Evelyn Keyes
Age: 91 | From: Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1916-11-21 22:08:13
Death: 2008-07-04 22:08:13
Aliases: Evelyn Louise Keyes
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 35
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Wanda Polaski
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Jane
Climax!
(1954) Drusilla Cayley
Gone with the Wind
(1939) Suellen O'Hara
Union Pacific
(1939) Mrs. Calvin
The Prowler
(1951) Susan Gilvray
99 River Street
(1953) Linda James
Before I Hang
(1940) Martha GarthActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Self | |
| 1998 | Self | |
| 1990 | Self | |
| 1989 | Witch Instructor | |
| Self | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| 1987 | Mrs. Axel | |
| Herself | ||
| 1985 | Evelyn Chumsky | |
| 1984 | Edna | |
| Sister Emily | ||
| Wanda Polaski | ||
| 1956 | Paris Tart | |
| 1955 | Helen Sherman | |
| Virgie Rayne | ||
| 1954 | Drusilla Cayley | |
| Donna Williams | ||
| 1953 | Linda James | |
| Cecily Paine | ||
| 1952 | Patricia Moran | |
| Jean Harper | ||
| 1951 | Rose Warren Mason | |
| Susan Gilvray | ||
| Vivian Craig | ||
| 1950 | Sheila Bennet | |
| Jane | ||
| 1949 | Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan | |
| Jenny Jones | ||
| 1948 | Grizel Dane | |
| Millie McGonigle | ||
| 1947 | Nancy Hobson | |
| 1946 | Julie Benson | |
| Vicki Dean | ||
| Hannah Brockway | ||
| 1945 | The Genie | |
| 1944 | Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison | |
| Mary O'Ryan | ||
| 1943 | Carol Harkness | |
| Jane Craig | ||
| Allison McLeod | ||
| 1942 | Susie Thompson | |
| Ruth Morley | ||
| 1941 | N/A | |
| Lucy | ||
| Bette Logan | ||
| Helen Williams | ||
| 1940 | Lynn Perry | |
| Martha Garth | ||
| Francois Morestan | ||
| 1939 | Miss Vlissingen | |
| Suellen O'Hara | ||
| Mrs. Calvin | ||
| Mary Patterson | ||
| Village Girl (uncredited) | ||
| 1938 | Girl (uncredited) | |
| Linda Lee | ||
| Nurse | ||
| Madeleine | ||
| Self - Actress and John Huston's Wife | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
