Edith Evanson
Nascimento : 1896-04-28, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Morte : 1980-11-29
História
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Edith Evanson (née Carlson; April 29, 1896 – November 29, 1980) was an American actress of film, character and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
She was born in Tacoma, Washington, where her father was a Protestant church clergyman (a religion to which she adhered throughout her life). Her first job was as a court reporter in Bellingham.
On March 15, 1923, she married Morris Otto Evanson (1893-1975). The couple had no children
Her first film role came in The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) in an uncredited role. In the 1940s she was in supporting roles mostly as a maid, a busybody, landladies, or middle-aged secretaries. Some of her other film roles include parts in Citizen Kane (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Woman of the Year (1942), Reunion in France (1942), The Strange Woman (1947), I Remember Mama (1948), Rope (1948), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Disney's Toby Tyler (1960). During her time in Hollywood, she co-starred opposite some of its greatest legends, including Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Michael Rennie, Glenn Ford, Patricia Neal, James Stewart, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Hedy Lamarr.
With the coming of television in the late 1940s she expanded in her career appearing on such shows as You Are There, The Loretta Young Show, Chevron Hall of Stars, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, The Millionaire, Zane Grey Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Frank Sinatra Show, Bachelor Father, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, and Lassie.
Following her retirement, she lived in Riverside, California, until her death from heart failure on November 29, 1980. Her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
Self (archive footage)
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.
Woman in Police Station (uncredited)
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
Newsstand Proprietor (uncredited)
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
Rita
Marnie é uma mulher perturbada psicologicamente que vai trabalhar para Mark Rutland e tenta roubá-lo. Só que Mark acaba casando com ela e tenta ajudá-la a curar sua doença, confrontando o seu passado.
Lisabetta, the landlady
O filme reúne três contos de Nathaniel Hawthornes: A Experiência do Dr. Heidigger: Alex Medbourne e Carl Heidigger são amigos e, após uma tempestade, encontram o corpo inalterado da ex-noiva de Carl morta há 38 anos. Eles suspeitam que um líquido misterioso fosse o responsável pela conservação do corpo. Juntos planejam usar o líquido para ressuscitá-la. A Filha de Rappaccini: Em Pádua, o jovem Giovanni Guasconti se apaixona pela bela Beatrice, a filha de Rappaccini, um eminente cientista. Porém, Giovanni só pode vê-la da varanda da sua casa, pois Beatrice não permite que ele vá até seu jardim. A Casa dos Sete Telhados: Na Nova Inglaterra, em 1691, vários inocentes foram executados, acusados de bruxaria. Os responsáveis foram os membros da família Pyncheon, que assim tomaram as terras dos acusados e aumentaram seu poder.
The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with mysterious wanderer Peter (John Lupton), and the two strangers become close friends and partners until a closely guarded secret rips them apart.
Aunt Olive
Irritado com seu tio, Toby Tyler foge de seu lar adotivo para se juntar ao circo, onde logo se torna amigo de Mr. Stubbs, um chimpanzé brincalhão. No entanto, o circo não é somente diversão e jogos, quando o malvado vendedor de doces, Harry Tupper, o convence de que sua tia e tio não o amam ou o querem volta. Toby se resigna a vida no circo até descobrir as mentiras de Tupper sobre seus tios.
Innkeeper
As aventuras da expedição liderada pelo Professor Linderbrook rumo ao centro da Terra. Também são membros do grupo um estudante de astronomia Alec e a viúva de um colega. Perigos como sequestro, morte, sabotagem preparada por um explorador rival, entre outros, espreitam pelo caminho.
Lottie (uncredited)
The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.
Stella
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
Josie (uncredited)
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Belle Dowdy
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
Queen Hedwig
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Mrs. Fine
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
Selma Parker
O policial durão Dave Bannion enfrenta o sindicato do crime politicamente poderoso. Dave Bannion é um policial honesto investigando uma gangue cruel que ele suspeita ter influência sobre a força policial. Bannion é alertado após o suicídio de um colega e o silêncio suspeito de seus colegas policiais o leva a acreditar que eles estão na folha de pagamento dos gângsteres. Quando uma bomba destinada a ele mata sua esposa, Bannion se torna uma furiosa força de vingança e justiça, auxiliado ao longo do caminho pela rejeitada namorada do gângster, Debby. Quando Bannion e Debby caem cada vez mais na armadilha traiçoeira e brutal do mundo do crime, eles devem usar todos os meios necessários (incluindo assassinato) para chegar à verdade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Mrs. Shipstead
Shane entra no meio de um conflito entre o criador de gado Ryker e um grupo de colonos, dentre eles os Starretts, cuja terra Ryker quer. Quando Shane espanca Chris, um capanga de Ryker, Ryker tenta comtratá-lo. Em seguida, Shane e Joe Starrett enfrentam toda a gang de Ryker. Então Ryker envia para Cheyenne o pistoleiro profissional Wilson. Ficamos sabendo da relação de Shane com Marian, a esposa de Joe. Shane deverá eliminar todas as armas do vale antes que possa montar seu cavalo e ir embora, com o pequeno Joey gritando "Shane... Shane... Volte!"
