Evangeline Frances Russell (August 18, 1902 – February 22, 1966) was an American actress known for her work in silent Westerns of the 1920s. She was the daughter of actor John Lowell Russell and screenwriter

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. Her brother was Academy Award–nominated cinematographer John L. Russell.

Biography

Russell was born in Manhattan to actor John Russell Lowell and screenwriter

. She had a brother, John L. Russell, who became a cinematographer. She was noted as an expert horsewoman and race car driver. She pursued a career as an actress in Westerns, often playing the wife of characters played by her father (in scripts written by her mother). Her credits include films like ''The Isle of Sunken Gold'', ''The Big Show'', and ''Lost in a Big City''. She was something of a method actor; she recounted trying to harden her feet by walking barefoot for six weeks in preparation for a role in 1927's '' Hawk of the Hills''. Russell was married at least five times; her husbands included director

William P.S. Earle William Pitt Striker Earle (December 28, 1882 – November 30, 1972) was an American director of the silent film era. He attended Columbia University and worked for a time as a photographer before breaking into the movie business by sneaking o ...

(her final husband), producer

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, Roy Wayne, actor Carey Harrison, and rancher Raymond Claymore; she divorced him when she found out he was "a full-blooded Indian". She had two children with Harrison, neither of whom were interested in the family business. After Blackton (whose fortune was lost in the

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) died in a car accident in 1941, she fell on hard times, taking on work as a babysitter, stuntwoman, extra, and taxi driver to supplement her income and support her children. She died in Los Angeles in 1966; she was survived by Earle and her two children, Frank and Elizabeth, from her marriage to Harrison.

Filmography

* ''

Lost in a Big City ''Lost in a Big City'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by George Irving and starring John Lowell, Charles Byer and Jane Thomas.Munden p.452 Cast * John Lowell as Harry Farley * Baby Ivy Ward as Florence * Jane Thomas as Helen * ...

'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1924) * ''

It Might Happen to You ''It Might Happen to You'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Billy Mason, Dorris Dare and William Harcourt.Connelly p.367 Cast * Billy Mason as J. Worthington Butts Jr. * Dorris Dare as Dolly Bender ...

'' (1925, short) * '' Red Love'' (1925) * '' The Big Show'' (1926) * '' Married?'' (1926) * '' The Isle of Sunken Gold'' (1927) * '' Hawk of the Hills'' (1927) * ''Hawk of the Hills'' (1929)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Evangeline 20th-century American actresses American film actresses Actresses from New York City 1902 births 1966 deaths Western (genre) film actresses American silent film actresses