Evelyn Ankers

EVELYN ANKERS d1985. British-American actress who often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s. Known as "the Queen of the Bs", she starred in films including ; The Wolf Man (1941) / The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) / Captive Wild Woman (1943) / Son of Dracula (1943) / The Mad Ghoul (1943) / Jungle Woman (1944) / Weird Woman (1944) / The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) and The Frozen Ghost (1945). She appeared in ; Hold That Ghost (1941) / Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) / His Butler's Sister (1943) / The Pearl of Death (1944) / Pardon My Rhythm (1944) / Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) and played Calamity Jane in The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950), one of many movies for which she received top billing. A frequent screen partner was Lon Chaney Jr, although they privately disliked each other. She died in Hawaii aged 67 on August 29th 1985