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Madge Evans
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Demure American leading lady Madge Evans was a professional from childhood. As an infant, she was featured in print ads as the "Fairy Soap girl." From 1915 through 1918, she was resident child actress of the World Film Company. During the early 1920s she kept busy as a ingenue, leaving films in 1924 to devote her time to the stage. Though her "official" return to films as an adult performer was 1931, Evans had earlier appeared as a saucy teenager in a 1929 Vitaphone short starring Walter Winchell. One of the best of MGM's second-echelon stars, Evans appeared in such "A"-pictures as Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935), as well as a larger number of "B"s along the lines of Death on the Diamond (1934).
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Before she became a cinema star, Madge Evans was a photographer's model. A cinema executive saw her pictured in an advertisement for Fairy Soap, got her a part in The Sign of the Cross. That was in 1914, when she was 5. Star of the picture was William Farnum. Madge Evans became the Shirley Temple of the silent cinema. When she was 10 her career, as such, was over.
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Dorothy Day (Madge Evans) ignores the 2-month bill of the milkman Jerry (Stuart Erwin) as she instructs her maid Mamie (Una Merkel) on how to serve guests. John Day (Richard Dix) lets his wife Dorothy keep an expensive evening gown on his birthday and accepts embroidered slippers from Mamie. The Days' two little kids are brought in to see the cake; but John is arrested for a shortage in his accounts at work. He can't pay bail, and Dorothy asks friends for help. George Hollins (Conway Tearle) hires a lawyer for a double-cross that results in John Day getting sentenced to two years in jail.
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In 1924, Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult.
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Gangster producer Legs Caffy (Nat Pendleton) wants to take chorus-girl Letty Morris (Madge Evans) to Atlantic City; she refuses to go and decides to take a bus to California to get away, but he joins her. Paul Porter (Robert Montgomery) escapes from prison and gets on the back of the bus after placing a car across the highway. He steals a blue suit from the suitcase of Hector Withington (Ted Healey). Letty sits next to Paul to get away from Legs, who learns that Paul is wanted and threatens to tell the police if Paul does not leave with Hector; but Hector decides to stay on the bus. Legs keeps Letty from getting money wired by firing the chorus girl who owes her $50. When Paul realizes that Hector got off the bus and must have found his prison uniform, he flees the bus and jumps on a moving train.
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Madge Evans now has a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An expert badminton player, she owns the largest collection of pajamas in Hollywood, prefers to sleep in a nightgown. Unmarried, she lives in a ten-room Spanish house with her mother and brother, likes practical jokes, plays golf constantly and poorly, is often seen with Tom Gallery, matchmaker for Hollywood's Legion Stadium. Healthy, talkative, blue-eyed, she studies in bed, considers The Little Duchess (1917) her best picture.
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