Evelyn Keyes
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Keyes in 99 River Street
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| Born |
Evelyn Louise Keyes November 20, 1916 Port Arthur, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | July 4, 2008 (aged 91) Peppers Estate Care Home, Montecito, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Uterine cancer and Alzheimer's disease |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1938–1993 |
| Spouse(s) |
Barton Bainbridge (m. 1938; his death 1940) Charles Vidor (m. 1944; div. 1945) John Huston (m. 1946; div. 1950) Artie Shaw (m. 1957; div. 1985) |
| Partner(s) | Michael Todd (1953–1956) |
| Children | 1 |
Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.
Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents. As a teenager, Keyes took dancing lessons and performed for local clubs such as the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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 a minor role in Gone with the Wind (1939), that of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen.
Columbia Pictures signed her to a contract. In 1941, she played an 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 (1946). 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.
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