She did appear in other films, including the role as Miss Lonelyhearts, the lonely alcoholic in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.

She had a brief performance as Queen Mother Taia in Michael Curtiz's The Egyptian and was featured with Vincent Price in The Tingler (1959), her last film role.

"[9] On September 3, 1939, Evelyn and her then-fiancé, Canadian radio producer Andrew Allan (the two never married), survived the sinking of the Anchor-Donaldson liner SS Athenia.

The Athenia was the first British passenger liner to be torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in World War II.

Mr. Allan's elderly father died in the aftermath of the disaster, when the lifeboat the three of them were in was accidentally sunk by a rescue ship.