Evelyn Keyes
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1916-11-20
Day of Death
2008-07-04 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Evelyn 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.
Known For
Acting
(2003)
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
as Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife
(2003)
(1998)
Glorious Technicolor
as Self
(1990)
(1989)
Wicked Stepmother
as Witch Instructor
(1988)
(1988)
(1987)
A Return to Salem's Lot
as Mrs. Axel
(1987)
(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)
Hell's Half Acre
as Donna Williams
(1953)
99 River Street
as Linda James
(1953)
Rough Shoot
as Cecily
(1952)
One Big Affair
as Jean Harper
(1952)
It Happened in Paris
as Patricia Moran
(1951)
The Prowler
as Susan Gilvray
(1951)
Iron Man
as Rose Warren Mason
(1951)
Smuggler's Island
as Vivian Craig
(1950)
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Sheila Bennet
(1949)
Mr. Soft Touch
as Jenny Jones
(1949)
Mrs. Mike
as Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
(1948)
Enchantment
as Grizel Dane
(1948)
The Mating of Millie
as Millie McGonigle
(1947)
Johnny O'Clock
as Nancy Hobson
(1946)
Renegades
as Hannah Brockway
(1946)
The Jolson Story
as Julie Benson
(1946)
The Thrill of Brazil
as Vicki Dean
(1945)
A Thousand and One Nights
as Babs The Genie
(1944)
Strange Affair
as Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
(1944)
Nine Girls
as Mary O'Ryan
(1943)
The Desperadoes
as Allison McLeod
(1943)
Dangerous Blondes
as Jane Craig
(1943)
There's Something About a Soldier
as Carol Harkness
(1942)
The Adventures of Martin Eden
as Ruth Morley
(1942)
Flight Lieutenant
as Susie Thompson
(1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
as Bette Logan
(1941)
The Face Behind the Mask
as Helen Williams
(1941)
Ladies in Retirement
as Lucy
(1941)
(1940)
Before I Hang
as Martha Garth
(1940)
The Lady in Question
as Francois Morestan
(1940)
Beyond the Sacramento
as Lynn Perry
(1939)
Gone with the Wind
as Suellen O'Hara
(1939)
Union Pacific
as Mrs. Calvin
(1939)
Sudden Money
as Mary Patterson
(1939)
Slightly Honorable
as Miss Vlissingen
(1939)
Paris Honeymoon
as Village Girl (uncredited)
(1938)
Artists and Models Abroad
as Girl (uncredited)
(1938)
The Buccaneer
as Madeleine
(1938)
Men with Wings
as Nurse
(1938)
Sons of the Legion
as Linda Lee