Muriel Evans
Muriel Evans (actually Muriel Adele Evanson, born July 20, 1910 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; † 26 October 2000 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Muriel Evans was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants in Minneapolis. Just two months after her birth her father died. To find a job her mother moved to California with the baby. She found work at the First National Studios. Muriel spent her afternoons on the backlot. Soon, a studio employee was aware of them. He introduced her to the director Robert Z. Leonard, who gave her a small role in the movie Mademoiselle Modiste. Muriel attended high school and continued to play minor roles in the theater and in silent films.
1929 interrupted Muriel to end her acting career at the school. In the same year she married the manufacturer's son Michael Cudahy and moved to Europe with him. In 1931, Muriel decided to go back to the movie. She left her husband and returned to Hollywood. There, she signed a contract with MGM. Their marriage was divorced in 1932.
Muriel played on the side of Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in several short comedies. With her pleasant voice, she had no difficulty in the transition from silent to sound film. From the mid- 1930s, it has continuously been used in Western. Your film partners have included John Wayne, Tom Mix, Tex Ritter, William Boyd and Buck Jones.
1936 Muriel married the theater Agent Marshal Worchester. Four years later she was tired of the film industry and withdrew. With her husband, she moved to Washington DC. During the following ten years she performed in radio shows and on TV. 1951 the couple moved back to Hollywood. Muriel did not return to film. In Tarzana they bought a plot of land.
After her husband died in 1971, Muriel Evans worked as a volunteer nurse in a sanatorium for filmmakers in Woodland Hills. After a heart attack in 1994, she moved even in the sanatorium. At the age of 90 years, she died there of complications from colon cancer.