Born in Manhattan,[3] Madge Evans was featured in print ads as the "Fairy Soap girl" when she was two years old.

Evans posed in a mother and child tableau with Anita Stewart, then 16, for an Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company calendar, and as the little mountain girl in Heidi of the Alps.

At the age of 8 in 1917, Evans appeared in the Broadway production of Peter Ibbetson with John Barrymore,[4] Constance Collier and Laura Hope Crews.

In 1960, for Evans' contribution to the motion picture industry, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1752 Vine Street.

[5] In York Village, Maine, on July 25, 1939, she married playwright Sidney Kingsley,[6] best known for his plays Dead End and Detective Story.

Evans performed on the The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1950), Studio One (1954), Matinee Theater (1955), and The Alcoa Hour (1956).