---
name: "Evelyn Varden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/evelyn-varden"
fi1m_id: "evelyn-varden"
imdb_id: "nm0889537"
tmdb_id: 30538
wikidata_id: "Q3061390"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 June 1893"
died: "11 July 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T08:47:16.021104+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Evelyn Varden

## Identity

Evelyn Varden

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/evelyn-varden
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** evelyn-varden
- **IMDb ID:** nm0889537
- **TMDB ID:** 30538
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3061390
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Varden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3061390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889537/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30538

Actor. Born 12 June 1893 in Adair, Oklahoma, USA. Died 11 July 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 June 1893, Adair, Oklahoma, USA
- **Died:** 11 July 1958
- **Also known as:** Mae Evelyn Hall
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Varden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3061390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889537/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30538

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*The Night of the Hunter*](https://film.one/film/the-night-of-the-hunter.md) (91)

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## Biography

Evelyn Varden, born Mae Evelyn Hall, was an American character actress who worked in theatre, film, radio and television. She made her Broadway debut at the age of sixteen in 1910 and appeared in more than thirty Broadway productions, including the original 1938 production of Thornton Wilder’s *Our Town* as Mrs Gibbs.

Varden did not begin appearing in films until 1949, when she was 56, with a role in *Pinky*. Her best-known screen performance was as the storekeeper Icey Spoon in *The Night of the Hunter* (1955). She recreated her stage role as Monica Breedlove in the 1956 film of *The Bad Seed* and appeared in other films including *Désirée* (1954) and *Athena* (1954). She also had television roles, among them an episode of *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*.

She died in New York City on 11 July 1958, shortly after receiving a critics’ award for her performance in the London production of *Roar Like a Dove*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Night of the Hunter* (1955), Fi1m 91, as Icey Spoon — [page](https://film.one/film/the-night-of-the-hunter.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ten Thousand Bedrooms* (1957), as Countess Alzani
- *The Bad Seed* (1956), as Monica Breedlove
- *Hilda Crane* (1956), as Mrs. Burns
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Mrs. Cordelia Welles
- *The Night of the Hunter* (1955), as Icey Spoon — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-night-of-the-hunter.md)
- *Désirée* (1954), as Marie
- *Athena* (1954), as Grandma Mulvain
- *The Student Prince* (1954), as Queen
- *Phone Call from a Stranger* (1952), as Sallie Carr
- *Finders Keepers* (1952), as Ma Kipps
- *Elopement* (1951), as Millie Reagan
- *Stella* (1950), as Flora
- *When Willie Comes Marching Home* (1950), as Gertrude Kluggs
- *Pinky* (1949), as Melba Wooley

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