Bonnie and Clyde actress Evans Evans has died aged 91.
The Hollywood movie star was best known for playing a kidnap victim Velma Davis in the 1967 blockbuster alongside Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
A public obituary confirmed she sadly passed away on Sunday (June 16) but no other further information was available. Evans was the widow of director John Frankenheimer.
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The two tied the knot on December 13, 1963, and remained married until his death on July 6, 2002. After a string of single appearances TV shows as The Donna Reed Show, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Evans was cast in Bonnie and Clyd as Velma Davis.
She shared scenes with on-screen partner Gene Wilder in his big screen debut, as they portrayed two young lovebirds who, while kissing on their front porch, notice that a group of hoodlums is stealing Eugene’s car.
Eugene and Velma take off after the thieves but change their minds at which point the thieves – who happen to be Bonnie, Clyde and the rest of the Barrow Gang, playfully turn and give pursuit.
The outlaws kidnap the initially terrified couple, but soon all involved are having a good old time, driving, ordering take-out burgers, and laughing (or not) at the stale jokes of Buck Barrow. played Gene Hackman.
At one point, Velma shocks Eugene Grizzard by blurting her true age – 33. The lark soon comes to an abrupt halt when Eugene mentions that he is an undertaker, a disclosure that upsets the death-obsessed Bonnie.
The excursion ends on a melancholy note as a panicked looking Bonnie demands that the young couple be kicked out of the car and left standing, with their burgers, on the side of some dark, distant road.
After she appeared in the movie, Evans landed small roles in a handful of projects through the 1970s and, in 1989, she starred in Dead Bang, a film directed by her husband Frankenheimer.
Evans also appeared on Broadway three times in the late 1950s and early 1960s in shows such as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Distant Bell The 49th Cousin.
Following the sad news about Evans’ death, fans have taken to social media to remember the star, with one fan writing on X, formerly known as Twitter,” RIP Evans Evans” and another posting: “Heartbreaking news about Evans Evans.”
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