Judith Evelyn

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Judith Evelyn, 1941.

Judith Evelyn , actually Judith Evelyn Morris (born March 20, 1909 in Seneca , South Dakota , † May 7, 1967 in New York City ) was an American stage, series and film actress .

Life

Judith Evelyn, costumed for a performance of Anton Chekhov's drama The Seagull as Irina Arkadina (photo by Carl van Vechten , 1954)

Judith Evelyn was born Evelyn Morris in the US state of South Dakota , but grew up in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . In 1932 she made her bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba , followed by her master's the following year. On September 3, 1939, Evelyn survived the sinking of the British ocean liner Athenia in the North Atlantic , killing 112 people. The Athenia was the first passenger ship to be sunk by a German submarine during World War II . She was on board with her fiancé, Canadian radio producer Andrew Allan, and his father, Protestant clergyman Rev. William Allan. Evelyn had stayed in London for theater rehearsals , but now, like thousands of others, fled Europe before the war . Evelyn and her fiance survived on the keel of a smashed lifeboat and were rescued by the destroyer HMS Escort .

Evelyn began her acting career in the early 1940s, when she appeared in a new edition of the play Craig's Wife by the American playwright George Kelly from 1925. They also played in Joseph Kramm play The Shrike and in the US version of Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight ( Gaslight ). All three pieces were later successfully filmed, but Evelyn did not take part in any of the film productions.

Evelyn was later seen in several movies, including as Marie Corbin in Otto Preminger's The 13th Letter (1951). It is a new edition of the thriller The Raven (1943) by Henri-Georges Clouzot . Her internationally best known screen appearance is the supporting role of the lonely alcoholic Miss Lonelyhearts in Alfred Hitchcock's film thriller The Window to the Courtyard (1954) with Grace Kelly and James Stewart . In the same year she was seen in Michael Curtiz 'monumental film Sinuhe the Egyptians as Queen Mother Teje . Two years later she appeared alongside James Dean in George Stevens Giants . She played the role of Nancy Lynnton, mother of Elizabeth Taylor's character Leslie Lynnton. The following year she starred in Joan Crawford's comeback film in The Beach House (director: Joseph Pevney ). In 1959, Evelyn starred alongside Vincent Price in the horror film Scream When Tingler Comes .

In 1958, she took on the role of Clara Keller in Bruce Gordon's short-lived docudrama television series Behind Closed Doors , which set against the backdrop of the Cold War . Also in the 1950s, she appeared twice in the Alfred Hitchcock Presented series , as Amelia Verber in Guilty Witness (1955) and as Mabel McKay in Martha Mason, Movie Star (1957).

Judith Evelyn died on May 7, 1967, at the age of 58, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City of complications from cancer . She was on the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla ( Westchester County interred), New York.

Stage plays

  • Angel Street (1941-45) as Bella Manningham, British original title Gas Light
  • The Rich Full Life (1945) as Lou Fenwick
  • Craig's Wife (1947) as Harriet Craig
  • The Shrike (1952) as Anne Downs
  • The Seagull (1954) as Irina Arkadina

Filmography

TV series (selection)

  • 1948: The Philco Television Playhouse
  • 1948: Martin Kane, Private Eye
  • 1951: Sure as Fate
  • 1950–1951: The Adventures of Ellery Queen
  • 1951-1953: Suspense
  • 1955: Private Secretary
  • 1955: Studio 57
  • 1956: Front Row Center
  • 1955/1957: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955/57)
Guilty Witness (1955)
Martha Mason, Movie Star (1957)
  • 1958: Behind Closed Doors
  • 1961: thriller
  • 1962: The Eleventh Hour

Web links

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