Edith Evans

Evans was knighted as a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1946. Illeana Douglas is her grand-daughter. From then until 1977, she made several acclaimed films, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Whisperers (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), Tom Jones (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Slipper and the Rose, The Nun's Story, The Chalk Garden (nominated for Best Supporting Actress), The Madwoman of Chaillot, Crooks and Coronets and Nasty Habits. In 1950 she ran for the United States Senate, but was defeated by Richard Nixon in a race considered by her supporters to be a prototypical smear campaign. Born in London, she began a film career in 1915, but was noted mostly for her stage work until she appeared in the 1949 film The Last Days of Dolwyn. In the 1940s she enterered politics, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California for two terms. Dame Edith Mary Evans (February 8, 1888 - October 14, 1976) was a British actress. Gahagan starred in one Hollywood movie, She, in 1935, playing The Ice Goddess ("She who must be obeyed").

She became a well known star on Broadway in the 1920s. In 1931 she married actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan was born in Boonton, New Jersey.
Helen Gahagan in the 1920s. She was also known as The Pink Lady.

Helen Gahagan (25 November 1900 - 28 June 1980) was a United States actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) a politician.