Child model and stage actress Evans was born in Manhattan, She made her professional debut at the age of six months, posing as an artist's model. 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 movie studio in Long Island, New York. 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. '' (1917) At the age of 8 in 1917, Evans appeared in the Broadway production of
Peter Ibbetson with
John Barrymore,
Radio and television Later, Evans worked in radio and television in New York City. She performed on
The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1950),
Studio One (1954),
Matinee Theater (1955), and
The Alcoa Hour (1956). She was also a panelist on the 1950s version of
Masquerade Party.
Personal life Evans married playwright
Sidney Kingsley, best known for his plays
Dead End and
Detective Story, In York Village, Maine, on July 25, 1939. The couple owned a estate in Oakland, New Jersey. Following her marriage to Kingsley, Evans left Hollywood and moved to this home in New Jersey.
Death Evans died at her home in Oakland, New Jersey, from cancer in 1981, aged 71. ==Filmography==