Evelyn Keyes
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
Credits
- 2003 · Biography - Humphrey Bogart as Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
- 2003 · Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Self
- 1998 · Glorious Technicolor as Self
- 1990 · Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream as Self
- 1989 · Wicked Stepmother as Witch Instructor
- 1989 · John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self
- 1987 · Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist as Self
- 1987 · A Return to Salem's Lot as Mrs. Axel
- 1985 · Amazing Stories as Evelyn Chumsky
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Edna
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Wanda Polaski
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Sister Emily
- 1968 · A Matter of Diamonds as Mrs. Panzack
- 1956 · Around the World in Eighty Days as Paris Tart
- 1955 · The Seven Year Itch as Helen Sherman
- 1955 · Top of the World as Virgie Rayne
- 1954 · Climax! as Drusilla Cayley
- 1954 · Hell's Half Acre as Donna Williams
- 1953 · 99 River Street as Linda James
- 1953 · Rough Shoot as Cecily Paine
- 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 · Smuggler's Island as Vivian Craig
- 1950 · The Killer That Stalked New York as Sheila Bennet
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Jane
- 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 The Genie
- 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 · Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 as
- 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 Vlissingen
- 1939 · Union Pacific as Mrs. Calvin
- 1939 · Sudden Money as Mary Patterson
- 1939 · Gone with the Wind as Suellen O'Hara
- 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
- 1938 · The Buccaneer as Madeleine