ACTRESS Evans Evans has died at the age of 91.
She was the wife of the late director, John Frankenheimer.
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They got married on December 13, 1963 and remained a couple until John’s death on July 6, 2002.
Evans was most famous for playing Velma Davis, a kidnap victim, in the 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde.
According to her obituary, Evans died on June 16, 2024, in Sherman Oaks, California.
Additional details on her cause of death were not listed.
She was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on November 26, 1932.
Before her big break in Bonnie and Clyde, Evans starred in numerous TV shows including The Donna Reed Show, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Evans was also a three-time Broadway star in the productions of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Distant Bell, and The 49th Cousin.
She had an uncredited role as Mrs. Randolph in John’s 1966 movie, Grand Prix, and in his 1989 film, Dead Bang.
BONNIE AND CLYDE
Evans starred in Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Wilder, who also made his big screen debut in the film.
They played two young lovebirds that noticed that Eugene’s (Gene) car was being stolen by hoodlums.
Eugene and Velma were standing on their front porch kissing as this happened.
They took off after the thieves, but thought better of it and turned around.
However, the thieves, Bonnie (Faye Dunaway), Clyde (Warren Beatty), turned around and chased them.
Bonnie and Clyde kidnap the couple, but they turn out to have a good time, laughing at jokes told and ordering take-out.
The couple is then kicked out of the car, as Eugene reveals he is an undertaker, which upsets the death-obsessed Bonnie.
OTHER WORK
Although Bonnie and Clyde was the biggest film Evans starred in, she does have credits in over 25 films and shows.
She played Hedy in the 1962 film, All Fall Down, and Elizabeth in 1973’s Story of a Love Story.
Evans stared in The Iceman Cometh, Prophecy, Dead Bang, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? from 1973 to 1994.
There are no acting credits for her after 1994.
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