Miss Banks
Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters.
Mrs. Crockett, landlady
Uma nave espacial pousa em Washington DC trazendo o alienígena Klaatu e seu robô Gort. Eles trazem um ultimato aos líderes da Terra para que acabem com as guerras e a corrida armamentista, o que estaria preocupando os habitantes de outros planetas. Logo no desembarque, Klaatu é baleado por um soldado que o julgava inimigo. É levado a um hospital, onde se cura rapidamente e recebe a visita do secretário de Estado dos Estados Unidos, a quem pede ajuda do presidente para organizar uma conferência de líderes mundiais. O secretário encaminha sua proposta ao governo, que a rejeita.
Miss Deverich (uncredited)
Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), é um repórter que aceita um emprego num pequeno jornal do Novo México. O trabalho é bastante monótono, até que ele encontra um homem preso numa mina. Ele vislumbra a possibilidade de, ao prolongar a permanência do mineiro dentro dos escombros, a chance de se tornar famoso.
Mrs. Barrett
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle
Annie Gough
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Mrs. Willecombe (uncredited)
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Miss Barker (uncredited)
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Mrs. Castleman
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Mary Travers
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
Mrs. Racknell
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Mrs. Wilson
Dois amigos (Farley Granger e John Dall) caçadores de aventura estrangulam seu colega de classe e organizam uma festa para a família e amigos da vítima, servindo refeições em uma mesa que na verdade é um baú que guarda o cadáver dele. Quando a conversa do jantar gira em torno do assassinato perfeito, o ex-professor (James Stewart) fica cada vez mais desconfiado que seus alunos converteram suas teorias intelectuais em uma realidade brutal.
Aunt Sigrid
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
Sarah
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Mrs. Barnes
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Rose's Assistant
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Mr. Cowperwaithe's Secretary (Uncredited)
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Mrs. Coggins
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.
Mrs. Ward (Uncredited)
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
Louise Harper
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.
Helga, Ludwig's wife
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Genevieve
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
June's Maid
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Hilda
Connie Ward está no sétimo céu quando a banda de Gene Morrison chega à cidade. Ela é arrebatada pelo trompetista Bill Abbot. Depois de se casar com ele, ela se junta à turnê da banda e aprende sobre a vida como uma esposa de orquestra, resistindo aos ataques maliciosos das outras esposas da banda.
Alma
Tess e Sam trabalham no mesmo jornal e não gostam muito um do outro. Pelo menos na primeira vez, porque eles acabam se apaixonando e se casando. Mas Tess é uma mulher muito ativa e uma das feministas mais famosas do país; ela é ainda eleita como "A Mulher do Ano". Por estar ocupada o tempo todo, ela se esquece de como ser realmente uma mulher e Sam começa a se sentir negligenciado.
Hilda
Este drama biográfico do diretor Mervyn LeRoy mereceu uma indicação ao Oscar de melhor filme por retratar com grande sensibilidade a vida da engajada dona de casa Edna Gladney (Greer Garson). Após passar por amargas experiências de vida, ela se casa com o texano Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). O casal tem um filho, que morre precocemente. Ao mesmo tempo, Edna descobre que não poderá ter outra criança e assim decide se dedicar a algo para preencher sua vida. Ao observar que o tratamento dado às crianças órfãs e abandonadas não é exatamente o que poderia chamar de terno, ela abre uma casa de adoção e encaminha as crianças a lares onde possam ter uma vida digna.
Leland's Nurse (uncredited)
Charles Foster Kane foi um menino pobre que acaba se tornando um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. O filme inicia com a sua morte, momentos antes da qual pronuncia a palavra "Rosebud". Após dias de sensacionalismo em cima da notícia de sua morte, o jornalista Jerry Thompson é enviado por seu chefe para investigar a vida de Kane, a fim de descobrir o sentido de sua última palavra, a qual ninguém sabia. Entrevistando pessoas do passado de Kane, o jornalista mergulha na vida de um homem solitário, que desde a infância é obrigado a seguir a vontade alheia. Ninguém a seu redor importa-se com Kane, que busca por meio da aquisição de bens a adoração das pessoas. Ao final, Thompson, após a exaustiva investigação da vida de Kane através de entrevistas, se vê incapaz de descobrir o significado da palavra, concluindo que "Charles Foster Kane foi um homem que possuiu tudo o que quis e depois perdeu tudo. Talvez Rosebud seja algo que ele nunca tenha possuído ou algo que tenha perdido".
Anna
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Hannah
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
