Evelyn Keyes

Actor · Died July 4, 2008, aged 91 · Port Arthur, Texas, USA

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.

Biography from TMDB.

Born: November 20, 1916
Died: July 4, 2008 (aged 91)
From: Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Works as: Actor
Titles: 27 on MovieCove · 53 credits in all
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Known for

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Filmography

53 credits, 27 with a MovieCove page; 10 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Wicked Stepmother(1989)
as Witch Instructor
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
A Return to Salem's Lot(1987)
as Mrs. Axel
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
Amazing Stories(1985)
Show 1 episode · as Evelyn Chumsky
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows
Murder, She Wrote(1984)
Show 1 episode · as Edna · as Sister Emily · as Wanda Polaski
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
A Matter of Diamonds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
as Mrs. Panzack
ITV Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
Show 1 episode · as Mrs. Panzack
Around the World in 80 Days(1956)
as Paris Tart
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
The Seven Year Itch(1955)
as Helen Sherman
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Top of the World(1955)
as Virgie Rayne
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Climax! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
Show 1 episode · as Drusilla Cayley
Hell's Half Acre(1954)
as Donna Williams
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
99 River Street(1953)
as Linda James
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Rough Shoot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)
as Cecily
It Happened in Paris (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)
as Patricia Moran
One Big Affair (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)
as Jean Harper
Iron Man(1951)
as Rose Warren Mason
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
The Prowler(1951)
as Susan Gilvray
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Smuggler's Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)
as Vivian Craig
The Killer That Stalked New York(1950)
as Sheila Bennet
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Lux Video Theatre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1950)
Show 1 episode · as Jane
Mrs. Mike (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1949)
as Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan
Mr. Soft Touch(1949)
as Jenny Jones
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Enchantment(1948)
as Grizel Dane
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
The Mating of Millie(1948)
as Millie McGonigle
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Johnny O'Clock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1947)
as Nancy Hobson
The Jolson Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1946)
as Julie Benson
The Thrill of Brazil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1946)
as Vicki Dean
Renegades (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1946)
as Hannah Brockway
A Thousand and One Nights(1945)
as Babs The Genie
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Strange Affair (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
as Jacqueline "Jack" Harrison
Nine Girls(1944)
as Mary O'Ryan
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
There's Something About a Soldier (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
as Carol Harkness
Dangerous Blondes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
as Jane Craig
The Desperadoes(1943)
as Allison McLeod
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Flight Lieutenant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
as Susie Thompson
The Adventures of Martin Eden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
as Ruth Morley
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
Actor
Ladies in Retirement (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
as Lucy
Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941)
as Bette Logan
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Face Behind the Mask(1941)
as Helen Williams
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Beyond the Sacramento (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
as Lynn Perry
Before I Hang(1940)
as Martha Garth
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
The Lady in Question(1940)
as Francois Morestan
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
Slightly Honorable(1939)
as Miss Vlissingen
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Gone with the Wind(1939)
as Suellen O'Hara
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Union Pacific(1939)
as Mrs. Calvin
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Sudden Money (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
as Mary Patterson
Paris Honeymoon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
as Village Girl (uncredited)
Artists and Models Abroad (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)
as Girl (uncredited)
Sons of the Legion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)
as Linda Lee
Men with Wings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)
as Nurse
Dangerous to Know(1938)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Buccaneer(1938)
as Madeleine
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films