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Evalyn Knapp

Evalyn Knapp

 

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 of her better known film roles was opposite Ken Maynard in the 1934 film In Old Santa Fe. Her career flourished through 1941, but slowed afterward. In 1943, she played her last role, which was uncredited, in Two Weeks To Live, starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff in one of the Lum and Abner films.

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Movies Starring Evalyn Knapp (44)

Roar of the Press (1941)

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists. ...

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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder. ...

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Meat and Romance (1940)

A young doctor and his home economics expert sister teach us about the benefits of meat. ...

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Girl in 313 (1940)

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks? ...

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Sauce for the Gander (1940)

Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the household than women. When he ar ...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption. ...

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Idiot's Delight (1939)

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII. ...

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Wanted by the Police (1938)

A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket. ...

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Rawhide (1938)

Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ...

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Hawaiian Buckaroo (1938)

Cowboys live amidst Hawaiian scenery and song. ...

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Bulldog Edition (1936)

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affecti ...

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Three of a Kind (1936)

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society. ...

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Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)

An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting. ...

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The Fire-Trap (1935)

An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvaluing a decrepit warehouse and its contents and burning the building to the ground. ...

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Confidential (1935)

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate. ...

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Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures. ...

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One Frightened Night (1935)

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and procl ...

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In Old Santa Fe (1934)

Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the ...

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A Man's Game (1934)

During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme. ...

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Speed Wings (1934)

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilo ...

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Perils of Pauline (1933)

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it. ...

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Police Car 17 (1933)

Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop. ...

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Dance, Girl, Dance (1933)

Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She winds up heartbroken, pregnant and broke when Joe runs off with the magician's sexy assistant. Sally bravely ...

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Corruption (1933)

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him. ...

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His Private Secretary (1933)

Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay. ...

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The Vanishing Frontier (1933)

Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly ret ...

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State Trooper (1933)

Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to ...

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Air Hostess (1933)

A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot. ...

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Slightly Married (1932)

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married. ...

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Big City Blues (1932)

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed. ...

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A Successful Calamity (1932)

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, ...

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This Sporting Age (1932)

Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. ...

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The Night Mayor (1932)

Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal roc ...

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Madame Racketeer (1932)

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daugh ...

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting. ...

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Fireman, Save My Child (1932)

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time w ...

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Taxi! (1932)

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the wom ...

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High Pressure (1932)

Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber... ...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots' (1931)

Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shooting a golf instruction film. Louise Fazenda however has no knowledge of golf and her ongoing commentary d ...

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Side Show (1931)

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps. ...

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The Bargain (1931)

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake. ...

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Smart Money (1931)

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events. ...

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The Millionaire (1931)

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly. ...

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50 Million Frenchmen (1931)

Wealthy Jack bets friend Michael he can woo Lu Lu without money within 2 weeks. Michael hires inept detectives to stop Jack, leading to comedic misadventures as Jack pursues Lu Lu while hiding his penniless state. ...

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