Evelyn Varden
Mae Evelyn Hall
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Emerging from a Cherokee family in Adair, Oklahoma, Varden entered the performing world as a teenager, touring the West with a troupe led by her aunts before debuting on Broadway at sixteen. Though her early stage work was modest, the 1930s brought prominent supporting parts, most famously Mrs. Gibbs in the original Our Town and later the Nurse in a celebrated Romeo and Juliet starring Olivia de H…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
