Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes
Born	Evelyn Louise Keyes
Years active	1938 - 1989
Spouse(s)	Barton Bainbridge (1938-1940) Charles Vidor (1943-1945) John Huston (1946-1950) Artie Shaw (1957-1985)

Evelyn Keyes (b. November 20 1916, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress.

Film career

A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939). Keyes' last important 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.

Personal life

She was married to Barton Bainbridge from 1938 until his death in 1940. Later she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943 - 1945), actor/director John Huston (23 July 1946 - 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957 - 1985). Keyes said of her many relationships, "I was always interested in the man of the moment, and there were many such moments". While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

In her 1977 biography she writes of the personal cost she paid having an abortion just before Gone with the Wind was to begin filming. The experience left her unable to have children. She wrote her drinking later in life was made worse for the guilt she felt in allowing the studio to force her into "killing her baby".

Her autobiography, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977. Keyes has expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film.

She currently resides in Santa Barbara, California. She is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.

Filmography

• The Buccaneer (1938) as Madeleine
• Dangerous to Know (1938) (uncredited)
• Men with Wings (1938) (uncredited) Nurse
• Sons of the Legion (1938) as Linda Lee
• Artists and Models Abroad (1938) aka Stranded in Paris (UK) (uncredited)
• Paris Honeymoon (1939) (uncredited) as Village Girl
• Sudden Money (1939) as Mary Patterson
• Union Pacific (1939) as Mrs. Calvin
• Gone with the Wind (1939) as Suellen O'Hara
• Slightly Honorable (1940) as Miss Vlissingen
• The Lady in Question (1940) as Francois Morestan
• Before I Hang (1940) as Martha Garth
• Beyond the Sacramento (1940) aka Power of Justice (UK) as Lynn Perry
• The Face Behind the Mask (1941) aka Behind the Mask (UK) as Helen Williams
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as Bette Logan
• Ladies in Retirement (1941) as Lucy
• The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) aka High Seas (USA reissue title) as Ruth Morley
• Flight Lieutenant (1942) as Susie Thompson
• The Desperadoes (1943) as Allison McLeod
• Dangerous Blondes (1943) as Jane Craig
• There's Something About a Soldier (1943) as Carol Harkness
• Nine Girls (1944) as Mary O'Ryan
• Strange Affair (1944) as Jacqueline Harrison
• A Thousand and One Nights (1945) aka 1001 Nights as the Genie
• Renegades (1946) as Hannah Brockway
• The Thrill of Brazil (1946) as Vicki Dean
• The Jolson Story (1946) as Julie Benson
• Johnny O'Clock (1947) as Nancy Hobson
• The Mating of Millie (1948) as Millie McGonigle
• Enchantment (1948) as Grizel Dane
• Mr. Soft Touch (1949) aka House of Settlement (UK) as Jenny Jones
• Mrs. Mike (1949) as Kathy Flannigan
• The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) aka Frightened City (UK) (USA copyright title) as Sheila Bennet
• Smuggler's Island (1951) as Vivian Craig
• The Prowler (1951) as Susan Gilvray
• Iron Man (1951) as Rose Warren
• One Big Affair (1952) as Jean Harper
• C'est arrivé à Paris (1953) aka It Happened in Paris (USA) as Patricia Moran
• Rough Shoot (1953) aka Shoot First (USA) as Cecily Paine
• 99 River Street (1953) aka Crosstown as Linda James
• Hell's Half Acre (1954) as Donna Williams
• The Seven Year Itch (1955) as Helen Sherman
• Top of the World (1955) as Virgie Rayne (Mrs. Gannon)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) as The Flirt
• Across 110th Street (1972) cameo
• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) as Mrs. Axel
• Wicked Stepmother (1989) as Witch Instructor

External links

• New York Times Biography
• Evelyn Keyes at IMDb