Madge Evans

Personal Info

Birthday

July 1, 1909

Day of Death

1981-04-26

(71 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Margherita Evans

Madge Evans Kingsley

Margherita "Madge" Evans

Madge Evans

Biography

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.