Evelyn Keyes
Acting • Born 1916-11-20 – Died 2008-07-04
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
62 credits
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Suellen O'Hara
The Seven Year Itch
Movie • 1955
Helen Sherman
The Prowler
Movie • 1951
Susan Gilvray
The Jolson Story
Movie • 1946
Julie Benson
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie • 1950
Sheila Bennet
Enchantment
Movie • 1948
Grizel Dane
Before I Hang
Movie • 1940
Martha Garth
The Face Behind the Mask
Movie • 1941
Helen Williams
Hell's Half Acre
Movie • 1954
Donna Williams
Ladies in Retirement
Movie • 1941
Lucy
99 River Street
Movie • 1953
Linda James
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Movie • 1941
Bette Logan
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie • 2003
Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
Johnny O'Clock
Movie • 1947
Nancy Hobson
Mr. Soft Touch
Movie • 1949
Jenny Jones
Iron Man
Movie • 1951
Rose Warren Mason
Dangerous Blondes
Movie • 1943
Jane Craig
A Thousand and One Nights
Movie • 1945
Babs The Genie
The Lady in Question
Movie • 1940
Francois Morestan
Flight Lieutenant
Movie • 1942
Susie Thompson
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Cecily
One Big Affair
Movie • 1952
Jean Harper
Slightly Honorable
Movie • 1939
Miss Vlissingen
Glorious Technicolor
Movie • 1998
Self
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Movie • 2003
Self
Top of the World
Movie • 1955
Virgie Rayne
The Mating of Millie
Movie • 1948
Millie McGonigle
Renegades
Movie • 1946
Hannah Brockway
Sons of the Legion
Movie • 1938
Linda Lee
Men with Wings
Movie • 1938
Nurse
Artists and Models Abroad
Movie • 1938
Girl (uncredited)
Sudden Money
Movie • 1939
Mary Patterson
Paris Honeymoon
Movie • 1939
Village Girl (uncredited)
There's Something About a Soldier
Movie • 1943
Carol Harkness
The Thrill of Brazil
Movie • 1946
Vicki Dean
Union Pacific
Movie • 1939
Mrs. Calvin
Strange Affair
Movie • 1944
Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
Wicked Stepmother
Movie • 1989
Witch Instructor
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Movie • 1942
Ruth Morley
Smuggler's Island
Movie • 1951
Vivian Craig
The Desperadoes
Movie • 1943
Allison McLeod
It Happened in Paris
Movie • 1952
Patricia Moran
A Matter of Diamonds
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Panzack
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Movie • 1988
Self
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Paris Tart
Mrs. Mike
Movie • 1949
Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
Beyond the Sacramento
Movie • 1940
Lynn Perry
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie • 1990
Self
A Return to Salem's Lot
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Axel
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
Movie • 1987
Self
Nine Girls
Movie • 1944
Mary O'Ryan
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self
The Buccaneer
Movie • 1938
Madeleine
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Movie • 1941
Dangerous to Know
Movie • 1938
Party Guest (uncredited)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
Movie • 1985
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Edna
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Jane
Climax!
TV • 1954
Drusilla Cayley
Amazing Stories
TV • 1985
Evelyn Chumsky
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Wanda Polaski
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Sister Emily