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Occupation
  
Actress

Children
  
Pablo Huston

Role
  
Film actress

Name
  
Evelyn Keyes

Years active
  
1938–1993


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Full Name
  
Evelyn Louise Keyes

Born
  
November 20, 1916 (
1916-11-20
)

Cause of death
  
uterine cancer and Alzheimer's disease

Partner(s)
  
Michael Todd (1953–1956)

Died
  
July 4, 2008, Montecito, California, United States

Spouse
  
Artie Shaw (m. 1957–1985)

Books
  
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood

Movies
  
Similar People
  
Tom Ewell, Ann Rutherford, Artie Shaw, Barbara O'Neil, Butterfly McQueen

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Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

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Early life

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Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents. As a teenager, Keyes took dancing lessons and performed for local clubs such as the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Film career

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A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed a minor role in Gone with the Wind (1939), that of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen.

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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 (1946). 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.

Personal life

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She was married to Barton Oliver Bainbridge Sr. from 1938 until his death from suicide in 1940. Later, she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943–1945), actor/director John Huston (23 July 1946 – February 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957–1985). Keyes said of her many relationships, "I always took up with the man of the moment and there were many such moments." While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Her autobiography, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life In and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977. Keyes expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film. She also wrote of the personal cost she paid by having an abortion just before Gone with the Wind was to begin filming, as the experience left her unable to have children. Among the many Hollywood affairs she recounted in Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister were those with producer Michael Todd (who left Evelyn for Elizabeth Taylor), Glenn Ford, Sterling Hayden, Dick Powell, Anthony Quinn, David Niven and Kirk Douglas. She had to fend off Harry Cohn's advances during her career in Columbia.

Keyes was a registered Democrat who supported the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Filmography

Actress
1985
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) as
Wanda Polaski / Sister Emily / Edna
- Dead to Rights (1993) - Wanda Polaski
- Old Habits Die Hard (1987) - Sister Emily
- Sticks and Stones (1985) - Edna
1989
Wicked Stepmother as
Witch Instructor
1987
A Return to Salem's Lot as
Mrs. Axel
1986
Amazing Stories (TV Series) as
Evelyn Chumsky
- Boo! (1986) - Evelyn Chumsky
1983
The Love Boat (TV Series) as
Mrs. Parker
- Bricker's Boy/Lotions of Love/The Hustlers (1983) - Mrs. Parker
1971
From a Bird's Eye View (TV Series) as
Mrs. Beal
- The Matchmakers (1971) - Mrs. Beal
1968
The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) as
Mrs. Blair
- Visitors from a Strange Planet (1968) - Mrs. Blair
1968
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) as
Mrs. Panzack
- A Matter of Diamonds (1968) - Mrs. Panzack
1956
Around the World in 80 Days as
Tart - Paris
1955
Climax! (TV Series) as
Drusilla Cayley
- Wild Stallion (1955) - Drusilla Cayley
1955
The Seven Year Itch as
Helen Sherman
1955
Top of the World as
Virgie Rayne
1954
Hell's Half Acre as
Donna Williams
1953
99 River Street as
Linda James
1953
Shoot First as
Cecily
1952
It Happened in Paris as
Patricia Moran
1952
One Big Affair as
Jean Harper
1951
Iron Man as
Rose Warren Mason
1951
The Prowler as
Susan Gilvray
1951
Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) as
Jane
- Wild Geese (1951) - Jane
1951
Smuggler's Island as
Vivian Craig
1950
The Killer That Stalked New York as
Sheila Bennet
1949
Mrs. Mike as
Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
1949
Mr. Soft Touch as
Jenny Jones
1948
Enchantment as
Grizel Dane
1948
The Mating of Millie as
Millie McGonigle
1947
Johnny O'Clock as
Nancy Hobson
1946
The Jolson Story as
Julie Benson
1946
The Thrill of Brazil as
Vicki Dean
1946
Renegades as
Hannah Brockway
1945
A Thousand and One Nights as
Babs
1944
Strange Affair as
Jacqueline 'Jack' Harrison
1944
Nine Girls as
Mary O'Ryan
1943
There's Something About a Soldier as
Carol Harkness
1943
Dangerous Blondes as
Jane Craig
1943
The Desperadoes as
Allison McLeod
1942
Flight Lieutenant as
Susie Thompson
1942
The Adventures of Martin Eden as
Ruth Morley
1941
Ladies in Retirement as
Lucy
1941
Here Comes Mr. Jordan as
Bette Logan
1941
The Face Behind the Mask as
Helen Williams
1940
Beyond the Sacramento as
Lynn Perry
1940
Before I Hang as
Martha Garth
1940
The Lady in Question as
Francois Morestan
1939
Slightly Honorable as
Miss Vlissigen
1939
Gone with the Wind as
Suellen - Their Daughter
1939
Union Pacific as
Mrs. Calvin
1939
Sudden Money as
Mary Patterson
1939
Paris Honeymoon as
Village Girl (uncredited)
1938
Artists and Models Abroad as
Girl (uncredited)
1938
Sons of the Legion as
Linda Lee
1938
Men with Wings as
Nurse (uncredited)
1938
Dangerous to Know as
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1938
The Buccaneer as
Madeleine
Soundtrack
1946
The Jolson Story (performer: "California, Here I Come", "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)", "She's a Latin from Manhattan", "About a Quarter to Nine" - uncredited)
Thanks
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (TV Movie documentary) (thanks)
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Video documentary) (special thanks)
Self
2004
The Ultimate Film (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2003
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Actress and John Huston's Ex-Wife
- Humphrey Bogart (2003) - Self - Actress and John Huston's Ex-Wife
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Video documentary) as
Self - Actress
2001
Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1999
E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Harry Cohn (1999) - Self
1999
The Lady with the Torch (Documentary) as
Self (voice)
1998
Glorious Technicolor (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1998
The DeMille Dynasty (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Actress
1996
Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- What Price Hollywood? (1996) - Self
- Let's Make Love (1996) - Self
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1996) - Self
1977
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
Self - Guest / Self
- Jay Leno (guest host), Spike Lee, Jack Palance, Evelyn Keyes, Gerardo (1991) - Self - Guest
- Charles Nelson Reilly/Norm Crosby/Evelyn Keyes/Janelle Commissiong (1977) - Self
1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (TV Movie documentary)
1990
Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1988
Going Hollywood: The War Years (Documentary) as
Self
1988
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (Documentary) as
Self
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1988
The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special) as
Self
1987
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1987
Our World (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Gone with the Wind: Making of a Classic- (1987) - Self - Interviewee
1985
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (Documentary) as
Self
1983
Good Morning America (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 8 February 1983 (1983) - Self
1977
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) as
Self - Actress
- Episode #17.13 (1977) - Self - Actress
1964
Missing Links (TV Series) as
Self
- Evelyn Keyes/Tom Poston/Nipsey Russell (1964) - Self
1950
All Star Revue (TV Series) as
Self - Actress
- Host: Jack Carson; Guests: Mary McCarty, Evelyn Keyes, Betty & Jane Kean, Joe Miller (1950) - Self - Actress
1948
Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (Short) as
Self
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (Documentary short) as
Self - Premiere Attendee (uncredited)
Archive Footage
2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Memorial Tribute
2009
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - In Memoriam
2007
A Tribute to Rudy Wissler (Short) as
Julie Benson
2007
20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) as
Helen Sherman
- Sexiest Movie Moments (2007) - Helen Sherman (uncredited)
1954
Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (Short) as
Self
1948
Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards (Short) as
Self

References

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