#madge evans

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Madge Evans in THE MAYOR OF HELL (1933, dir. Archie Mayo)

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Elsa Lanchester (The Bride of Frankenstein, Bell Book & Candle)—we love cleft chin rep for women! gorgeous but in a way that made her stand out, and she should have been a leading lady much more than she ended up being. her turn in bride of frankenstein is iconic

Madge Evans (The Mayor of Hell, Lovers Courageous)— Because she's typically seen as "the nice girl" I think people tend to overlook her, but when I first saw her in The Mayor of Hell (1933) and thought she brought a lot of depth than that to her character. She plays a nurse who repeatedly stands up to the corrupt, bullying warden of a reform school. She's fierce, determined, and outspoken, even though she risks losing her job. While her character is essentially powerless to change things and turns to an outsider for aid, I could never think of her as weak or useless. Because really it's only because she's a woman that she doesn't get to be the hero of the piece (not for lack of trying, as it were).

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Elsa Lanchester:

The ultimate vintage weird girl crush!! Her performance in Bride of Frankenstein is captivating and iconic and mostly done with eyes (although she doubles as Mary Shelley at the start, which is also very sexy of her). Also she’s in a film where she tries to assassinate Hitler (it’s not great but she’s great in it, and that’s frankly iconic). Also the first few sentences of the ‘early life’ section of her Wikipedia are fascinating: Her parents were bohemian socialists who rejected traditional Edwardian marriage, and her brother owned a puppet company. Coming from that of course she was gonna be an icon.

“I found it rather glamorous to be a bastard.” -Elsa Lanchester

She is just so pretty??? Her eyes and face structure is both very beautiful, but also lends to her expressions

she's always so delightful and funny in every role she turns up in <3 I love her in witness for the prosecution, I love her in the inspector general, i love her in bride of frankenstein! funny astute adept always! (and neil gaiman's personal hot woman crush)

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Madge Evans 1932, photo by George Hurrell

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Madge Evans

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Madge Evans in The Mayor of Hell (Archie Mayo, 1933)

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Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans in Robert Z. Leonard’s LOVERS COURAGEOUS (1932) #DailyMontgomery

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Pre-Code Hollywood Actresses. MADGE EVANS

Madge Evans (born Margherita Evans; July 1, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American theater and film actress. She began her career as an actress and child model. Working for MGM in the 1930s, Madge appeared in Dinner at Eight (1933), Broadway to Hollywood (1933), Hell Below (1933) and David Copperfield (1935). In 1933, Madge starred alongside James Cagney in the melodrama The Mayor of Hell. Other notable films she appeared in are Beauty for Sale (1933), Grand Canary (1934), What Every Woman Knows (1934) and Pennies From Heaven (1936).

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Lovers Courageous (1932) Robert Z. Leonard

November 9th 2024

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the way they're both straight up crying but he's still trying to pull silly faces. proof dedication to the bit is always the most important thing

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Fast Life (1932)  

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Director: Harry A. Pollard

Cinematographer: Harold Wenstrom

Performers: Madge Evans & William Haines

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Madge Evans

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Madge Evans

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Madge Evans

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Screen Play, November 1930s, Madge Evans

Scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads of the 30s".