Name
Evelyn Keyes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-11-20
Deathday
2008-07-04 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Port Arthur, Texas, USA
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.
Known For
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- 1939 Gone with the Wind as Suellen O'Hara
- 1955 The Seven Year Itch as Helen Sherman
- 1951 The Prowler as Susan Gilvray
- 1946 The Jolson Story as Julie Benson
- 1950 The Killer That Stalked New York as Sheila Bennet
- 1948 Enchantment as Grizel Dane
- 1940 Before I Hang as Martha Garth
- 1941 The Face Behind the Mask as Helen Williams
- 1954 Hell's Half Acre as Donna Williams
- 1941 Ladies in Retirement as Lucy
- 1953 99 River Street as Linda James
- 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Bette Logan
- 2003 Biography: Humphrey Bogart as Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
- 1947 Johnny O'Clock as Nancy Hobson
- 1949 Mr. Soft Touch as Jenny Jones
- 1951 Iron Man as Rose Warren Mason
- 1943 Dangerous Blondes as Jane Craig
- 1945 A Thousand and One Nights as Babs The Genie
- 1940 The Lady in Question as Francois Morestan
- 1942 Flight Lieutenant as Susie Thompson
- 1953 Rough Shoot as Cecily
- 1952 One Big Affair as Jean Harper
- 1939 Slightly Honorable as Miss Vlissingen
- 1998 Glorious Technicolor as Self
- 2003 Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Self
- 1955 Top of the World as Virgie Rayne
- 1948 The Mating of Millie as Millie McGonigle
- 1946 Renegades as Hannah Brockway
- 1938 Sons of the Legion as Linda Lee
- 1938 Men with Wings as Nurse
- 1938 Artists and Models Abroad as Girl (uncredited)
- 1939 Sudden Money as Mary Patterson
- 1939 Paris Honeymoon as Village Girl (uncredited)
- 1943 There's Something About a Soldier as Carol Harkness
- 1946 The Thrill of Brazil as Vicki Dean
- 1939 Union Pacific as Mrs. Calvin
- 1944 Strange Affair as Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
- 1989 Wicked Stepmother as Witch Instructor
- 1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden as Ruth Morley
- 1951 Smuggler's Island as Vivian Craig
- 1943 The Desperadoes as Allison McLeod
- 1952 It Happened in Paris as Patricia Moran
- 1968 A Matter of Diamonds as Mrs. Panzack
- 1988 John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self
- 1956 Around the World in 80 Days as Paris Tart
- 1949 Mrs. Mike as Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
- 1940 Beyond the Sacramento as Lynn Perry
- 1990 Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream as Self
- 1987 A Return to Salem's Lot as Mrs. Axel
- 1987 Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist as Self
- 1944 Nine Girls as Mary O'Ryan
- 1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self
- 1938 The Buccaneer as Madeleine
- 1941 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
- 1938 Dangerous to Know as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1985 Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got as Self
- 2000 Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance as Self
- 2020 Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests as Self (archive footage)
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Edna
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Jane
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Drusilla Cayley
- 1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Evelyn Chumsky
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Wanda Polaski
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Sister Emily
- 1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Panzack
