[6] In the following year McKenna took the role of Eliza in a professional-amateur rendition of Pygmalion at Cathedral Hall, Fitzroy.
[10] McKenna won the Logie Award for Best Singer in March 1961 for her work on In Melbourne Tonight and The Graham Kennedy Show (title of national version).
[17] On one of her visits to Australia she performed, "Just You Wait" (from My Fair Lady), on In Melbourne Tonight in December 1966.
[26] In October 1963 McKenna married American actor, folk singer and performer Timothy Evans.
[2] Evans had gained an engineering degree at University of Texas, however he took up folk singing as a member of the Wanderers Three.
[28][29] Elaine McKenna Evans died on 6 January 1992 and was survived by her spouse, Tim and their three children.