Evelyn Keyes
Born
November 20, 1916
Died
July 4, 2008 (91 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Port Arthur, Texas, USA
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
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Self
2003
Glorious Technicolor
Self
1998
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
1990
Wicked Stepmother
Witch Instructor
1989
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self
1988
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Self
1987
A Return to Salem's Lot
Mrs. Axel
1987
Amazing Stories
Evelyn Chumsky · (1 episode)
1985
Murder, She Wrote
Edna · (1 episode)
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Wanda Polaski · (1 episode)
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Sister Emily · (1 episode)
1984
A Matter of Diamonds
Mrs. Panzack
1968
Around the World in Eighty Days
Paris Tart
1956
The Seven Year Itch
Helen Sherman
1955
Top of the World
Virgie Rayne
1955
Climax!
Drusilla Cayley · (1 episode)
1954
Hell's Half Acre
Donna Williams
1954
99 River Street
Linda James
1953
Rough Shoot
Cecily
1953
It Happened in Paris
Patricia Moran
1952
One Big Affair
Jean Harper
1952
Iron Man
Rose Warren Mason
1951
The Prowler
Susan Gilvray
1951
Smuggler's Island
Vivian Craig
1951
The Killer That Stalked New York
Sheila Bennet
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Jane · (1 episode)
1950
Mrs. Mike
Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
1949
Mr. Soft Touch
Jenny Jones
1949
Enchantment
Grizel Dane
1948
The Mating of Millie
Millie McGonigle
1948
Johnny O'Clock
Nancy Hobson
1947
The Jolson Story
Julie Benson
1946
The Thrill of Brazil
Vicki Dean
1946
Renegades
Hannah Brockway
1946
A Thousand and One Nights
Babs The Genie
1945
Strange Affair
Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
1944
Nine Girls
Mary O'Ryan
1944
There's Something About a Soldier
Carol Harkness
1943
Dangerous Blondes
Jane Craig
1943
The Desperadoes
Allison McLeod
1943
Flight Lieutenant
Susie Thompson
1942
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Ruth Morley
1942
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Ladies in Retirement
Lucy
1941
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Bette Logan
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
Helen Williams
1941
Beyond the Sacramento
Lynn Perry
1940
Before I Hang
Martha Garth
1940
The Lady in Question
Francois Morestan
1940
Slightly Honorable
Miss Vlissingen
1939
Gone with the Wind
Suellen O'Hara
1939
Union Pacific
Mrs. Calvin
1939
Sudden Money
Mary Patterson
1939
Paris Honeymoon
Village Girl (uncredited)
1939
Artists and Models Abroad
Girl (uncredited)
1938
Sons of the Legion
Linda Lee
1938
Men with Wings
Nurse
1938
Dangerous to Know
Party Guest (uncredited)
1938
The Buccaneer
Madeleine
1938