Evelyn Scott

Evelyn Scott may refer to:

Evelyn Scott (actress)

Evelyn Scott (April 20, 1915 - January 31, 2002) was an American film and TV actress. She was born in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Scott began her career as a disc jockey for KMPC. Her career as an actress started in 1952, guest starring in several shows, including Schlitz Playhouse, Gunsmoke, The Danny Thomas Show, Dragnet, Perry Mason, The Untouchables, and Bonanza. In the 1950s, Scott also played several supporting roles in movies.

In 1965, Scott landed the recurring role of Ada Jacks in the television series Peyton Place. She would play the role until the cancellation in 1969. She reprised the role in the daytime soap opera Return to Peyton Place, from 1972 to 1974. Her final appearance would be in 1985, yet again as Ada Jacks, in the television movie Peyton Place: The Next Generation.

Scott was also active as a board member of Portals House Inc., a center helping people with mental dysfunctions. She married Urban S. Hirsch Jr. in 1961 and stayed married to him until her death in 2002.

Evelyn Scott (writer)

Evelyn Scott (January 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion."

Her first husband was Cyril Kay-Scott, but she also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton.

Scott later married the English writer John Metcalfe.

She sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn.

Selected Works

'AFTER YOUTH

Oh, that mysterious singing sadness of youth! Exotic colors in the lamplit darkness of wet streets, Musk and roses in the twilight, The moon in the park like a golden balloon ...

Then to awaken and find the shadows fled, The music gone ... Empty, bleak! My soul has grown very small and shriveled in my body. It no longer looks out. It rattles around, And inside my body it begins to look, Staring all around inside my body, Like a crab in a crevice, Staring with bulging eyes At the strange place in which it finds itself.'