Evelyn Keyes
Biography
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.
Acting (54 movies)
Gone with the Wind
1939
The Seven Year Itch
1955
The Prowler
1951
The Jolson Story
1946
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
Enchantment
1948
Before I Hang
1940
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
Hell's Half Acre
1954
Ladies in Retirement
1941
99 River Street
1953
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003
Johnny O'Clock
1947
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
Iron Man
1951
Dangerous Blondes
1943
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
The Lady in Question
1940
Flight Lieutenant
1942
Rough Shoot
1953
One Big Affair
1952
Slightly Honorable
1939
Glorious Technicolor
1998
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Top of the World
1955
The Mating of Millie
1948
Renegades
1946
Sons of the Legion
1938
Men with Wings
1938
Artists and Models Abroad
1938
Sudden Money
1939
Paris Honeymoon
1939
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
The Thrill of Brazil
1946
Union Pacific
1939
Strange Affair
1944
Wicked Stepmother
1989
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
Smuggler's Island
1951
The Desperadoes
1943
It Happened in Paris
1952
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
Mrs. Mike
1949
Beyond the Sacramento
1940
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
1987
Nine Girls
1944
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
The Buccaneer
1938
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Dangerous to Know
1938
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