Madge Evans

Madge Evans (July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American film actress who began her career as a child performer and model. She possessed classical features and reddish-yellow hair. Evans was featured in print ads as the "Fairy Soap girl" as an infant. She made her professional debut at the age of six months, posing for artist's models. As a youth, her playmates included Robert Warwick, Holbrook Blinn, and Henry Hull. When she was four years ol... more

Madge Evans (July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American film actress who began her career as a child performer and model. She possessed classical features and reddish-yellow hair. Evans was featured in print ads as the "Fairy Soap girl" as an infant. She made her professional debut at the age of six months, posing for artist's models. As a youth, her playmates included Robert Warwick, Holbrook Blinn, and Henry Hull. When she was four years old, Evans was featured in a series of child plays produced by William A. Brady. She worked at the old Long Island, New York movie studio. Her success was immediate, so much so that her mother loaned her daughter's name to a hat company. Evans posed in a mother and child tableau with Anita Stewart, then 16, for an Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company calendar, and as the little mountain girl in Heidi of the Alps. At the age of 8 in 1917, Evans appeared in the Broadway production of Peter Ibbetson with John Barrymore, Constance Collier and Laura Hope... less