Evelyn Ankers

Evelyn Felisa Ankers (August 17, 1918 – August 29, 1985) was a British-American actress who often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) opposite Lon Chaney Jr., a frequent screen partner.

[1]: 54 Ankers' stage debut came in Colombia at age 10 when she had the title role in The Daughter of Dolores.

She appeared in Hold That Ghost (1941), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), His Butler's Sister (1943), The Pearl of Death (1944), Pardon My Rhythm (1944), Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), and played Calamity Jane in The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950), one of many movies for which she received top billing.

Ankers made over fifty films between 1936 and 1950, then retired from movies at the age of 32 to be a housewife.

Ten years later she made her last film, No Greater Love (1960),[1]: 72  with her husband Richard Denning.

Ankers and Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man (1941)
Ankers in 1945 Yank Army magazine pin-up
Skip Homeier and Ankers in a General Electric Theatre television episode (1954)