Evelyn Varden

Acting

Evelyn Varden

Born 1893-06-12 · Adair, Oklahoma, USA

Acting credits

The Night of the Hunter poster
7.9

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

The Night of the Hunter

1955

The Bad Seed poster
7.1

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

The Bad Seed

1956

Désirée poster
6.6

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Désirée

1954

Athena poster
5.8

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

Athena

1954

Phone Call from a Stranger poster
6.4

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.

Phone Call from a Stranger

1952

Pinky poster
7.1

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Pinky

1949

Ten Thousand Bedrooms poster
5.6

In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

1957

When Willie Comes Marching Home poster
6.9

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

When Willie Comes Marching Home

1950

Hilda Crane poster
6.9

After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.

Hilda Crane

1956

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star poster
7.5

A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

1991

The Student Prince poster
6.3

A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.

The Student Prince

1954

Elopement poster
8.3

Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

Elopement

1951

Finders Keepers poster
10.0

A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot

Finders Keepers

1952

Stella poster
9.0

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

Stella

1950