~Evelyn Pierce~
Born: February 5, 1907 in Del Rio, Texas, USA Died: August 9, 1960 (age 53) in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
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The Girl Friend (1935) ... Chorus Girl in Play (uncredited)
Love Me Forever (1935) ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Men of the Hour (1935) ... Secretary (uncredited)
Death Flies East (1935) ... Waitress (uncredited)
Carnival (1935) ... Girl (uncredited)
I'm a Father (Short) (1935)
Broadway Bill (uncredited) (1934)
Monkey Business (1931) ... Manicurist (uncredited)
An American Tragedy (1931) ... Bertine Cranston (uncredited)
Once a Gentleman (1930) ... Natalie
The Million Dollar Collar (1929) ... Mary French
Sonia (1928)
Tenderloin (1928) ... Bobbie
The Border Cavalier (1927) ... Anne Martin
Don't (1925) ... Marian Jenkins
Excuse Me (1925) ... Bit Role (uncredited)
Pronounced "the most beautiful girl in the world" by no less an authority than Florenz Ziegfeld, brunette
Evelyn Pierce danced around the calf in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923). She eventually
got a contract with Metro and was voted a 1925 Wampas Baby Star, but Pierce's sole screen career was
spent in B-Westerns with Fred Humes and as one of Rin Tin Tin's many forgettable leading ladies. To
conquer sound, she played in stock with her husband Robert Allen, but as Allen's own screen career took
an upswing, Evelyn settled into becoming a housewife. Robert Allen's stint as a singing cowboy did not
survive the 1930s, however, and the couple turned their attentions to real-estate dealing, eventually
retiring to a Georgian mansion on New York's Long Island.
Biography by Hans J. Wollstein, AllMovie.com
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