Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes

  • Birthday: 1916-11-20
  • Deathday: 2008-07-04
  • Place of birth: Port Arthur, Texas, USA
  • Also know as: Evelyn Louise 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.

Filmography

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950

As Sheila Bennet

A Thousand and One Nights

1945

As The Genie

The Thrill of Brazil

1946

As Vicki Dean

One Big Affair

1952

As Jean Harper

Renegades

1946

As Hannah Brockway

The Prowler

1951

As Susan Gilvray

The Jolson Story

1946

As Julie Benson

Before I Hang

1940

As Martha Garth

The Face Behind the Mask

1941

As Helen Williams

Hell's Half Acre

1954

As Donna Williams

99 River Street

1953

As Linda James

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

1941

As Bette Logan

Iron Man

1951

As Rose Warren Mason

Johnny O'Clock

1947

As Nancy Hobson

Mr. Soft Touch

1949

As Jenny Jones

Dangerous Blondes

1943

As Jane Craig

Rough Shoot

1953

As Cecily Paine

Top Of The World

1955

As Virgie Rayne

The Mating of Millie

1948

As Millie McGonigle

Sons of the Legion

1938

As Linda Lee

There's Something About a Soldier

1943

As Carol Harkness

Strange Affair

1944

As Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison

Smuggler's Island

1951

As Vivian Craig

It Happened in Paris

1952

As Patricia Moran

Beyond the Sacramento

1940

As Lynn Perry

Mrs. Mike

1949

As Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan

Nine Girls

1944

As Mary O'Ryan

The Seven Year Itch

1955

As Helen Sherman

Flight Lieutenant

1942

As Susie Thompson

The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942

As Ruth Morley

Enchantment

1948

As Grizel Dane

The Desperadoes

1943

As Allison McLeod

Sudden Money

1939

As Mary Patterson

A Return to Salem's Lot

1987

As Mrs. Axel

Biography - Humphrey Bogart

0000

As Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife

The Lady in Question

1940

As Francois Morestan

Gone with the Wind

1939

As Suellen O'Hara

Wicked Stepmother

1989

As Witch Instructor

Slightly Honorable

1939

As Miss Vlissingen

Union Pacific

1939

As Mrs. Calvin

Men with Wings

1938

As Nurse

Paris Honeymoon

1939

As Village Girl (uncredited)

Artists and Models Abroad

1938

As Girl (uncredited)

The Buccaneer

1938

As Madeleine

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