Joan Evans

Joan Evans

Born: July 18, 1934
Died: October 21, 2023
in New York, New York, USA
Joan Evans (July 18, 1934 - October 21, 2023) was an American film actress.

Her first film was Roseanna McCoy, based on the real-life romance between two members of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. She gained the role after producer Samuel Goldwyn conducted a national talent search. She was only fourteen years old when she started work on Roseanna McCoy and her parents added two years to her age so she could claim to be sixteen when the film was released.

Movies for Joan Evans...

The Walking Target
Title: The Walking Target
Character: Gail Russo
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An ex-con finds unexpected romance with the widow of his former accomplice as he tries to collect his hidden loot.
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Title: The Chevy Mystery Show
Character: Blanche
Released: May 29, 1960
Type: TV
The Chevy Mystery Show is an American television anthology series featuring a different mystery each week that aired on NBC in 1960 as a summer replacement.
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The Flying Fontaines
Title: The Flying Fontaines
Character: Jan Fontaine
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.
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No Name on the Bullet
Title: No Name on the Bullet
Character: Anne Benson
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
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A Strange Adventure
Title: A Strange Adventure
Character: Terry Dolgin
Released: August 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Judy Polsen
Released: August 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
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Column South
Title: Column South
Character: Marcy Whitlock
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
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It Grows on Trees
Title: It Grows on Trees
Character: Diane Baxter
Released: September 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
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Skirts Ahoy!
Title: Skirts Ahoy!
Character: Mary Kate Yarbrough
Released: May 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Jill Bradley
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems
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Edge of Doom
Title: Edge of Doom
Character: Rita Conroy
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Our Very Own
Title: Our Very Own
Character: Joan Macaulay
Released: July 27, 1950
Type: Movie
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
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Roseanna McCoy
Title: Roseanna McCoy
Character: Roseanna McCoy
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.