‘Bonnie and Clyde’ actress Evans Evans dead at 91
nypost.comobituary. Additional details around her cause of death were not disclosed. Born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on November 26, 1932, Evans was married to “The Manchurian Candidate” director John Frankenheimer from 1963 until his 2002 death from a stroke at age 72.
Evans also went by the name Evans Frankenheimer. She appeared in his 1966 movie, “Grand Prix,” and in his 1989 film, “Dead Bang.” During a 2016 interview with Criterion, she opened up about going on the press tour with her husband for “The Manchurian Candidate,” which was controversial at the time it came out. “I didn’t realize why they were so happy to have me there; I got stuck going to all these women’s television interview shows, which were big all over the country,” she said. “Those and ladies clubs things I’d spent my life avoiding!
It was sort of interesting, though, talking about the movie and all the people in it, et cetera. We got very good at it.”Her career spanned five decades, but she was best known for playing kidnap victim Velma Davis in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” starring Warren Beattty and Faye Dunaway.
In the movie, her character is kissing her boyfriend, Eugene (played by Gene Wilder in his big-screen debut), when they notice thieves stealing his car.
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