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.
61 acting credits
Acting · 61
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Climax!
1954
Amazing Stories
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
Gone with the Wind
1939
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
The Seven Year Itch
1955
The Desperadoes
1943
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
The Prowler
1951
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Union Pacific
1939
Wicked Stepmother
1989
Enchantment
1948
Iron Man
1951
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
Before I Hang
1940
Nine Girls
1944
Hell's Half Acre
1954
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
Flight Lieutenant
1942
Dangerous Blondes
1943
The Buccaneer
1938
Johnny O'Clock
1947
The Jolson Story
1946
Mrs. Mike
1949
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
99 River Street
1953
The Mating of Millie
1948
Men with Wings
1938
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
Rough Shoot
1953
Renegades
1946
Strange Affair
1944
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942
Slightly Honorable
1939
The Lady in Question
1940
Sons of the Legion
1938
Ladies in Retirement
1941
One Big Affair
1952
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990
Dangerous to Know
1938
Sudden Money
1939
Top of the World
1955
Artists and Models Abroad
1938
The Thrill of Brazil
1946
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003
Beyond the Sacramento
1940
Smuggler's Island
1951
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
1987
Glorious Technicolor
1998
A Matter of Diamonds
1968
Paris Honeymoon
1939
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
1985
It Happened in Paris
1952