Evelyn Sherman(1882-1974)
- Actress
Evelyn Sherman was born 1882 in Nashua,Iowa to Dana and Carrie Sherman
Spear. Her parents were from Vermont & Massachusettes and lived in
Iowa. Evelyn was born Eva Mae Spear and according to the 1900 U.S.
census was still living at home but by 1910 she had married a Richard
Allison and become a silent film actress.She made films in NYC until
moving to California about 1922 where she remained for the rest of her
career.She was listed in the various almanacs of Motion Picture
actresses but nothing after 1937 when her name disappears from all the
directories. Her daughter wrote me her mothers life was "rich one
year,starving the next",a very hard life".Her granddaughter told me
Evelyn was a fiesty woman who turned down work she should have accepted
and regretted it later. Evelyn died in Glendale in 1974.Her only
daughter Jane(1907-2001) flirted with acting very briefly and her
granddaughter is a hypnotherapist in California.