Edith Evanson (née Carlson; April 29, 1896 – November 29, 1980)[1][2][3] was an American character actress of film, stage and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Some of her other film roles include parts in Citizen Kane (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Woman of the Year (1942), Reunion in France (1942), The Strange Woman (1947), I Remember Mama (1948), Rope (1948), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Disney's Toby Tyler (1960).

During her time in Hollywood, she co-starred opposite some of its greatest legends, including Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Michael Rennie, Glenn Ford, Patricia Neal, James Stewart, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Hedy Lamarr.

[8] Evanson spent several months with Monroe, and spoke to her just days before the troubled actress's death.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Evanson found herself getting little work in Hollywood due to her advancing age; though she was credited with an appearance on Gunsmoke in 1964, playing “Nell”, an old senile housekeeper in the episode “Father’s Love” (S9E24) and in 1974 she made her last appearance in an episode of Apple's Way.