Evelyn Keyes

Known for ActingBorn 1916-11-20Died 2008-07-04Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 - July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes came out to Hollywood and was introduced to Cecil B. DeMille, who in her own words, “signed me to a personal contract without even making a test”. After a handful of B-movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed the role in Gone with the Wind, of Scarlett O'Hara's sister, Suellen. She was later interviewed for the 1988 documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind. Columbia Pictures signed her to a contract. In 1941, she played an ingenue in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. She spent most of the early 1940s playing leads in many of Columbia's B dramas and mysteries. She appeared as the female lead opposite Larry Parks in Columbia's blockbuster hit, The Jolson Story. She followed this up with an enjoyable minor screwball comedy, The Mating of Millie, with Glenn Ford. She was then in a 1949 role as Kathy Flannigan in Mrs. Mike. Keyes' last major film role was a small part as Tom Ewell's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which starred Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.Read more

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Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance

Beyond the Sacramento

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

It Happened in Paris

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Amazing Stories

Murder, She Wrote

Gone with the Wind

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

Glorious Technicolor

Sons of the Legion

ITV Playhouse

Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

The Seven Year Itch

One Big Affair

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Sudden Money

The Mating of Millie

99 River Street

The Prowler

Mr. Soft Touch

The Jolson Story

Around the World in 80 Days

Rough Shoot

Lux Video Theatre

Enchantment

The Lady in Question

Union Pacific

Top of the World

Dangerous to Know

The Face Behind the Mask

Ladies in Retirement

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

A Return to Salem's Lot

The Buccaneer

Johnny O'Clock

Dangerous Blondes

Flight Lieutenant

Iron Man

The Killer That Stalked New York

Before I Hang

The Thrill of Brazil

Strange Affair

A Thousand and One Nights

Mrs. Mike