List of the best Edith Evanson movies: Rope(1948), Toby Tyler(1960), The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951), It Happens Every Thursday(1953), The Clown and the Kid(1961), Woman of the Year(1942), Shane(1953), Desiree(1954), Reunion in France(1942), You Gotta Stay Happy(1948), Madame Bovary(1949), Singapore(1947) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
80 Minutes
Mrs. Wilson
James Stewart John Dall Farley Granger Joan Chandler Cedric Hardwicke Constance Collier Edith Evanson Douglas Dick Dick Hogan
murderer best friend guest girlfriend professor dark creative offbeat tense apartment manhattan big city murder philosophy nihilism evil party evil plot quest wretched excess
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1960
96 Minutes
Aunt Olive
Kevin Corcoran Henry Calvin Gene Sheldon Barbara Beaird James Drury Richard Eastham Edith Evanson Tom Fadden Dennis Olivieri Bob Sweeney Ollie Wallace
chimpanzee circus performer orphan man foster father foster mother charming madcap touching circus family home jail running away deception friendship animal taming coming of age family adventure escape
Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
92 Minutes
Michael Rennie Patricia Neal Hugh Marlowe Sam Jaffe Billy Gray Frances Bavier Lock Martin Frank Conroy Carleton Young Fay Roope Edith Evanson
alien robot scientist single mother son powerful inspiring engaging washington, d.c. earth cold war aliens morality discovery sacrifice 1950s
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Loretta Young John Forsythe Frank McHugh Edgar Buchanan Palmer Lee Harvey Grant Jimmy Conlin Jane Darwell Gladys George Regis Toomey Willard Waterman
pregnant wife husband reporter real estate agent farmer neighbor witty amusing new york city california small town newsroom moving culture clash newspapers small business small-town life publicity stunts love quest
A New York couple takes over a small town newspaper.
Drama
USA
1961
65 Minutes
John Lupton Michael McGreevey Don Keefer Mary Webster Mary Adams Peggy Stewart Barry Kelley Ken Mayer Charles G. Martin Victor French James Parnell
When a clown dies, his small son forms a circus act with an escaped convict. The latter falls in love with the amusement park owner.
Comedy
USA
1942
112 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Spencer Tracy Fay Bainter Reginald Owen Minor Watson William Bendix Gladys Blake Dan Tobin Roscoe Karns William Tannen Ludwig Stossel
reporter father mother refugee playful witty newsroom baseball field family home love-hate relationship ambition sexism love rise transformation 1940s
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Western
USA
1953
118 Minutes
Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Brandon de Wilde Jack Palance Ben Johnson Edgar Buchanan Emile Meyer Elisha Cook Jr. Douglas Spencer John Dierkes
gunslinger farmer wife son bad guy gripping tender moving wyoming small town farm family forbidden love land wars justice sacrifice rivalry love 1880s
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.
Drama, History
USA
1954
110 Minutes
Marlon Brando Jean Simmons Merle Oberon Michael Rennie Cameron Mitchell Elizabeth Sellars Charlotte Austin Cathleen Nesbitt Evelyn Varden Isobel Elsom John Hoyt
napoleon bonaparte mistress military officer melodramatic passionate france paris palace forbidden love romance military life napoleonic wars forbidden love wretched excess 18th century
The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.
War
USA
1942
104 Minutes
Joan Crawford John Wayne Philip Dorn Reginald Owen Albert Basserman John Carradine Ann Ayars J. Edward Bromberg Moroni Olsen Henry Daniell Arthur Space
socialite fiancé munitions maker pilot resistance fighter tense patriotic melodramatic paris family home factory countryside nazi collaboration nazi occupation love triangle deception world war ii undercover operations discovery escape
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Romance
1948
100 Minutes
James Stewart Joan Fontaine Eddie Albert Roland Young Willard Parker Percy Kilbride Porter Hall Marcy McGuire Arthur Walsh William Bakewell Paul Cavanagh
Experiencing a change of heart on her wedding night, a socialite (Joan Fontaine) decides to find a companion more interesting than her husband.
Romance
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Van Heflin Louis Jourdan James Mason Christopher Kent Gene Lockhart Frank Allenby Gladys Cooper John Abbott Harry Morgan George Zucco
wife husband doctor lawyer wealthy man disheartening emotional hedonistic sultry france small town adultery ambition love wealth marriage love fall temptation wretched excess
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Adventure
USA
1947
79 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Ava Gardner Roland Culver Richard Haydn Thomas Gomez Spring Byington Porter Hall George Lloyd Maylia Lal Chand Mehra H.T. Tsiang
After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancee who now has amnesia.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
1950
96 Minutes
Eleanor Parker Agnes Moorehead Hope Emerson Ellen Corby Betty Garde Jan Sterling Lee Patrick Jane Darwell Gertrude Michael Joan Miller Marjorie Crossland
robber warden matron prisoner mother dark brutal fiery melodramatic prison cell infirmary prison life murder pregnancy illegitimate child mother/child relationship sadism fall metamorphosis
An innocent (Eleanor Parker) lands in a women's prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn (Hope Emerson).