Evalyn Knapp

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-06-17 (73 years old)

Deathday

1981-06-12

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Evalyn Knapp

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Evalyn Knapp (June 17, 1906 – June 12, 1981) was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s, and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movie serial actress in the 1930s. Born as Evelyn Pauline Knapp in Kansas City, Missouri in 1906, Knapp started acting in silent films, her first role being in the 1929 film At The Dentist's. In 1932, Knapp was one of fourteen girls, including Ginger Rogers and Gloria Stuart, selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars". Knapp achieved success in cliffhanger serials, which were popular at the time. She played the title character in the 1933 serial The Perils of Pauline. One...

Acting

1932

This Sporting Age

as Mickey Steele

1933

His Private Secretary

as Marion Hall

1935

One Frightened Night

as The Fake Doris Waverly

1931

Smart Money

as Irene Graham

1932

High Pressure

as Helen Wilson

1933

Air Hostess

as Kitty King

1932

1941

1935

Confidential

as Maxine Travers

1932

A Successful Calamity

as Peggy Wilton

1938

Rawhide

as Peggy Gehrig

1933

Perils of Pauline

as Pauline Hargrave

1934

In Old Santa Fe

as Lila Miller

1933

Corruption

as Ellen Manning

1935

1931

The Millionaire

as Barbara Alden

1936

Bulldog Edition

as Randy Burns

1936

Three of a Kind

as Barbara Penfield

1933

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Sally Patter

1931

Side Show

as Irene

1935

The Fire-Trap

as Betty Marshall

1932

Madame Racketeer

as Alice Hicks

1930

River's End

as Miriam

1938

Wanted by the Police

as Kathleen Murphy

1932

The Night Mayor

as Doree Dawn

1932

Slightly Married

as Mary Smith

1933

State Trooper

as June Brady

1934

Speed Wings

as Mary Stuart

1934

A Man's Game

as Judy Manners

1933

The Vanishing Frontier

as Carol Winfield

1931

Taxi!

as Actress in Movie Clip (uncredited)

1930

1939

Idiot's Delight

as Nurse #4

1930

Mothers Cry

as Jenny Williams

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Reporter (uncredited)

1938

Hawaiian Buckaroo

as Paula Harrington

1930

1940

Girl in 313

as Arrested Girl

1931

50 Million Frenchmen

as Miss Wheeler-Smith

1932

Big City Blues

as Jo-Jo (uncredited)

1941

1940

1933

Police Car 17

as Helen Regan

1936

Laughing Irish Eyes

as Peggy Kelly

1931

The Bargain

as Vorencia

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