Edith Evanson
Edith Evanson ( born April 28, 1896 in Tacoma, Washington; † November 29, 1980 in Riverside County, California ) was an American character actress.
Life and career
Edith Everson was born as the daughter of a Protestant priest with English and German roots. The church remained connected long in her entire life. Your first found employment as Steneotypistin at court. Go to movie acting, she found, however, only at the age of 44 years. Mostly, she was seen in supporting roles in the role of spinster, often as a housekeeper, secretary or aunt. Edith Evanson joined it on the side great actors like Greer Garson, Joan Crawford, James Stewart and Spencer Tracy. She played her best known role in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Rope as a housekeeper Mrs. Wilson, sixteen years later, a further cooperation with Hitchcovk in Marnie. She stepped from the 1950s, in addition to in television series such as Lassie and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. George Cukor brought Evanson to practice with Marilyn Monroe Swedish accent for her movie Something's Got to Give. They practiced for several months until a few days before Monroe's death together.
By 1974, Everson worked in a total of around 120 film and television productions. In numerous theater productions, she took over in addition to her film work, greater responsibilities. Since she had no immediate family more at her death and was never married, she bequeathed her fortune to the Protestant Church and the Democrats, whose followers she was his life.