 Evanson spent several months with Monroe, and spoke to her just days before the troubled actress's death.In the late 1960s and early 1970s Evanson found herself getting little work in Hollywood due to her advancing age; in 1974 she made her last appearance in an episode of "Apple's Way".Evanson was a lifelong Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.