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Evelyn Keyes
Actor
Died July 4, 2008 (91 years)
Evelyn Louise Keyes 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
| 1989 | Wicked Stepmother · as Witch Instructor |
| 1987 | A Return to Salem's Lot · as Mrs. Axel |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories (TV Series) · as Evelyn Chumsky |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Wanda Polaski |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Mrs. Parker |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Mrs. Panzack |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days · as Paris Tart |
| 1955 | The Seven Year Itch · as Helen Sherman |
| 1954 | Hell's Half Acre · as Donna Williams |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Drusilla Cayley |
| 1953 | 99 River Street · as Linda James |
| 1952 | It Happened in Paris · as Patricia Moran |
| 1951 | The Prowler · as Susan Gilvray |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Jane |
| 1948 | Enchantment · as Grizel Dane |
| 1948 | The Mating of Millie · as Millie McGonigle |
| 1945 | A Thousand and One Nights · as The Genie |
| 1943 | The Desperadoes · as Allison McLeod |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan · as Bette Logan |
| 1941 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 · as Unknown |
| 1940 | Before I Hang · as Martha Garth |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind · as Suellen O'Hara |
| 1939 | Union Pacific · as Mrs. Calvin |
| 1939 | Slightly Honorable · as Miss Vlissingen |
| 1938 | The Buccaneer · as Madeleine |