Background
She was born in Seneca, South Dakota.
She was born in Seneca, South Dakota.
Evelyn appeared on Broadway in the following plays:
The Shrike as "Ann Downs" (January 15, 1952 – May 31, 1952)
Craig"s Wife (February 12, 1947 – April 12, 1947) (revival)
The Rich Full Life (November 9, 1945 – December 1, 1945)
Angel Street as "Bella Manningham" (December 5, 1941 – December 30, 1944)
All of the four plays were made into films, but Evelyn did not appear in any of them. She did appear in other films, probably most memorably as "Mission Lonelyhearts", the lonely alcoholic spied on by James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock"s Rear Window. In 1956, Evelyn played the role of Nancy Lynnton in George Stevens" Giant.
She also had a brief but strong performance as Queen Mother Taia in Michael Curtiz"s The Egyptian, and was featured with Vincent Price in The Tingler (1959).
In the fall of 1958, Evelyn guest starred as Clara Keller, a lonely widow who falls prey to communist agents in the episode "Manitoba in the Moon" of Bruce Gordon"s short-lived Cold War docudrama, Behind Closed Doors. On September 3, 1939, she and her fiancé, Canadian radio producer Andrew Allan, survived the sinking of the Anchor-Donaldson liner Steamship Athenia.
The Athenia was the first British passenger liner to be sunk by a German submarine in World World War World War II
Evelyn died from cancer, in New York City, on May 7, 1967. She was 58 years old.
She was interred at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New New York