Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes

Birthday: 1916-11-20

Deathday: 2008-07-04

Place of birth: Port Arthur, Texas, USA

Also known as: Evelyn Louise Keyes

imdb_id: nm0450810

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Score: 8.0

Gone with the Wind

Score: 7.9

The Seven Year Itch

Score: 7.1

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Score: 7.0

99 River Street

Score: 6.8

The Prowler

Score: 6.8

The Mating of Millie

Score: 6.8

Mr. Soft Touch

Score: 6.8

Glorious Technicolor

Score: 6.7

The Jolson Story

Score: 6.6

Around the World in Eighty Days

Score: 6.6

The Lady in Question

Score: 6.6

Ladies in Retirement

Score: 6.5

Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

Score: 6.5

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

Score: 6.5

Union Pacific

Score: 6.5

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Score: 6.5

The Face Behind the Mask

Score: 6.5

The Buccaneer

Score: 6.4

Enchantment

Score: 6.4

Top of the World

Score: 6.3

Strange Affair

Score: 6.2

Rough Shoot

Score: 6.2

Johnny O'Clock

Score: 6.2

Dangerous to Know

Score: 6.1

Iron Man

Score: 6.1

Before I Hang

Score: 6.1

The Killer That Stalked New York

Score: 6.1

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Score: 6.0

One Big Affair

Score: 6.0

Flight Lieutenant

Score: 6.0

Dangerous Blondes

Score: 6.0

A Return to Salem's Lot

Score: 5.9

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Score: 5.9

The Thrill of Brazil

Score: 5.8

Renegades

Score: 5.8

A Thousand and One Nights

Score: 5.8

The Desperadoes

Score: 5.7

Hell's Half Acre

Score: 5.5

Nine Girls

Score: 5.3

Sudden Money

Score: 5.0

Men with Wings

Score: 5.0

Sons of the Legion

Score: 5.0

There's Something About a Soldier

Score: 4.8

Slightly Honorable

Score: 4.7

Artists and Models Abroad

Score: 4.5

Wicked Stepmother

Score: 4.5

Smuggler's Island

Score: 4.3

Paris Honeymoon

Score: 3.0

Mrs. Mike

Score: 2.0

Beyond the Sacramento

Score: 0.0

A Matter of Diamonds

Score: 0.0

It Happened in Paris

Score: 0.0

Biography: Humphrey Bogart

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Amazing Stories

Score: 7.5

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Climax!

Score: 3.3