Evelyn Keyes
Acting
Born 1916-11-20
Died 2008-07-04
Port Arthur, Texas, USA
63 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Murder, She Wrote
Climax!
Amazing Stories
Gone with the Wind
ITV Playhouse
Around the World in 80 Days
Lux Video Theatre
The Seven Year Itch
A Return to Salem's Lot
Union Pacific
Glorious Technicolor
The Prowler
Before I Hang
Nine Girls
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Iron Man
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
The Desperadoes
The Buccaneer
A Thousand and One Nights
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
The Mating of Millie
Dangerous to Know
Flight Lieutenant
99 River Street
Johnny O'Clock
Mr. Soft Touch
Wicked Stepmother
Artists and Models Abroad
The Killer That Stalked New York
Top of the World
Enchantment
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
The Face Behind the Mask
Men with Wings
The Jolson Story
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
The Lady in Question
Renegades
Ladies in Retirement
One Big Affair
Hell's Half Acre
The Thrill of Brazil
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Strange Affair
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Mrs. Mike
Sons of the Legion
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Slightly Honorable
Sudden Money
There's Something About a Soldier
Rough Shoot
Smuggler's Island
Beyond the Sacramento
Dangerous Blondes
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