Dana Delany

But her main internet venue has been her Official Web Site (http://www.danadelany.com/), online since 1996, which includes a guestbook that she occasionally posts to, answering questions from her fans, and updating them on her life and work. Evans has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (TV, Movie, Song). Since the mid-1990s, she has participated in several online chat events promoting various projects. In addition to a series of successful TV shows, over 30 movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known songs "Happy Trails" and "The Bible Tells Me So". A rather unique facet to Dana's career is her presence on the internet. Her life inspired Evans to write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". Working with director Bob Saget, Dana starred in the TV movie For Hope (1996), based on Saget's sister Gay, who had died as a result of the disease. Rogers and Evans had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before her second birthday.

Since the mid-'90s, Dana has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation (http://www.srfcure.org/srf/index.htm), and with her friend Sharon Monsky, she helped campaign for support in finding a cure for scleroderma. Rogers and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946 until Rogers death in 1998. Dana also found time to get back to the stage, on and off Broadway, in Translations (1995 - Broadway), Dinner With Friends (2000 - New York City, Los Angeles, Boston), and Much Ado About Nothing (2003 - San Diego). Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Thus, she focused on roles in TV series, such as the shortlived Pasadena (2001) and Presidio Med (2002); TV movies like True Women (1997), Resurrection (1999), A Time to Remember (2003) and Baby for Sale (2004); and feature films by indie film producers, such as The Outfitters (1999), and Spin (2003). Evans married Roy Rogers on New Years Eve 1946. The latter part of the 1990s and early 2000s showed Dana's preference for projects that challenged her. This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios.

This resulted in her being one of the few to be mentioned by name in the Animaniacs theme song. During her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage "brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr. animated productions of Superman in the 1990s. After beginning her career singing at the radio station where she was employed as a secretary, Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and big band singer which lead to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. Dana provided voice-over work as Lois Lane in the Warner Bros. She married her accompianist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935. Dana took on controversial roles such as Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart(1995), Mistress Lisa in the 1994 feature film adaptation of the Anne Rice book Exit to Eden, and a gun-owning mother in an episode of the TV series Family Law (1999) (which was not rerun, due to sponsorship withdrawal). She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930's to promote her singing career.

Leveraging this newfound fame, Dana appeared in feature films such as Light Sleeper (1992), Housesitter (1992), and Tombstone (1993), and TV movies such as Promise to Keep (1991), and Wild Palms (1993). Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from him in 1933. The significant break for Dana occurred when she was cast as Colleen McMurphy on China Beach, airing from 1988 to 1991, bringing intense media attention to the actress. at 15. The next few years consisted of small parts in various films and TV guest spots, including 3 notable episodes on Magnum P.I. and an appearance on Moonlighting (TV series).. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. Her early TV work included As the World Turns and Love of Life, then going on to perform in A Life on Broadway in 1980. Fox at 14.

After growing up in Connecticut, Dana attended Phillips Academy in Andover, then Wesleyan University. Evans had a tumultuous early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas F. Known mainly for her 2-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show China Beach (1988-1991), Dana Delany has been an actress in films, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Lucille Wood Smith name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith famous as Dale Evans (31 October 1912 - 7 February 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956 in New York City, New York) is an American film, stage, and television actress.