Trivia

In 1959, at age 9, she disappeared from her Los Angeles home and was feared kidnapped. But it turned out she had booked a flight to Washington, D.C., herself, and boarded the airplane unaccompanied. When she was taken off the plane at Baltimore, she said she'd wanted to visit First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, whom she had met previously, at the White House to ask her help to "get me a part in a TV series".

During her appearance on You Bet Your Life, she mentioned that she could speak German and relayed a joke told by Groucho to her Austrian partner.

Co-artistic director and playwright-in-residence of Santa Monica Playhouse (October 2002)

Former child star on television.

She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Eloise (1956) at the age of seven, one of the youngest performers ever nominated at the time.

Paul Coates was quoted in a Los Angeles Evening Mirror News column (Nov. 10, 1959): "Evelyn Is a real old-hand at drum beating. This Mamie Eisenhower routine, I'm convinced, was strictly another one of her publicity schemes.".