R.I.P. Joan Evans

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She signed her first film contract in 1948 at age 14 to work with producer Samuel Goldwyn.

While doing reshoots, she was accidentally shot in the arm by Farley Granger. His gun discharged and she need emergency surgery and hospitalization.

It might be helpful to know the name of the film on which she was injured. It was her first film, Roseanna McCoy, in which she had the title role opposite Farley Granger who played Johnse Hatfield in the western about the legendary feud between the Hatfields and McCoys.

Her next two films were also with Granger, who played the fiancé of her sister, Ann Blyth, in Our Very Own and a mentally disturbed priest killer in Edge of Doom with Dana Andrews as the priest.

Her parents were playwrights/screenwriters who were friends with Joan Crawford who became her godmother. She married her car dealer husband against her parents' objections in Crawford's home in 1952, the year her mother wrote The Star for Crawford's nemesis, Bette Davis.

Her only other film of note was 1959's No Name on the Bullet opposite Audie Murphy. Her last credit was as a guest star in TV's Laramie in 1961.

She later became a magazine editor and an acting teacher while raising her two children. In an atypical Hollywood manner, her marriage lasted longer than her career. She stayed married to her husband until his death.

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Joan Evans Died

10/21/23 Actress in "On the Loose" & "Skirts Ahoy" Was 89 (Deadline)

By Bruce Herring 10/28/23

Joan Evans, an actress who was the goddaughter of Joan Crawford, died Oct. 21 in Henderson, Nevada, according to her son, John Weatherly. No cause was given.

During her career, she worked with the likes of Farley Granger, Audie Murphy, Irene Dunne, and Esther Williams, among many others.

Among her film roles were parts in On the Loose (1951), It Grows on Trees (1952); and Skirts Ahoy! (1952).

She signed her first film contract in 1948 at age 14 to work with producer Samuel Goldwyn.

While doing reshoots, she was accidentally shot in the arm by Farley Granger. His gun discharged and she need emergency surgery and hospitalilzation.

Evans later appeared in such films as The Outcast (1954), A Strange Adventure (1956), The Flying Fontaines (1959) and The Walking Target (1960), and on TV shows including Climax!, The Millionaire, Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Wagon Train, Zorro, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Tall Man and Laramie.

She stopped acting in the early 1960s to raise a family, but later became an editor of Hollywood Studio Magazine and a teacher at the Carden Academy in Van Nuys.

Survivors include her son, John Weatherly, a daughter, Dale, and a grandson, Chris.