Fast Life
as Shirley

Huddle
as Rosalie

Are You Listening?
as Laura O'Neil

The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Polaire

Lovers Courageous
as Mary Blayne

West of Broadway
as Anne

Heartbreak
as Countess Vima Walden

Guilty Hands
as Barbara 'Babs' Grant

Sporting Blood
as Miss 'Missy' Ruby

Son of India
as Janice

Envy
as Helen
The Bard of Broadway
Classmates
as Sylvia

On the Banks of the Wabash
as Lisbeth

Home Wanted
as Madge Dow

Three Green Eyes
as Child

Love Net
as Patty Barnes
The Power and the Glory
as Deanie Consadine
Neighbors
as Clarissa Leigh

The Golden Wall
as Madge Lathrop

Stolen Orders
as Ruth Le Page - as a child

True Blue
as Ruth, as a Child